Decision concerning the proposals for improving efficiency in the production of official documents

The Governing Body:

(a) endorsed, in principle, the proposal set out in document GB.356/INS/8 to replace the current approach to recording the proceedings of official meetings by an approach that consists of producing a record containing links to online audio or video recordings and automatically generated transcripts for the following meetings:

• plenary sittings, recurrent discussion committees and general discussion committees of the International Labour Conference;
• Governing Body sessions;
• regional meetings;
• technical meetings.

(b) requested the Office to:

• (i) implement, on a trial basis, the new approach to recording the proceedings at the 114th Session of the Conference and at the 357th Session of the Governing Body in June 2026;
• (ii) make available online, for the purpose of the trial, the audio or video recordings of sittings of the Governing Body and of Conference recurrent discussion and general discussion committees, accompanied by automatically generated transcripts;
• (iii) submit to its 358th Session (November 2026) the result of the assessment of the trial and any amendments to the applicable standing orders and rules that may be required to apply the new approach to sessions of the Conference and the Governing Body, and regional and technical meetings.

(GB.356/INS/8, paragraph 28)