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Category: Practices

Supervisory bodies meetings – December

The CEACR meets in late November and early December to adopt comments (observations and direct requests) and the report that will be submitted to the Governing Body the following year for transmission to the International Labour Conference.

Supervisory bodies meetings – November

The CEACR meets in late November and early December to adopt comments (observations and direct requests) and the report that will be submitted to the Governing Body the following year for transmission to the International Labour Conference.

Office practice – September

The Office checks that the reports contain all the replies, information and documentation requested. If they do not, the Office will, without entering into the substance of the matter, ask governments to send them.


If the Office receives observations directly from employers’ and workers’ organizations, it acknowledges receipt and simultaneously forwards a copy to the government concerned, so that it might respond.

Member States practice – August

The CAS report is examined to take into consideration all possible and necessary measures and, as appropriate, to follow up on the conclusions of the CAS. Information in this regard is provided in the reports.


Reports on ratified Conventions due that year are sent to the Office.


Copies of reports are communicated to the representative organizations of employers and workers.

Member States practice – July

The CAS report is examined to take into consideration all possible and necessary measures and, as appropriate, to follow up on the conclusions on individual cases. Information in this regard is provided  in the reports.


Reports on ratified Conventions due that year are sent to the Office.


Copies of reports are communicated to the representative organizations of employers and workers.

Member States practice – June

Participate in proceedings, in discussion of any cases concerning their own country selected for consideration and, as appropriate, in discussion of cases concerning other member States than their own.


Reports on ratified Conventions due in the current year are sent to the Office.


Copies of reports on ratified Conventions are communicated to the representative organizations of employers and workers.