Decision on the tenth item on the agenda: Implementation strategy for the follow-up mechanism of and promotional activities on the Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration)

Record of decisions | 20 March 2014

Decision on the tenth item on the agenda: Implementation strategy for the follow-up mechanism of and promotional activities on the Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration)

The Governing Body:

(a) affirmed the operational plan for the MNE Declaration follow-up mechanism comprising promotional activities and an information-gathering system, as outlined in document GB.320/POL/10 and discussed at its 313th (March 2012) and 320th (March 2014) Sessions;

(b) adopted the four elements proposed in part B of document GB.320/POL/10 for collecting information on the effect given to the MNE Declaration, thereby superseding its decisions taken at its 209th (March 1979) and 258th (November 1993) Sessions;

(c) instructed the Office to commence the approved implementation strategy in 2014;

(d) requested the Director-General to seek extra-budgetary resource mobilization especially for the promotional activities; and

(e) decided to review the adopted MNE Declaration follow-up mechanism in 2018.

(Document GB.320/POL/10, paragraph 27.)