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The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its reports in reply to its previous comments. It also notes that the Inter-Union Assembly of Workers-National Convention of Workers (PIT-CNT) has made new comments on the application of the Convention. In particular, according to this organization, certain categories of workers were deprived of maternity protection as a result of the adoption of legislation in 2002. The comments of the PIT-CNT were received by the Office on 6 October 2003 and transmitted to the Government on 20 October 2003. As the Government states that it intends to inform the Committee in the near future of the impact of the above new legislation on the rights of these categories of workers to maternity benefits, the Committee has decided to postpone its examination of all the pending issues until its next session.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2004.]