Decision on the third item on the agenda: The Standards Initiative: Report of the first meeting of the Standards Review Mechanism Tripartite Working Group

Record of decisions | 18 March 2016

Decision on the third item on the agenda: The Standards Initiative: Report of the first meeting of the Standards Review Mechanism Tripartite Working Group

The Governing Body:

(a) took note of the report of the Officers concerning the first meeting of the Standards Review Mechanism Tripartite Working Group (SRM TWG) contained in document GB.326/LILS/3/2;

(b) approved an initial programme of work for the SRM TWG that reviewed a total of 231 international labour standards organized into 20 thematic sets of instruments grouped by strategic objective;

(c) decided that the SRM TWG would examine sets of instruments 4, 11, 13, 16 and 19 concerning all the unfinished follow-up to the instruments identified as outdated by the Cartier Working Party, in its meeting to take place from 10 to 14 October 2016;

(d) referred the maritime instruments (sets of instruments 18 and 20), to the Special Tripartite Committee established under Article XIII of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006), for its expert review and report to the Governing Body; and

(e) convened the second meeting of the SRM TWG from 10 to 14 October 2016.

(Document GB.326/LILS/2, paragraph 6.)