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1. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes with satisfaction that the Fundamental Act of 23 December 1990 provides in its section 8 that no one may be privileged or placed at a disadvantage by reason of his or her birth, race, ethnic origin, language, beliefs and political, philosophical or religious opinions and in its section 18 that no one may be placed at a disadvantage at work by reason of his or her sex, race, ethnic origin or opinions, in accordance with the principle of non-discrimination stated by the Convention.

2. In its previous observation, the Committee noted that section 20 of Ordinance No. 017/PRG/SGG of 5 March 1987, dealing with the general principles of the public service, prohibited discrimination only on the grounds of philosophical and religious opinions and sex, and did not include the other grounds listed in Article 1(a) of the Convention, namely race, colour, political opinion, national extraction and social origin. The Committee consequently expressed the hope that the new public service regulations would cover all the grounds of discrimination that are set out in the Convention. The Committee notes the Government's statement that the new public service regulations have been adopted and are applied. The Committee asks the Government to supply the text of the above-mentioned regulations.