Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2006, published 96th ILC session (2007)

Tripartite Consultation (International Labour Standards) Convention, 1976 (No. 144) - Benin (Ratification: 2001)

Tripartite consultation required by the Convention. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government, which was received in November 2005 and August 2006. In response to the Committee’s 2004 direct request, the Government indicates that the text establishing the International Labour Standards Commission within the National Labour Council has still not been adopted. The Government points out that this situation does not, however, prevent consultation with the social partners on the international labour standards issues set out in Article 5, paragraph 1(a), (b) and (d) of the Convention. The Committee hopes that the advisory bodies for international labour standards will become effective in the near future. It asks the Government to provide, in its next report, more specific and more detailed information on the consultations required by Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Convention, and to indicate the frequency of such consultations and the nature of any reports or recommendations resulting therefrom. In this regard, the Committee recalls that certain matters covered by the Convention (replies to questionnaires, submissions to the National Assembly, and reports to be presented to the ILO on the application of ratified Conventions) involve annual consultation, while others (re-examination of non-ratified Conventions and of Recommendations, and proposals for the denunciation of ratified Conventions) require less frequent examination.