Ratified conventions On unratified conventions and recommendations Regular control procedures Representions of non observance (art. 24 of the ILO Constituition)
ILO supervisory sistem Special control procedures
Complaints (art. 26 of the ILO Constituition) Complaints to the Committee on Freedom of Association
An important element to emphasize is that the ILO's supervisory bodies, as well as the various procedures of the supervisory system, are closely related, complementary, and mutually reinforcing.40 The complementary relationship between the technical monitoring by the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations and the subsequent tripartite monitoring by the Committee on the Application of Standards makes it possible to maintain
a balance in the examination of cases. The Committee of Experts also follows up the recommendations issued by both the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards and the bodies of the special monitoring procedures, the Committee on Freedom of Association, the tripartite committees set up to consider representations of non-observance and the commissions of inquiry set up to consider complaints (Article 26 of the Constitution).
How do supervisory system monitoring procedures work 10. and how can unions leverage them? The regular supervisory procedure consists of the examination by certain ILO supervisory bodies of the level of application of compliance with international labor standards on the basis of periodic reports that States are obliged to send to the ILO. The two regular supervisory bodies are the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions
and Recommendations and the Committee on the Application of Standards of the International Labour Conference. Both supervisory bodies were established at the 1926 International Labour Conference in order to respond to the increase in the volume of reports submitted by Member States and the complexity of their technical content. The regular supervisory procedure
40. ILO. Monitoring compliance with international labour standards: The key role of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations. Geneva: ILO, 2019.: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/ groups/public/---ed_norm/---normes/documents/publication/wcms_730866.pdf
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