Article 62 Right to address the committee (ILC Standing Orders)


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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 62

Right to address the committee

1. No one shall be entitled to address a committee without having sought and obtained permission of the Chairperson, who shall call upon speakers in the order in which they have signified their desire to speak.

2. The Chairperson may withdraw the right to speak from any speaker whose remarks are not relevant to the subject under discussion.

3. Except with the special consent of the committee, no speech may exceed ten minutes, exclusive of the time for the translation.

4. In the case of the Resolutions Committee the Chairperson may, after consultation with the two Vice-Chairpersons, submit to the Committee for decision without debate a proposal to reduce the time-limit for speeches on a specific topic to five minutes.


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