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The Committee notes the reports covering the period ending in June 1999. It notes with interest that the project proposal on the strengthening of the inspectorate services submitted by the Government at the 87th Session of the International Labour Conference with a view to receiving international cooperation in the form of technical assistance from the ILO has been approved. The Committee hopes that the funds needed to carry out this project will be available in the near future.

With reference to its observation of 1995, the Committee notes with interest the information showing that there was an increase in the number of labour inspectors during that year (Article 10 of the Convention). It also notes that, according to the Government, there is a need to increase the budgetary appropriations for the training of labour inspectors (Article 7) and to provide the latter with the material means necessary for the performance of their duties (Article 11). The Committee again notes that the production and publication of an annual inspection report, the form and content of which are prescribed in Articles 20 and 21, are still impossible owing to the financial constraints mentioned by the Government in each of its reports. It nonetheless notes that, according to the Government, the statistics of industrial accidents and occupational diseases (Article 21(f) and (g)) are updated regularly. The Committee trusts that the Government will send them with its next report and that it will also be in a position to provide up-to-date information on the human and material resources available for performing the main functions of the system of labour inspection (Article 3(1)) together with information on the state of progress of the abovementioned cooperation project for the strengthening of the inspectorate services and on progress made in establishing the conditions necessary for applying the Convention.