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The Committee notes with regret that the Government's report contains no reply to its previous comments. It hopes that the next report will supply full particulars on the points raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

Article 6, paragraph 1(c). The Committee asks the Government to state whether the labour inspection service has instructions to bring to the notice of the competent authority defects or abuses not specifically covered by existing legal provisions and to submit it proposals on the improvement of laws and regulations.

Articles 13 and 16, paragraph 3. The Committee requests the Government to enclose with its next report the texts of the instructions given to the officials of the labour inspectorate, to which it referred in its first report, instructions providing, among other things, for (a) collaboration between the inspectors and the employers' and workers' occupational organisations, and (b) the freedom of the inspectors to decide whether or not to inform those in charge of agricultural workplaces of their visits.

Article 17. Please state in what cases and conditions and under what provisions the labour inspection services in agriculture are associated in the preventive control provided for in this Article of the Convention.

Article 18. Please indicate the provisions in laws or regulations conferring upon labour inspectors the powers provided for in paragraph 2(a) and (b) of this Article and the legal means at their disposal for exercising these powers effectively. Furthermore, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate, if appropriate, the authority recognised as competent under paragraph 3 of this Article and the procedure followed in this case. Lastly, it asks the Government to state how effect is given to paragraph 4 of this Article.

Article 19, paragraph 2. Please state whether labour inspectors in agriculture are associated with enquiries on the spot into the causes of the most serious occupational accidents or occupational diseases.

Articles 26 and 27. The Committee notes that the report on the activities of the inspection service concerning labour law in agriculture during 1986, to which the Government refers in its report, has not reached the ILO. It hopes that this report and those for 1987 and 1988 will be communicated in the near future and that they will contain information on all thes subjects listed under Article 27.