Under article 33 of the ILO Constitution, when a government fails to carry out the recommendations of a COI or the decision of the ICJ, the Governing Body may recommend to the International Labour Conference any action it deems wise and expedient to secure compliance.
The Governing Body has once availed itself of this authority, when the International Labour Conference then adopted the Resolution concerning the measures recommended by the Governing Body under article 33 of the ILO Constitution on the subject of Myanmar to secure compliance with the recommendations of the COI established to examine the observance of the obligations in respect of the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29). All constituents – governments, employers and workers – were asked to review their relations with Myanmar to ensure that the recommendations were applied in full, and follow-up to the recommendations was then secured by the CAS, which regularly discussed the item in a special sitting set aside for this purpose until 2012, and the CEACR.