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The Committee noted in earlier comments that the General Directorate of the Merchant Navy was planning to reform the occupational safety regulations applicable to ports and had undertaken to carry out a complete revision of the manual on safety standards and the prevention of risks to which port workers are exposed. The Committee notes with regret that the revision which was announced has not materialized, and the Government restricts itself to reiterating the information already communicated in its previous reports. Given that the texts to which the Government refers do not apply the provisions of the Convention, the Committee again trusts that the Government will adopt in the very near future the measures necessary to reform the text of the regulations and revise the manual on safety standards and the prevention of risks to which port workers are exposed, taking into account each of the comments made by the Committee of Experts in its direct request of 1993, so as to ensure application of the provisions of the Convention.