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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 2002 direct request which raised the following main points:

The Committee recalls that the Convention requires the formulation and application of "a policy designed to promote, by methods appropriate to national conditions and practice and by stages as necessary, the granting of paid educational leave". The Committee therefore trusts that in its next report the Government will include other information and will provide the texts (government statements, etc.) related to the formulation of such a policy (Article 2 of the Convention).

Articles 3 and 10. Please indicate the procedures for granting paid educational leave, and particularly on the level of the benefits paid to persons benefiting from such leave.

Article 4. Please indicate the extent to which paid educational leave has contributed to achieving the objective of training one million workers annually until 2005 and describe the coordination of paid educational leave with the general vocational education and training policy.

Please also indicate the steps which have been taken to coordinate the national policy on paid educational leave with general policies on hours of work. Please also describe the extent to which the implementation of the national policy on paid educational leave takes account of seasonal variations in the hours or volume of work.

Article 7. Please provide any available information on the amounts specifically allocated to paid educational leave during the period covered by the next report.

Article 9. Please describe any measures which have been taken to grant paid educational leave to workers in small enterprises, to rural or other workers residing in isolated areas, shift workers and to workers with family responsibilities.