Observation on submission to competent authorities (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

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Serious failure to submit. The Committee notes once again with deep concern that the Government has provided no reply to its previous observations. In this context, it recalls once more that the constitutional obligation of submission is of the highest importance and is a fundamental element of the standards system of the ILO. The Committee expresses the firm hope, as did the Conference Committee in June 2017, June 2018, June 2019, June 2021, June 2022, June 2023, and June 2024 that the Government will comply with its obligation to submit Conventions, Recommendations and Protocols to the competent authority (the National Assembly). The Committee therefore once again urges the Government to provide information on the submission to the National Assembly of the 43 pending instruments adopted by the Conference at 22 sessions held between 1990 and 2019. It also requests the Government to provide information on the submission of the Safe and Healthy Working Environment (Consequential Amendments) Convention (No. 191) and Recommendation (No. 207), 2023, and the Quality Apprenticeships Recommendation, 2023 (No. 208), adopted by the Conference at its 111th Session. In this regard, the Committee once again reminds the Government of the availability of ILO technical assistance in meeting its submission obligations.