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1. The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its report.

2. With reference to its previous observation, the Committee notes with interest that the Government brought the Committee's comments on the supposedly discriminatory clauses as regards the remuneration of women to the attention of the signatories to the collective agreements in the tobacco and clothing sectors. The Committee also notes that the parties concerned considered that the agreements do not contain clauses which are discriminatory in spirit; and that in any event the fact that the Committee interpreted them in this way is due to faulty legal wording of the texts in force, and that the parties will endeavour to correct this by rewording the new collective agreements for the tobacco and clothing sectors. In this connection, the Committee refers to paragraphs 226 to 238 of its 1986 General Survey on Equal Remuneration in which it indicates the role of the authorities in supervising the legality of the clauses in collective agreements and the inclusion of the principle of equal remuneration in collective agreements. The Committee hopes that the Government will soon take adequate measures in this respect and requests it to continue supplying information on the progress achieved through the rewording of the new collective agreements in the tobacco and clothing sectors, and on any other measure that has been taken or is envisaged to guarantee the application of the principle of equal remuneration.