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The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its direct request of 2000, which read as follows:

The Committee notes the Government’s report which relates to the period ending in October 1999. It notes once again the indication to the effect that reports for submission to the ILO are sent in their final version to the representative organizations for comment. In this regard, the Committee is bound to insist again that the obligation to establish consultations in accordance with Article 5, paragraph  1(d), of the Convention goes beyond the obligation to communicate reports under article 23, paragraph 2, of the ILO Constitution, since it refers to consultations on any question that may arise in these reports. The Committee particularly wishes to recall that, in its latest General Survey on the Convention and Recommendation No. 152, it indicated that the comments on these reports that employers’ and workers’ organizations may transmit to the Office, cannot replace the consultations which have to be held during the preparation of the reports (paragraph 92).

The Committee trusts that these clarifications will be taken into account in order to give full effect to the Convention and that the Government’s next report will provide more detailed information on consultations that have been held not only on questions which may arise in the reports to be submitted to the ILO but also on the other matters listed in Article 5(1), on the frequency of these consultations and on the nature of all resulting reports or recommendations. In this regard, the Committee wishes to draw the Government’s attention to the fact that certain subjects mentioned (items on the agenda of the Conference, submission of instruments to the competent authorities, reports to be submitted to the ILO) entail annual consultation while others (re-examination of unratified Conventions and Recommendations, proposals for the denunciation of ratified Conventions) require less frequent examination.

Finally, the Committee once again expresses the hope that detailed information will be supplied on the application of the Convention in Zanzibar.