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Further to its observation, the Committee asks the Government to attach to its next report copies of new development plans and programmes containing specific provisions intended to implement an active policy designed to promote full, productive and freely chosen employment (Part I of the report form). Please also provide indications on the following points:

1. The Committee noted in 1987 that a "national committee to safeguard and protect employment" (at the national level) and "wilayas" (at the local level) had been established. Please describe the type of activities undertaken by these bodies, their objectives and the results obtained. Please supply, in so far as possible, statistical data on the employment situation in the various regions of the country.

2. Please specify the results obtained in terms of the creation of permanent jobs and the acquisition of occupational skills. More generally, please indicate the measures that have been taken to respond to the needs of particular categories of workers such as women and disabled workers.

3. As regards population policy, the Government states that mastering population growth is one of its major concerns and that it has approved a programme to implement many and diverse activities, which the Committee notes with interest, that follows the direction of the suggestions set out in Part II of Recommendation No. 169. The Committee also notes the efforts made by the Government as regards the voluntary repatriation of migrant workers, which is also dealt with in Recommendation No. 169 (Part X). The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue supplying information on the results of such activities and, more generally, on population and immigration policies that are pursued and their direct and indirect impact on the supply of labour and on employment.

4. The Government indicates in its report that all the social partners have been consulted in the context of appropriate institutions as regards the preparation, adoption and implementation of the development plan, and particularly its "employment" section. In its previous comments, the Committee noted the development of the system of incentives and the measures that had been taken in consultation with employers and workers' representatives. It now notes the adoption of Decree No. 88-221 of 2 November 1988 setting the conditions for the award of productivity bonuses and the machinery to link wages to production. It would be grateful if the Government would continue supplying information on changes in regulations and their application in practice, including details on how these questions and, more generally, employment policy matters through consultations with, for example, representatives of the National Chamber of Commerce and other representatives of private employers and other persons concerned, such as those employed in the rural sector (Article 3 of the Convention).

5. The Committee notes with interest that, as a result of the technical assistance provided by the ILO within the context of project ALG/86/028 assessing training and employment systems, the administrative structures of National Manpower Office (ONAMO) have been modified to make the body, in the Government's opinion, an employment promotion instrument. Please supply details on the work of the ONAMO in the field of employment policy, particularly as regards the placement of workers and activities to compensate between "wilayas" on the basis of the vacancies notified and the applications received. Please also refer to the comments made under Convention No. 88. Please indicate the action that has been taken as a consequence of other recommendations made by the ILO as regards employment policy and the effect given to the suggestions made by the advisory missions undertaken since the project ALG/86/028 ended (Part V of the report form).