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The Committee notes the Government's reports as well as the annual reports on the activities of the labour inspection services for 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997. It also notes the Government's reply to its last observation regarding the form and content of the comments submitted by the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions (ICATU), and in this connection has carefully studied the Government's correspondence of 9 June 1994. It expresses the hope that the Government will continue to supply regularly the information required by the report form of the Convention as well as the annual reports on the activities of the labour inspection services.

With reference to the detailed information contained in the last annual reports on the activities of the labour inspection services regarding Article 21(a) to (f) of the Convention, the Committee notes firstly, that the statistics on occupational accidents are based on data on compensation provided by the social insurance bodies and secondly, that no information was transmitted in respect of occupational diseases (Article 21(g)). The Committee wishes in this connection to recall the Government's attention to its 1996 general observation on the interest, both for governments and the social partners, to take as a basis the ILO publication containing practical guidelines entitled Recording and notification of occupational accidents and diseases (ILO, 1996). It expresses the hope that the Government will consequently take the measures necessary to ensure that future annual reports on the activities of the labour inspection services will contain as reliable information as possible on statistics on occupational accidents as well as statistics on occupational diseases to attain fuller prevention of such accidents and diseases.