Article 6 Conference Drafting Committee (ILC Standing Orders)

Description: (ILC Standing Orders)
Part I: General Standing Orders 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 85th Session, 1997.

ARTICLE 6

Conference Drafting Committee

1. The Conference shall appoint on the nomination of the Selection Committee a Conference Drafting Committee consisting of at least three persons who need not be either delegates or advisers.

2. The Committee Drafting Committee appointed by each committee under article 59(1) of these Standing Orders shall form part of the Conference Drafting Committee when any proposed Convention or Recommendation is submitted to the Conference by the committee concerned.

3. The Conference Drafting Committee shall have the functions entrusted to it by the rules concerning Convention and Recommendation procedure (Section E) and the rules concerning the procedure for the amendment of the Constitution of the Organization (Section F) and shall, in general, be responsible for expressing in the form of Conventions and Recommendations the decisions adopted by the Conference and for ensuring agreement between the English and French versions of the texts of all formal instruments submitted to the Conference for adoption.