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The Committee notes the Government's reports for 1996 and 1998. It refers to its previous comments and again reiterates the requirement to publish and communicate to the Office, within the prescribed time limits established under Article 26 of the Convention, annual labour inspection reports containing the information enumerated under Article 27 and recalls that the Government may avail itself of ILO technical assistance for the correct application of these provisions. The annual reports contain information enabling, on the one hand, the Government to regularly evaluate the overall progress in the labour inspection system and to adopt, where necessary, measures to improve its effectiveness and, on the other hand, provide the Committee with sound information to assess the manner in which the Convention is applied and to propose a more appropriate application of the Convention, where necessary. However, the Committee notes that, although the Government's report contains a statement of intent, no inspection report has been transmitted to the ILO since 1996. Moreover, the 1996 report contained only partial responses to the information required by the relevant Articles of this Convention and of the Labour Inspection Convention, 1947 (and Protocol, 1995) (No. 81). Statistics concerning the undertakings which require inspection visits and the number of workers employed in these undertakings had been omitted from the report despite their importance in assessing the appropriateness of the means made available to labour inspectors for the discharge of their duties. The Committee is bound once again to request the Government to regularly publish and transmit annual reports on the activities of the labour inspection service and reiterates its proposal to the Government to avail itself of the Office's technical assistance to establish the structures to enable the correct application of this Convention and Convention No. 81.