Decision on the eighth item on the agenda: Proposed modalities to review the Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy

Record of decisions | 24 March 2016

Decision on the eighth item on the agenda: Proposed modalities to review the Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy

The Governing Body decided to:

(a) establish a tripartite ad hoc working group of eight members representing Governments, four members representing Workers and four members representing Employers that would meet twice before March 2017 to review the text of the Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy including its annex and addenda and the interpretation procedure. The recommendations of the working group, arrived at through consensus, would be presented for possible adoption at the 329th Session (March 2017) of the Governing Body;

(b) request the Director-General to ensure that the Office provided all necessary support to the constituents;

(c) approve the funding of the tripartite ad hoc working group’s meetings as set out in paragraph 17 of document GB.326/POL/8, having due regard to the possibilities of reducing the costs through careful planning, and that the costs be financed in the first instance from savings in Part I of the budget or, failing that, through Part II, on the understanding that, should that subsequently prove impossible, the Director-General would propose alternative methods of financing at a later stage in the 2016-17 biennium.

(Document GB.326/POL/8, paragraph 19, as redrafted following the Governing Body discussion.)