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The Committee notes the Government’s report and the information replying in part to its previous comments. It also notes the Factories and Works Act, as revised in 1996, and the Pneumoconiosis Act. Noting that neither the organizational charts for labour administration systems nor the information on budget allocations for 2002 for human resources and labour administration have been sent, the Committee hopes that they will be forwarded as soon as possible. It requests the Government also to provide all available information on the procedure for the adoption of the labour amendment Bill currently before Parliament together with a copy of the new recommendation adopted in June 2002 referred to in the report, whereby the Government, the employers and the workers agreed to promote cooperatives.

The Committee further notes from a government internet source that, in recent years, the informal sector of the economy has developed rapidly as the formal sector has dwindled. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate the measures taken to adapt the labour administration to the structure of the economy, providing particulars of the manner in which effect is given in practice to Article 7, paragraph 2(b), of the Convention.

Lastly, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would supply, in accordance with the requirements of Part IV of the report form on the Convention, extracts of reports or other periodic information submitted by the main labour administration bodies and referred to in Paragraph 20 of Recommendation No. 158 which supplements the Convention.