Decision on the seventh item on the agenda: Complaint concerning non-observance by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98), made by delegates to the 92nd Session (2004) of the International Labour Conference under article 26 of the ILO Constitution

Record of decisions | 23 March 2011

Decision on the seventh item on the agenda: Complaint concerning non-observance by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela of the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), and the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949 (No. 98), made by delegates to the 92nd Session (2004) of the International Labour Conference under article 26 of the ILO Constitution

The Governing Body decided:

(a) that the complaint presented originally in 2004 would not be referred to a Commission of Inquiry;

(b) to request the Director-General to send a high-level tripartite mission to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to address all the issues before the Governing Body related to Case No. 2254 as well as technical cooperation matters, and to provide a full report to the Governing Body at its 312th Session (November 2011);

(c) that, as a result of this decision, the procedure filed under article 26 of the ILO Constitution, in June 2004, was closed.

(Document GB.310/7, paragraph 8, and proposal made by the Officers.)