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The Committee notes the Government's first report (period ending 31 May 1999). It requests the Government to provide further information and clarification on the application of the following provisions of the Convention.

Article 2, paragraph 1. Please specify whether the duties carried out by the hygienists (at central level, in the regions and towns) and by their deputies, in respect of hygiene and epidemiology fall within the sphere of responsibility of the State Sanitary Inspection, or of a separate inspection system.

Article 5, paragraph (b). Please indicate the particular forms of collaboration between officials of the State Labour Inspectorate and employers and workers, or their organizations.

Article 6. Please indicate the grounds for termination of employment of civil servants according to their particular statute.

Article 11, paragraph 1(b). The Committee asks the Government to provide information on the transport facilities supplied to regional state labour inspectorates besides those mentioned in the report.

Article 12, paragraph 1(c)(iii). Please indicate whether state labour inspectors have the powers provided for in this provision of the Convention and, if so, indicate the corresponding provisions of the national legislation.

Article 12, paragraph 2. Please indicate the legal provisions giving effect to these provisions and the manner in which they are applied in practice.

Article 14. The Committee asks the Government to clarify whether employers are obliged to notify the State Labour Inspectorate of cases of occupational disease; and to indicate the provisions of legislation obliging the consultative commission of physicians of the Centre of Occupational and Radiation Medicine of Pauls Stradins Teaching and Research Hospital of the Latvian Medical Academy to inform the State Labour Inspectorate of cases of occupational disease.

Article 27. Please clarify whether the Regulations of the Tripartite National Council of Employers, State and Trade Unions, ratified on July 12, 1996 and the law on the technical supervision of dangerous equipment, dated 23 February 1995, are still effective or whether they have been superseded respectively by the Regulations of the National Tripartite Cooperation Council, of 30 October 1998 and by the law of the Republic of Latvia on the technical supervision of dangerous equipment, of 24 September 1998. Please also state whether collective agreements in Latvia are enforceable by the State Labour Inspectorate and, if so, provide information on the relevant legal provisions.

The Committee also asks the Government to provide a copy of the Civil Service Act of 21 April 1994.