Article 56 Composition of committees and right to participate in their work
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Part II: Standing Orders concerning special subjects, Section H - Committees
of the Conference.
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 56
Composition of committees and right to participate in their work
1. The Conference shall designate the Governments to be represented on each
committee by Government members and shall appoint the delegates or advisers to
be Employers' and Workers' members of the said committee.
2. Each Government designated in accordance with the preceding paragraph shall
communicate to the secretariat of the committee the name of its regular
representative and that of any substitute appointed.
3. The Employers' group and the Workers' group shall decide whether, and if so
on what conditions, those of their members appointed to committees may be
replaced by personal substitutes; the said groups shall inform the secretariat
of the committee of their decisions.
4. When the need to maintain a balance between the groups represented on a
committee does not permit the Conference to meet all requests for membership
of the said committee, the Conference may designate governments who will be
represented on the committee by Government deputy members nominated by them
and may appoint Employers' and Workers' delegates or advisers to be Employers'
and Workers' deputy members of the committee.
5. These deputy members shall have the same rights as the members of the
committee except that they may vote only on the following conditions:
(a) Government deputy members may vote when they are so authorized by a
written notification to the secretariat of the committee from a Government
regular member of the committee who is not voting and has not been replaced by
a substitute;
(b) Employers' and Workers' deputy members may vote in place of a regular
Employers' or Workers' member on the conditions defined by their respective
groups; the groups shall inform the secretariat of the committee of all
decisions taken in this connection.
6. In addition to the members of the committee, any delegate or any adviser
who has received a written authorization for the purpose from the delegate to
whom the adviser is attached shall be entitled to be present at the meetings
and shall have the full rights of the members of the committee except the
right to vote.
7. Representatives of official international organizations which have been
invited to be represented at the Conference shall be entitled to be present at
the meetings of the committee and may participate, without vote, in the
discussion.
8. The following persons shall be entitled to be present at the meetings of
the committee and may participate in the discussions with the permission of
the Chairperson:
(a) persons appointed as observers by a State invited to attend the
Conference;
(b) technical experts appointed to the committee by the Conference as
assessors in accordance with article 18 of the Constitution of the
Organization.
9. Representatives of non-governmental international organizations with which
the International Labour Organization has established consultative
relationships and with which standing arrangements for representation at the
Conference have been made, and representatives of other non-governmental
international organizations which the Conference, or the Selection Committee
within the limits set out in article 4, paragraph 2, has invited to be
represented at the committee, may be present at the meetings of the committee.
The Chairperson may, in agreement with the Vice-Chairpersons, permit such
representatives to make or circulate statements for the information of the
committee upon matters included in its agenda. If agreement cannot be reached
the matter shall be referred to the meeting for decision without discussion.
This paragraph does not apply to meetings dealing with administrative or
financial matters.
10. Representatives of liberation movements which have been invited to attend
the Conference and which the Conference has invited to be represented at the
committee may participate, without vote, in the discussions.
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