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The Committee notes the Government’s detailed report and the partial response to its previous comments. Further to its previous comments, it would be grateful if the Government would provide additional information on the following points.

Labour inspection and child labour. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate exactly what the penalties are for breach of the legislation on child labour and of the implementing measures, and to provide copies of any relevant texts.

Men and women labour inspectors (Article 8 of the Convention). The Committee notes with interest the even distribution of men and women in the staff of the labour inspectorate and it would be grateful if the Government would indicate whether women labour inspectors are assigned, by law or in practice, to specific tasks or to the inspection of establishments with a majority of female workers, if such establishments exist.

Information and statistics of inspection activities (Articles 14 and 21). The Committee notes with interest the detailed statistics in the annual labour inspection report for 2002 on labour inspection visits by branch of industrial activity, industrial accidents, geographical distribution of the labour inspectorate staff, the establishments and workers covered, and the penalties imposed. The Committee welcomes the consistent decline in occupational accidents among insured workers, and it would be grateful if the Government would provide information, together with the texts of any laws or regulations, on the manner in which effect is given to Article 14, which provides that the labour inspectorate shall be notified of industrial accidents and cases of occupational disease in such cases and in such manner as may be prescribed by national legislation.

The Government is also asked to ensure that, in future, the annual inspection report is transmitted within the period prescribed by Article 20 of the Convention and that it contains statistics of cases of occupational disease (Article 21).