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With reference to its previous comments, which it has been making since 1962, the Committee notes with regret that the draft Decree drawn up during the 1978 direct contacts has not yet been adopted. In its reports, the Government indicates that draft texts have been drawn up to bring the national law and practice into conformity with certain Conventions, including Convention No. 18, and that the constitutional procedure for the adoption of these draft texts has been commenced and is following its course before the competent bodies. These draft texts will be supplied to the Committee in due time. The Committee notes this statement. It can only express its regret at the delay in the adoption of the Decree in question. The Committee trusts that measures will be taken to bring the list of occupational diseases annexed to Ordinance No. 59-60 of 1959 into conformity with Article 2 of the Convention by the deletion of the limitative element in the list of pathological manifestations which may be caused by lead and mercury poisoning and by the addition, among the kinds of work which may lead to anthrax infection, the operations of "loading and unloading or transport of merchandise" in general. [The Government is asked to supply full particulars to the Conference at its 77th Session.]