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With reference to its previous comment concerning the application of Article 4 of the Convention, the Committee takes due note of the detailed information supplied by the Government in its report with regard to the need for the trade unions to give their consent to regulations respecting the living and working conditions of workers. It also notes that, according to the Government, the measures adopted recently to freeze wages were not the result of a legislative intervention but of a high-level decision based on the co-ordination of interests.

The Government also indicates that it is going to revise the wage-fixing machinery, which will be replaced by agreements concluded according to the results of the co-ordination of interests and that a national co-ordinating council of interests, of tripartite composition, was set up on 14 October 1988 and will deal with matters of economic and wages policy.

The Committee requests the Government to continue supplying information in its next report on the implementation of Article 4 of the Convention (the number of collective agreements, their duration, the workers and sectors concerned, etc.).