Decision on the 13th item on the agenda: Report of the Director-General Third Supplementary Report: Follow-up to the Minamata Convention on Mercury The Minamata Convention on Mercury

Record of decisions | 12 November 2014

Decision on the 13th item on the agenda: Report of the Director-General

Third Supplementary Report: Follow-up to the Minamata Convention on Mercury

The Minamata Convention on Mercury

The Governing Body:

(a) took note of the adoption of the Minamata Convention on Mercury; and

(b) requested the Office to continue collaborating with the interim secretariat of the Minamata Convention and other participating organizations of the Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC) in the areas under the ILO’s mandate, in particular in the protection of worker safety and health from exposure to mercury.

(Document GB.322/INS/13/3, paragraph 18.)