The Committee drafting committee (article 59 of the Standing Orders of the Conference) is composed of one government, one employer and one worker delegate, meets in the presence of the Legal Adviser and the Rapporteur, and is responsible for preparing the English and French texts, both versions being equally authoritative; solving drafting problems specifically referred to it by the technical committee; and ensuring that both texts are legally and linguistically coherent. The Conference Drafting Committee (article 6 of the Standing Orders of the Conference) prepares the definitive texts to be submitted to the Conference for adoption. 

Under normal circumstances, the main tasks of the Conference Drafting Committee consists in merely double-checking the legal consistency of the texts and the concordance between the English and French versions of the proposed instruments, which have already been fully reviewed by the Committee drafting committee. In addition, in the case of a Convention, the Conference Drafting Committee inserts the standard final provisions. In view of the time constraints of the two-week format of the Conference, it has been suggested that on an experimental basis the review of the draft instruments by the Conference Drafting Committee could be omitted and that its general responsibilities could be assumed by the Committee drafting committee including as regards the standard final provisions in a case of a draft Convention. This arrangement was trialled in June 2019 during the second Conference discussion of the draft Convention and Recommendation on violence and harassment in the world of work.