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Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes with regret that no progress has been made towards the adoption of proposed legislation regulating public contracts, the Bill of which the Government's report first mentioned in 1983.

It also notes that the Government refers in its latest reports to sections 2 and 3 of the Labour Code (Act of 28 February 1967) defining, respectively, "the worker" and "the employer". As the Committee has already pointed out in its earlier comments, the fact that general labour legislation applies without distinction to all workers does not release a government from the obligation under this Convention to ensure the inclusion in the public contracts specified in Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Convention of appropriate labour clauses so as to guarantee that the conditions of work (including wages) of workers employed under public contracts are not less favourable than those established for work of the same character in that trade or industry in the same region, in accordance with Article 2.

The Committee therefore requests the Government to take necessary measures to ensure the application of the Convention, through legislation or otherwise, and to report on any progress made.