The Committee of Independant Experts, first in the four bodies responsible for supervising the implementation of the European Social Charter, examines the national reports of the Contracting Parties and adopts on this basis conclusions in which it indicates if it considers that during the period of the report, each of the Contracting Parties has conformed to provisions included in the report. The second volume of Conclusions XIV-2 contains reports regarding the situation in Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Belgium.