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The Committee notes the Government's reports provided in 1994 and 1995 and the information supplied in reply to its previous direct request. It notes with interest the establishment of the Tripartite National Committee, and particularly the subcommittee for the ILO, which it hopes will make it possible to give fuller effect to the Convention. It would be grateful if the Government would provide further information on the following points.

Article 2 of the Convention. Please describe the manner in which these recently established consultation procedures were determined and indicate any consultations which took place for this purpose with the representative organizations. Please provide further information on the working of these procedures.

Article 4, paragraph 1. Please provide information on the measures taken to give effect to this provision, which lays down that the competent authority shall assume responsibility for the administrative support of the consultation procedures provided for by the Convention.

Article 4, paragraph 2. Please describe any arrangements made for the financing of any necessary training of participants in the consultation procedures.

Article 5, paragraph 1. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in its previous comments. It notes that the subcommittee for the ILO meets with the National Committee once a month for consultations on the matters covered by this provision and that meetings have been held recently on replies to questionnaires concerning items on the agenda of the ILO Conference (point (a)) and on the proposals to be made by the competent authority in connection with the submission of Conventions and Recommendations (point (b)).

Please provide full and detailed information on these consultations, on any consultations held during the period covered by the next report on the same matters, as well as on each of the matters covered by points (c), (d) and (e), with an indication of the frequency of the consultations (paragraph 2) and the nature of any reports or recommendations made as a result of these consultations.

Article 6. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would indicate whether it is planned, taking into account the new measures adopted for the fuller application of the Convention, to issue an annual report on the working of the consultation procedures. If so, please provide a copy the above report with each of the future reports on the application of the Convention or, if it is decided not to issue such a report, provide information on the tripartite consultations held on this question.

Finally, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide in its next report the information requested under points III to VI of the report form.