Decision on the 12th item on the agenda: Report of the Working Party on the Functioning of the Governing Body and the International Labour Conference

The Governing Body:

(a) requested the Office:

(i) to convene, before March 2015, tripartite consultations on the issues listed in document GB.322/WP/GBC/1(Add.);

(ii) to finalize for March 2015 a plan of work for the 104th Session of the Conference (June 2015), which would take into account the reforms agreed by the Working Party; ¹

(b) endorsed the following schedule for the future work of the Working Party:

(i) from November 2015, review the experience of the two-week session of the 2015 Conference and determine the format of the June 2016 session;

(ii) in March 2016, discuss proposed amendments to the International Labour Conference Standing Orders to be submitted to a Standing Orders Committee of the Conference in June 2016 and commence the review of the role, purpose and functioning of the Regional Meetings in order to establish a time frame for a possible reform.

(Document GB.322/INS/12, paragraph 13.)

¹ See GB.322/WP/GBC/1 and GB.322/WP/GBC/1(Add.).