Decision on the seventh item on the agenda: Recommendations of the tripartite ad hoc working group concerning the review of the Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy text, annex and addenda and the interpretation procedure

Record of decisions | 20 March 2017

Decision on the seventh item on the agenda: Recommendations of the tripartite ad hoc working group concerning the review of the Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy text, annex and addenda and the interpretation procedure

The Governing Body:

(a) took note of the report of the ad hoc working group figuring in the Appendix to document GB.329/POL/7, and approved the revised Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (MNE Declaration) and its revised Introduction contained in the Annex of the report;

(b) requested the Director-General to communicate the revised MNE Declaration and its revised Introduction:

(i) to governments, requesting them to communicate them to employers’ and workers’ organizations with a view to further transmission to multinational enterprises and workers’ representatives concerned;

(ii) to the international employers’ and workers’ organizations concerned;

(iii) to the other international organizations concerned;

(c) requested the Director-General:

(i) to put in place a communication strategy to give visibility to the revised MNE Declaration including a strategy for translation into the languages in which the previous editions were available;

(ii) to support the appointment and functioning of the national focal points to promote the use of the MNE Declaration and its principles, whenever appropriate and meaningful in the national context;

(iii) to operationalize the company–union dialogue facilitation service of the Office in line with point 2 in Annex II; and

(iv) to organize and/or support appropriate tripartite event(s) for the 40th anniversary of the MNE Declaration starting in November 2017; and

(d) requested the Director-General to make available, to the extent possible within existing resource levels, the necessary resources to implement the actions under paragraph (c) above or to facilitate resource mobilization efforts to that effect.

(Document GB.329/POL/7, paragraph 5, as amended by the Governing Body.)