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Part VII (Family benefit), Article 44 of the Convention. In reply to the Committee’s previous comments concerning the statistics necessary to calculate the total value of family benefit, the Government provides various types of statistics, including data on the total amount of family benefit provided to the various beneficiaries during the year 2000, and the number of dependent children for this branch in the same year. The Committee notes this information with interest and observes that the total value of family benefit in Senegal should in theory attain the level prescribed by the Convention. In order to be able to confirm this conclusion, the Committee also requests the Government to indicate, for the same reference period, namely the year 2000, the level of the average national wage and the wage of an ordinary adult male labourer, defined in accordance with Article 66 of the Convention.

Part VIII (Maternity benefit), Article 49. In reply to the Committee’s previous comments, the Government indicates that, in the case of the pre-natal care provided in the context of the maternal and child protection granted by the Social Security Fund, beneficiaries have paid a cost share of CFA100 francs since the devaluation of the CFA franc in 1994, whereas previously this care was free of charge. In view of the fact that the Government has repeatedly undertaken to ensure that pre-natal and post-natal care is provided free of charge, as is already the case for confinement, the Committee once again hopes that the Government will take the necessary measures in the near future to ensure that effect is given to the Convention, which lays down that this care shall be provided free of charge, and that the next report will indicate the progress made in this respect.