The Instrument of Amendment to the
ILO Constitution was adopted on 24 June 1986 at the 72
nd Session
of the International Labour Conference with a view to ILO’s 75
th
anniversary and the 50
th anniversary of the Philadelphia
Declaration.
It has not yet entered into force. It will do so once it has
been ratified or accepted by two thirds of the Organization’s
Member States, including five of the ten States of chief industrial importance
(Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States of America).
The 1986 Amendment makes changes to 11 of the Constitution’s 40 articles
and covers several important aspects of ILO’s structure and functioning. It
addresses four areas in particular:
- the composition and governance of the ILO Governing Body;
- the procedure for appointing the ILO Director-General;
- voting at the International Labour Conference; and
- the rules governing how the Constitution may be amended.
