Decision on the third item on the agenda: Appointment of Governing Body committees and of various bodies

Record of decisions | 01 August 2008

Committees

The Governing Body:

(a) confirmed the establishment, apart from the Programme, Financial and Administrative Committee (PFAC), of the Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA), the Committee on Legal Issues and International Labour Standards (LILS), the Committee on Employment and Social Policy (ESP), the Committee on Sectoral and Technical Meetings and Related Issues (STM) and the Committee on Technical Cooperation (TC) for the 2008–11 period;

(b) reconstituted the Subcommittee on Multinational Enterprises and confirmed its composition, that is, eight regular and eight substitute members from each group;

(c) approved the reconstitution of the Building Subcommittee and the Information and Communications Technology Subcommittee of the Programme, Financial and Administrative Committee, as described in paragraph 3 of document GB.302/3 and authorized the Officers of the Programme, Financial and Administrative Committee to proceed to the appointment of the members of these Subcommittees;

(d) constituted on a temporary basis a steering group which would be responsible for the follow-up to the Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization.

(document GB.302/3, paragraph 7)

Other bodies

Board of the International Institute for Labour Studies

The Governing Body appointed 12 of its members, four from each of the three groups, as members of the Board of the International Institute for Labour Studies for a period of three years.

(document GB.302/3, paragraph 9)

Board of the International Training Centre
of the ILO, Turin

The Governing Body appointed 24 of its members – 12 from the Government group (including six from among the representatives of the ten Members of the International Labour Organization of chief industrial importance) and six from each of the other two groups – as members of the Board of the International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin for a period of three years.

(document GB.302/3, paragraphs 10 to 11)