Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Congo (Ratification: 1999)

The Committee notes with regret that the Government’s report has not been received. It hopes that a report will be supplied for examination by the Committee at its next session and that it will contain full information on the matters raised in its 2004 direct request, which read as follows:

1. Effective tripartite consultations. The Committee notes the Government’s first report on the application of the Convention, received in June 2004. It notes in particular that section 2 of Order No. 788, of 6 September 1999, provides for the establishment of a Technical Advisory Committee on International Labour Standards with responsibility for promoting effective consultations between the Government and the most representative organizations of employers and workers on the matters set out in paragraph 1 of Article 5. However, the Government indicates that, due to the lack of adequate financial resources, this Advisory Committee is still not operational. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the efforts made to establish the Technical Advisory Committee on International Labour Standards, with an indication of the consultation procedures established within the Advisory Committee in accordance with Article 2 of the Convention. Once the Advisory Committee has started to operate, please provide a copy of the annual report on the working of the consultation procedures, prepared under the terms of section 6 of Order No. 788 of 1999 (Article 6 of the Convention).

2. Training. The Committee notes that the training of the participants in the consultation procedures is ensured in the form of seminars organized by the administration and by intergovernmental organizations and, for this purpose, a tripartite seminar on international labour standards was held in Kinshasa in May 2002 with the assistance of the ILO. It requests the Government to continue providing information on this subject and would be grateful if it would indicate whether arrangements have been made or are envisaged, on the basis of Article 4, paragraph 2, for the financing of any necessary training of participants in the consultation procedures.

3. Consultations required by the Convention. The Government indicates that consultations on the matters covered by Article 5, paragraph 1, are carried out by means of written communications. The Committee refers to the comments that it has been making for several years on the obligation of the submission to the National Assembly of the instruments adopted by the Conference and trusts that in future the Government will provide detailed information on the consultations held, particularly in the Technical Advisory Committee on International Labour Standards, on each of the matters set out in Article 5, paragraph 1, and particularly clause (b), during the period covered by the next report, with an indication of their subject, frequency and any reports or recommendations resulting from these consultations.