Annex Follow-up to the Declaration

1.  Overall purpose

1. The aim of the follow-up described below is to encourage the efforts made by the Members of the Organization to promote the fundamental principles and rights enshrined in the Constitution of the ILO and the Declaration of Philadelphia and reaffirmed in this Declaration.                            2. In line with this objective, which is of a strictly promotional nature, this follow-up will allow the identification of areas in which the assistance of the Organization through its technical cooperation activities may prove useful to its Members to help them implement these fundamental principles and rights. It is not a substitute for the established supervisory mechanisms. Nor shall impede their functioning: consequently, specific situations within the preview of those mechanisms shall not be examined or re-examined within the framework of this follow-up                            3. The two aspects of this follow-up, described below, are based on existing procedures: the annual follow-up concerning non-ratified fundamental Conventions will entail merely some adaptation of the present modalities of application of article 19, paragraph 5 (e) of the Constitution; and the global report will serve to obtain the best results from the procedures carried out pursuant to the Constitution.

2. Annual follow-up concerning non-ratified fundamental Conventions

A. Purpose and scope                            1.  the purpose is to provide an opportunity to review each year. By means of simplified procedures to replace the four-year review introduced by the Governing Body in 1995, the efforts made in accordance with the Declaration by Members which have not yet ratified all the fundamental Conventions.                            2.  The follow-up will cover each year the four areas of fundamental principles and rights specified in the Declaration.      B. Modalities                            1 The follow-up will be based on reports requested from Members under article 19, paragraph 5 (e) of the Constitution. The report forms will be drawn up so as to obtain information from governments which have not ratified one or more of the fundamental Conventions, on any changes which may have take place in their law and practice, taking due account of article 23 of the Constitution and established practice.                            2 These reports, as complied by the Office, will be reviewed by the Governing Body.                            3 With a view the presenting and introduction to the reports thus complied, drawing attention to and aspects which might call for a more in-depth discussion, the Office may call upon a group of experts appointed for this purpose by the Governing Body.                            4 Adjustments to the Governing Body’s existing procedures should be examined to allow Members Which are not represented on the Governing Body to provide. In the most appropriate way, clarifications which might prove necessary or useful during Governing Body discussions to supplement the information contained in their repots

3.  Global report

A. Purpose and scope                            1. The purpose of this report is to provide a dynamic global picture relating to each category of fundamental principles and rights noted during the preceding four-year period, and to serve as a basis for assessing the effectiveness of the assistance provide by the Organization, and for determining priorities for the following period, in the form of action plans for technical cooperation designed in particular to mobilize the internal resources necessary to carry them out.                            2. The report will cover, each year, one of the four categories of fundamental principles and rights in turn.      B. Modalities                            1. the report will be drawn up the responsibility of the Director-General on the basis of official information, or information gathered and assessed in accordance with established procedures. In case of States which have not ratified the fundamental Conventions. It will be based in particular on the findings of the aforementioned annual follow-up. In the case of Members which have ratified the Conventions concerned, the report will be based in particular on reports as dealt with pursuant to article 22 of the Constitution.                            2. This report will be submitted to the Conference for tripartite discussion as a report of the Director-General. The conference may deal with this report separately from reports under article 12 of its Standing Orders, and may discuss it during a sitting devoted entirely to this reports, o in any other appropriate way. It will then be for the Governing Body, at an early session, to draw conclusions from this discussion concerning the priorities and plans of action for technical cooperation to implemented for the following four-year period.

4. It is understand that:

1.  Propasals shall be made for amendments to the Standing Orders of the Governing Body and the Conference which are required to implement the preceding provisions.                         2.  The Conference shall, in due course, review the operation of this follow-up in the light of the experience acquired to asses whether it has adequately fulfilled the overall purpose articulated in Part 1