Article 24 Languages (ILC Standing Orders)
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Document No. (ilolex): 27199429
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 24
Languages
1. The French and English languages shall be the official languages of the
Conference.
2. Speeches made in French shall be summarized in English, and vice versa, by
an interpreter belonging to the Secretariat of the Conference.
3. Speeches made in Spanish shall be summarized by the official interpreters,
who shall also give a summary in Spanish of speeches made in English or
French.
4. A delegate may speak in another non-official language, but the relevant
delegation must provide for a summarized translation of the speech into one of
the two official languages by an interreter attached to the delegation, unless
an interpreter of the Conference for the official languages can be placed at
its disposal by the Secretariat of the Conference. This summarized translation
shall then be rendered in the other official language by an interpreter
belonging to the Secretariat.
5. The translation and circulation of documents shall be in the hands of the
Secretariat and all such documents shall appear in English, French and
Spanish.
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