Decision on the fourth item on the agenda: Sectoral Activities Programme 2012–13

Record of decisions | 09 November 2012

Decision on the fourth item on the agenda: Sectoral Activities Programme 2012–13

The Governing Body:

(a) authorized the Director-General to communicate the final report of the Global Dialogue Forum on Conditions of Personnel in Early Childhood Education to governments, requesting them to communicate the text to the employers’ and workers’ organizations concerned as well as to communicate the report to the international employers’ and workers’ organizations and other international organizations concerned;

(b) requested the Director-General to convene in the second half of 2013 a meeting of experts which would consider, with a view to adopting, draft policy guidelines on early childhood education personnel;

(c) took note of the guidelines to assist competent authorities in the implementation of Part B of the Code of Safety for Fishermen and Fishing Vessels, the FAO/ILO/IMO Voluntary Guidelines for the Design, Construction and Equipment of Small Fishing Vessels, and the Safety recommendations for decked fishing vessels of less than 12 metres in length and undecked fishing vessels (implementation guidelines);

(d) approved the publication by the IMO of the implementation guidelines as a joint FAO/ILO/IMO publication;

(e) authorized the Director-General to communicate the above decisions to the Secretary-General of the IMO and the Director-General of the FAO;

(f) approved the proposals made in section II in relation to the holding of the Global Dialogue Forum for the promotion of the Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188), and the Meeting of Experts to Adopt Guidelines on the Training of Ships’ Cooks.

(Document GB.316/POL/4(&Corr.), paragraph 14.)