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The Committee notes the supplementary information provided by the Government in reply to its previous request. In order to allow the Committee to better appreciate the effect given to the Convention, it would be grateful if the Government would supply further information in its next report on the following points.

Articles 2, 3 and 10 of the Convention. 1. The Committee notes that under Decree No. 88.374 of 7 June 1983, undertakings obliged to contribute to financing education allowances may opt for direct financing of primary studies of their workers or the workers' children. In this matter, the Committee recalls that, as it stressed in its 1991 General Survey (paragraph 344), this type of financing can be assimilated to paid educational leave only when the beneficiaries are the workers themselves, and not their children. The Committee requests the Government to indicate what proportion of workers benefit from this means of employers financing primary education by supplying all statistics available on the matter.

2. The Committee notes the detailed information supplied on the conditions for granting research and higher education grants. It would be grateful if the Government would also supply detailed information on the conditions that workers must satisfy to benefit from leave for vocational training at all levels, primary and secondary education and trade union education. Please also specify in each of these cases the duration of the leave and the amount of financial benefits paid.

Article 7. Please supply all available data on the amounts allocated for granting paid educational leave during the period covered by the report for the various educational purposes set out in Article 2 of the Convention.

Article 9. Please indicate which particular categories of workers benefit from special provisions in application of Article 9(a). Please indicate whether special measures have also been taken or are envisaged to guarantee that the workers engaged in particular categories of undertakings, such as small or seasonal undertakings, are not excluded from the benefit of paid educational leave, in accordance with Article 9(b).

Part V of the report form. Please provide information on the manner in which the Convention is applied in practice, in particular by supplying all available statistics on the number of beneficiaries of paid educational leave for the various educational purposes specified.