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The Committee notes with interest the Government’s first report and Act No. 12 of 7 April 2003 and its implementing decrees. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide additional information on the following points.

1. Competence of labour inspection services in agriculture. Please indicate the provisions of national laws or regulations which determine the agricultural undertakings subject to the system of labour inspection in agriculture and the various categories of workers for whose protection this labour inspectorate is responsible (Article 4 of the Convention).

2. Training of labour inspectors in agriculture. Please indicate whether labour inspectors in agriculture receive specific training for the performance of their duties (Article 9, paragraph 3).

3. Gender balance in the labour inspectorate. Please indicate the proportion of women appointed to labour inspection in agriculture and state whether special tasks are assigned to them, as envisaged in Article 10.

4. Equipment furnished to labour inspectors in agriculture. Please provide detailed information on the equipment furnished to labour inspectors in agriculture enabling them, in particular, to take or remove for purposes of analysis samples of products, materials and substances used or handled in agricultural undertakings (Article 16, paragraph 1(c)(iii)).

5. Transport facilities. Please indicate whether labour inspectors have access to specific transport facilities for the performance of their duties in agriculture (Article 15, paragraph 1(b)).

6. Participation in inquiries into occupational accidents or occupational diseases. Please indicate the provisions of national laws or regulations requiring inspectors to be associated with any inquiry on the spot into the causes of occupational accidents or occupational diseases that have fatal consequences or affect a number of workers (Article 19, paragraph 2).

7. Annual report on the activities of the labour inspection services in agriculture. The Committee hopes that the Government will soon be in a position to send, in accordance with its undertakings, an annual report on the activities of the labour inspection services in agriculture containing information on each of the subjects listed in Article 27, and that will be published and sent to the ILO within the time limits set in Article 26.