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In its previous observation, the Committee noted that the General Secretariat on Equality had been participating in a number of activities and studies within the context of the European Union’s efforts to promote equal remuneration and that, together with the Centre for Equality Issues (KEOI), it had elaborated the programmes entitled “Equal Remuneration and the Role of the Social Partners in Collective Bargaining”, “Mind the Equal Pay Gap” and “Towards Closing the Equal Pay Gap”, which were carried out between 2001 and 2003. The Committee reiterates its request to the Government to provide more detailed information in its next report on the specific activities carried out under these programmes, including copies of the studies referred to, as well as an indication of the manner in which these programmes have contributed to a reduction in the pay gap between men and women and to the promotion of equal remuneration for men and women for work of equal value in both the public and private sectors. Noting further that the Government has not yet replied to the Committee’s repeated requests for statistical information on the earnings of men and women in the public and private sectors, in accordance with its 1998 general observation on the Convention, the Committee urges the Government to supply such information in its next report.

The Committee is raising other points in a request addressed directly to the Government.