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Articles 10, 11 and 16 of the Convention. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes from the information supplied by the Government that, despite a number of recent improvements in the application of these Articles of the Convention, the problem of material means and qualified staff has not been solved. It trusts that the Government will do its utmost to increase labour inspectorate staff and provide them with the necessary material means (suitably equipped offices and necessary transport facilities) so that all the duties conferred on inspectors, and in particular visits of inspection to workplaces, may be discharged under better conditions.

Article 12, paragraph 2, and Article 13, paragraph 2(b). For many years, the Committee has been drawing the Government's attention to the need to empower inspectors, on the one hand to decide whether or not they should notify the employer of their presence at the workplace and, on the other, to make or have made orders requiring measures with immediate executory force in the event of imminent danger to the health or safety of the workers. In its report, the Government indicates that a committee has been established to revise the Labour and Social Welfare Code with a view to bringing national legislation into conformity with these Articles of the Convention. In this connection, the Committee recalls that in its 1987 report, the Government stated that the Code had already been revised with the assistance of the ILO and would shortly be adopted. In view of this fact, the Committee can only urge the Government once again to ensure that the necessary measures are taken to secure compliance with the Convention on the above points without delay.

Articles 20 and 21. The Committee reiterates the hope that the Government will be in a position to ensure that, in future, annual inspection reports are drawn up containing information on all the subjects listed under Article 21. It trusts that these reports which are essential at both national and international levels to an assessment of the practical results of the activities of the inspection services, will be published and communicated to the ILO within the period fixed in Article 20.