Direct Request on submission to competent authorities (CEACR) - adopted 2025, published 114th ILC session (2026)

Jordan

Submission. The Committee notes the Government’s indication that the seven instruments adopted by the Conference between 2015 and 2023 will be reviewed in consultation with the tripartite constituents to assess the possibility of their ratification. The Government adds that a statement on whether they can be ratified will be issued for submission to the competent authority. The Committee recalls in that regard that in September 2023 the Government had already indicated that, following consultations with the social partners, the necessary measures would be taken to issue a Council of Ministers’ decision regarding the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204), and the Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205). The Government had also indicated that: (i) on 29 June 2022, the Tripartite Committee for Labour Affairs had decided that the Government should proceed with the ratification of the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190); and that (ii) the communications with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs and other relevant authorities concerned were envisaged to request their opinion in accordance with the Prime Minister’s Circular No. 20/11/23/27129 of 28 October 2022 regarding the procedure to be followed for, inter alia, the ratification of Conventions.

Taking due note of this information, the Committee once again recalls that, as per the 2005 Memorandum on submissions, regardless of whether a ratification is considered, discussion in a deliberative assembly – or, at a minimum, transmission to a deliberative assembly of information concerning the instruments adopted by the Conference – is an essential component of the constitutional obligation to submit (Memorandum concerning the obligation to submit Conventions and Recommendations to the competent authority, 2005, Part II (c)). The objective of the obligation to submit is indeed twofold: (1) to bring the instruments adopted by the Conference to the knowledge of the public through their submission to a competent authority, usually a parliamentary or deliberative body, and (2) to encourage their ratification or application. According to article 19 of the ILO Constitution, Member States are entirely free to decide what kind of proposals, if any, they wish to make when submitting the instruments (2005 Memorandum, Parts I (a) and (c) and III(b)).

The Committee also emphasizes that the obligation of ILO Member States to submit the instruments adopted by the Conference to the competent authority needs to be differentiated from the act of ratification. Although one of the purposes of submission is to encourage the ratification of Conventions, it does not create any obligation to propose ratification, apply or take any other specific action with respect to the instruments concerned. The Committee therefore once again reiterates its request that the Government provide information on the submission to the House of Representatives (Majlis Al-Nuwaab) of the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204), adopted at the 104th Session of the Conference, the Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205), adopted by the Conference at its 106th Session, the Violence and Harassment Convention (No. 190) and Recommendation (No. 206), 2019, adopted by the Conference at its 108th Session, 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.

The Committee trusts that the Government will provide the information requested without further delay.