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1. The Committee refers to its observation and to its direct request of 1989, and hopes that the Government will provide the information requested in the latter, particularly with regard to the available data concerning the number of dockworkers in the registers established and maintained in accordance with Article 3 of the Convention and on any variation in their numbers since the dissolution of the autonomous body, the Dock Work Organisation (point V of the report form).

2. Article 4. Please continue to provide information on the results of the measures to attenuate the detrimental effects on dockworkers of a reduction in strength of the registers, both in ports operated in the general interest and in those operated by an autonomous community. The Government may wish to refer the provisions of Paragraphs 17 to 19 of the Dock Work Recommendation, 1973 (No. 145), the text of which is appended to the report form.

3. Point IV of the report form. Please provide the text of the decision of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court, of 23 September 1985, nullifying Royal Decree No. 2302 of 24 October 1980, and the Order of the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Security of 16 June 1981.