Article 59 Committee drafting committees; subcommittees (ILC Standing Orders)
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Document No. (ilolex): 27199465
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 59
Committee drafting committees; subcommittees
1. Each committee to which the Conference, in accordance with article 40 of
the rules of procedure for Conventions and Recommendations, refers as a basis
of discussion texts of proposed Conventions or Recommendations shall set up at
an early sitting a committee drafting committee consisting of one Government
delegate, one Employers f delegate and one Workers f delegate together with
the Reporter or Reporters of the committee and the Legal Adviser of the
Conference. In so far as may be possible the committee drafting committee
shall comprise members conversant with both official languages. The committee
drafting committee may be assisted by the officials of the Secretariat of the
Conference attached to each committee as experts on the particular item of the
agenda concerned. The committee drafting committee shall form part of the
Conference Drafting Committee when any Convention or Recommendation is
submitted to the Conference by the committee concerned.
2. Each committee shall have power to set up subcommittees after due notice
has been given to the three groups in the committee.
3. The Chairperson of a committee shall be entitled to attend the meetings of
the committee drafting committee and of the subcommittees set up by the
committee.
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