Article 2 Right of admission to sittings of the Conference (ILC Standing
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Document No. (ilolex): 27199402
Part I: General Standing Orders
Adopted on 21 November 1919 at the First Session of the Conference. Revised
and consolidated at the 27th Session. The present text of this article
includes all amendments adopted up to the 97th Session (2008).
The ILO is committed to promoting gender equality. Amendments to this effect
were adopted at the 97th Session of the International Labour Conference
(Geneva, 2008).
ARTICLE 2
Right of admission to sittings of the Conference
1. The sittings of the Conference shall be public except in cases in which it
has been expressly decided to the contrary.
2. Seats in the Conference hall shall be assigned to the delegates and their
advisers by the Secretary-General.
3. Apart from delegates and advisers the only persons permitted to enter the
body of the hall shall be--
(a) ministers whose departments deal with the questions discussed by the
Conference and who are not delegates or advisers;
(b) representatives of official international organizations which have been
invited by the Conference or the Governing Body to be represented at the
Conference;
(c) members of the Governing Body who are not delegates or advisers;
(d) representatives of a state or province of a federal State who have been
appointed to accompany a delegation by the Government of a Member of the
Organization;
(e) persons appointed as observers by a State invited to attend the
Conference;
(f) the Director-General of the International Labour Office and the officials
of the Secretariat of the Conference;
(g) one secretary or interpreter for each delegation;
(h) the secretaries of the Employers' and Workers' groups;
(i) persons appointed by Members of the Organization to occupy advisers' posts
which may fall vacant in their delegations;
(j) representatives of non-governmental international organizations with which
it has been decided to establish consultative relationships and with which
standing arrangements for such representation have been made and
representatives of other non-governmental international organizations which
have been invited by the Governing Body to be represented at the Conference;
(k) representatives of liberation movements recognized by the Organization of
African Unity or the League of Arab States which have been invited by the
Conference or the Governing Body to be represented at the Conference.
4. Requests from non-governmental international organizations for an
invitation to be represented at the Conference shall be made in writing to the
Director-General of the International Labour Office and shall reach him at
least one month before the opening of the session of the Governing Body
preceding the session of the Conference. Such requests shall be referred to
the Governing Body for decision in accordance with criteria established by the
Governing Body.
5. Arrangements shall be made by the Secretary-General for the accommodation
at public sittings of distinguished strangers and the press.
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