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GB.274/18
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EIGHTEENTH ITEM ON THE AGENDA
Composition and agenda of standing bodies and meetings
Contents
Tripartite Meeting on Managing the Privatization and Restructuring of Public Utilities
(Geneva, 12-16 April 1999)
Fourteenth American Regional Meeting
(Lima, 24-27 August 1999)
Meeting of Experts on Labour Inspection and Child Labour
(Geneva, 27 September-1 October 1999)
Meeting of Experts on Safety in the Use of Insulation Wools
(Geneva, 4-14 October 1999)
International Consultation concerning Follow-up on the World Summit for Social Development
(Geneva, 2-4 November 1999)
International Symposium on Trade Unions and the Informal Sector
(Geneva, 18-22 October 1999)
Ninth African Regional Meeting
(Yamoussoukro, 8-11 December 1999)
Tripartite Meeting on Managing the Privatization
and Restructuring of Public Utilities
(Geneva, 12-16 April 1999)
Invitation of a non-governmental international organization
1. The Director-General has received a request from the Confederación Latinoamericana de Trabajadores Estatales (Latin American Confederation of State Workers) to be represented by an observer at the meeting.
2. The Governing Body may wish to authorize the Director-General to invite the above non-governmental international organization to be represented by an observer at the meeting.
Fourteenth American Regional Meeting
(Lima, 24-27 August 1999)
Invitation of non-governmental international organizations
3. The Director-General has received requests from ATD Quart Monde, Caritas Internationalis and the Permanent Congress of Trade Union Unity of Latin American Workers (Congreso Permanente de Unidad Sindical de los Trabajadores de America Latina -- CPUSTAL) to be represented by observers at the meeting.
4. The Governing Body may wish to authorize the Director-General to invite the above non-governmental international organizations to be represented by observers at the meeting.
Meeting of Experts on Labour Inspection and Child Labour
(Geneva, 27 September-1 October 1999)
5. In December 1998 the Officers of the Governing Body approved on its behalf the agenda and composition of the above meeting, which will be held from 27 September to 1 October 1999.
Composition
6. The Officers decided that the meeting should be attended by 20 experts nominated after consultations with governments, ten after consultations with the Employers' group, and ten after consultations with the Workers' group of the Governing Body as provided for in the Programme and Budget for 1998-99 (paragraph 90.8). However, due to the interest expressed in the meeting and in order to benefit more widely from IPEC experience, it is proposed that the number of participants include 22 experts nominated after consultations with governments, 11 after consultations with the Employers' group, and 11 after consultations with the Workers' group of the Governing Body. In addition to the governments already noted by the Officers of the Governing Body, the Director-General intends to invite the Governments of Colombia and Spain, which had previously been included as substitutes, and to add the Governments of Haiti and Indonesia as possible governments to be approached should any of the governments be unable to nominate a participant.
7. The Officers of the Governing Body recommend that the Governing Body approve the above revised composition formula.
Invitation of non-governmental international organizations
8. The Director-General has received requests from the International Catholic Migration Commission, the International Movement of Apostolate of Children and Public Services International to be represented by observers at the meeting.
9. The Governing Body may wish to authorize the Director-General to invite the above non-governmental international organizations to be represented by observers at the meeting.
Meeting of Experts on Safety in the Use of Insulation Wools
(Geneva, 4-14 October 1999)
Composition
10. At its 270th (November 1997) Session, the Governing Body approved the financing, agenda and composition of the above meeting, and at its 273rd Session (November 1998) was informed of the countries the Director-General intended to approach to obtain nominations. The Director-General now submits the following nominations.
Nominations made after consultation with Governments(1)
Dr. Rolf Packroff, Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Germany;
Mr. Juan Carlos Castro Tamez, Industrial Engineer, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Mexico;
Prof. Jonathan Myers, University of Cape Town, South Africa;
Mr. Yuriy Tsybulya, Director, Small Venture BEIM LTD, Kotsubinskoe, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Substitutes(2)
Ms. Patricia Vega Lopez, Engineer, Department of Labour, Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Chile;
Dr. Norihiko Kohyama, National Institute of Industrial Health, Ministry of Labour, Japan;
Ms. Gabriela Balodis, Head of Section, Chemistry Division, Occupational Hygiene Department, Swedish National Board of Occupational Safety and Health, Sweden.
Invitation of intergovernmental organizations
11. The Director-General intends to invite the following to be represented at the meeting.
- European Commission;
- Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO);
- World Health Organization (WHO).
Invitation of non-governmental international organizations
12. The Director-General proposes that the following be invited to be represented at the meeting:
- European Insulation Manufacturers Association (EURIMA);
- International Association of Labour Inspection (IALI);
- International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH);
- International Ergonomics Association (IEA);
- International Federation of Building and Wood Workers (IFBWW);
- International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM);
- International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA);
- International Social Security Association (ISSA);
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
13. The Governing Body may wish to authorize the Director-General to invite the above organizations to be represented by observers at the meeting.
International Consultation concerning Follow-up
on the World Summit for Social Development
(Geneva, 2-4 November 1999)
Invitation of non-governmental international organizations
14. The Director-General has received requests from ATD Quart Monde, Caritas Internationalis, the International Association for Community Development and the International Movement of Apostolate of Children to be represented by observers at the meeting.
15. The Governing Body may wish to authorize the Director-General to invite the above non-governmental international organizations to be represented by observers at the meeting.
International Symposium on Trade Unions and
the Informal Sector
(Geneva, 18-22 October 1999)
16. The Programme and Budget for 1998-99 (paragraph 230.18) includes provision for an international symposium on trade unions and the informal sector. The provision is for a meeting lasting five days and involving 30 trade union representatives.
17. The meeting is intended to examine trade union action to further the interests of workers in the informal sector, homeworkers and workers engaged under contract labour in informal systems of work, particularly in connection with ILO activities in the field of technical cooperation. Taking into account the new challenges that trade unions have to meet vis-à-vis the latest developments in the world of work, the symposium will discuss operational elements for the strategic engagement of trade unions in the informal sector. It will suggest measures that could be adopted and will draw up action plans for consideration by trade unions to deal with the above categories of workers.
Agenda
18. The Director-General proposes the following agenda:
- Structural changes in the labour market: the significance of the informal sector, homework and contract labour; challenges and opportunities for trade unions.
- The role of trade unions in organizing informal workers, protecting their interests and promoting their mainstreaming into society.
- Strategic measures and action plans for consideration by trade unions to deal with workers in the informal sector, homeworkers and workers engaged under contract labour, particularly in connection with ILO technical cooperation activities.
19. The Officers of the Governing Body recommend that the Governing Body approve the above agenda.
Composition
20. It is proposed that, as foreseen in the programme and budget, the symposium be attended by 30 trade union representatives, nominated after consultations with the Workers' group of the Governing Body and coming from both industrialized and developing countries of Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Pacific and Europe.
21. The Officers of the Governing Body recommend that the Governing Body approve the above composition formula.
Ninth African Regional Meeting
(Yamoussoukro, 8-11 December 1999)
Invitation of a non-governmental international organization
22. The Director-General has received a request from Caritas Internationalis to be represented by an observer at the meeting.
23. The Governing Body may wish to authorize the Director-General to invite the above non-governmental international organization to be represented by an observer at the meeting.
Geneva, 16 March 1999.
Points for decision:
Paragraph 2;
Paragraph 4;
Paragraph 7;
Paragraph 9;
Paragraph 13;
Paragraph 15;
Paragraph 19;
Paragraph 21;
Paragraph 23.
1. Nominations are outstanding from France, Thailand and the United States.
2. A nomination is outstanding from Kazakhstan.