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The Committee notes that the Government's report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee notes the Government's report covering the period up to September, 1998. It requests the Government to provide further information on a certain number of points.

Article 6 of the Convention. The Committee notes the content of Decree No. 10/96, dated 5 April 1996, and in particular, the scale of salaries of the public officials. Please indicate what salaries correspond to the positions on the different levels of the system of labour inspection. Please also indicate the amount of the average annual wage in Angola.

Article 8. Please indicate the current percentage of women appointed to the inspection staff to each of the levels of the labour inspection.

Article 9. The Committee would be grateful if the Government could provide information concerning rules or regulations governing the participation of experts and specialists in the work of inspection. Please also indicate whether technical experts and specialists participate in the inspection visits, and the forms of their collaboration with labour inspectors.

Article 10. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the current number of labour inspectors and the measures taken or envisaged in order to increase the number of labour inspectors in the future. Please also indicate the distribution of the inspection staff among the capital and particular regions.

Article 11, paragraph 1. The Committee asks the Government to provide information about the average number of inspectors per car (or other vehicle) in the country and about the distribution of the total number of cars among the capital and particular regions of the country.

Article 14. Please indicate whether the legislation of Angola provides for the notification to the labour inspectorate of industrial accidents and cases of occupational disease and what is the procedure for such notification.

Article 15. The Committee asks the Government to provide information on the practical application of paragraph (a) of Article 15 of the Convention and, in particular, the criteria and the procedure for its enforcement.

Article 16. The Committee asks the Government to indicate: (i) the total number of workplaces liable to inspection; (ii) the number of workplaces inspected during the latest reporting period; and (iii) the usual period between two consecutive planned inspections at each single workplace. Please also describe the manner in which the inspection visits are conducted in practice.

Article 20. The Committee notes the statistical information about the work of the labour inspection in 1994 and in the first half of 1995 and asks the Government to indicate whether it was officially published and what is the procedure for access to such report by an interested party. The Committee asks the Government to provide a copy of such report within the time limit set forth by paragraph 3 of Article 20 of the Convention.

Article 21. The Committee asks the Government to take into consideration that the annual report published by the central inspection authority should deal in particular with the subjects listed in Article 21 of the Convention, including, but not limited to, statistics of industrial accidents and statistics of occupational diseases (Article 21(f) and (g)).

The Committee also asks the Government to provide copies of the following documents:

-- Law No. 2/92 concerning General Inspection of the State Administration, dated 17 January 1992.

-- Executive Decree No. 31/94, dated 25 November 1994.

-- Legal Statute and Internal Regulations of the General Labour Inspectorate, approved by Decree No. 9/95, dated 21 April 1995.