Employers’ organizations examine the CEACR annual report and consider measures they can take to promote the fulfilment of standard-related obligations. These are government obligations, related to the application of ratified Conventions, the implementation of conclusions and recommendations made by other supervisory bodies, the compliance with reporting obligations and with the obligation to submit ILS to the competent authorities.
Governments examine the CEACR annual report and consider measures they can take to fulfil their standards-related obligations, i.e. obligations related to the application of ratified Conventions, the implementation of conclusions and recommendations made by other supervisory bodies, reporting and the submission of ILS to the competent authorities. Governments study comments made by the CEACR on Conventions they have ratified. They check if the CEACR has asked that they supply full particulars to the International Labour Conference which takes place in June, as this will require prior preparation. They look at challenges observed by the CEACR in respecting reporting obligations and other standards-related obligations under the ILO Constitution.
Contact may be taken within governmental departments and with the social partners to consider actions to substantively respond to CEACR comments. Substantive response implies action to change laws or practices to better meet obligations and/or study of the matter at hand to better engage in dialogue with the CEACR concerning the law and practice and their conformity with obligations.
Workers’ organizations examine the CEACR annual report and consider measures they can take to promote the fulfilment of standards-related obligations by governments. These are obligations related to the application of ratified Conventions, the implementation of conclusions and recommendations made by other supervisory bodies, reporting and the submission of ILS to the competent authorities.
The CEACR prepares an annual report, which is in the first place submitted to the Governing Body at its March session for transmission to the International Labour Conference in June. The CEACR report is published in February, and is made available in hard copy and in the ILO website.
The CEACR report is traditionally submitted to the International Labour Conference as “Report III”, i.e. the third standing item to be included by the Governing Body in the International Labour Conference agenda each year. As such, the report consists of two volumes. The first volume (Report III (Part A)) is divided into two parts:
Part I: The General Report describes the progress of the work of the CEACR and specific matters relating to it that have been addressed, and the extent to which member States have fulfilled their constitutional obligations in relation to ILS;
Part II: Observations concerning particular countries on the fulfilment of obligations in respect of the submission of reports, the application of ratified Conventions grouped by subject matter, and the obligation to submit instruments to the competent national authorities.
The second volume contains a General Survey (Report III (Part B)) in which the CEACR examines the state of the legislation and practice regarding a given number of Conventions and Recommendations, selected annually by the Governing Body. This examination covers all member States regardless of whether or not they have ratified the given Conventions. General Surveys since 1985 are available in the ILO website.
The comments of the CEACR on the fulfilment by member States of their standards-related obligations that take the form of observations are published in the CEACR report which has, at the beginning, the indexes of comments by Convention and by country. The NORMLEX database includes both observations and direct requests by the CEACR.
