Decision on the 11th item on the agenda: Report of the Subcommittee on Multinational Enterprises Outcome of the field exercise towards an alternative modality to evaluate the effect given to the MNE Declaration

Record of decisions | 19 November 2009

The Governing Body:

(a) requested the Office to undertake, for the next report, evaluating the effect given to the MNE Declaration, an exercise consisting of the following elements:

(i) completing within the next two years: (1) a global desk review for the period 2007–10; and (2) concrete exercises at the country and sectoral levels; and

(ii) subsequently completing a flagship report informing about the main trends and findings, building on items (1) and (2) above; and

(b) decided, following completion of the exercise above, and no later than 2011, to review its 1979 decision to report periodically on the effect given to the MNE Declaration, in light of the experience gained.

(Document GB.306/11, paragraph 33.)