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Article 3 of the Convention. Minimum wage fixing. The Committee notes with regret that no progress has been achieved for the past nine years in relation to the readjustment of the guaranteed interoccupational minimum wage (SMIG). The Government once again refers in its report to the meeting of the Higher Council of Labour and Employment (CSTE), held in 2001, which resulted in a compromise to establish the rate of the SMIG at 35,000 KMF (approximately US$90) a month. While noting that the SMIG has been made official in the public sector, the Committee notes with regret that the draft Decree issuing the rate of the SMIG for the private sector, agreed upon in 2001, has not yet been made official. The Committee is bound to observe that, in the current circumstances, the Convention is not given effect in either law or practice. It therefore urges the Government to take all the necessary measures without delay to determine and implement the rate of the SMIG, in full consultation with the CSTE, so as to ensure that the minimum wage responds adequately to the current needs of workers and their families.