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

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Failure to submit. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government indicating that the Safe and Healthy Working Environment (Consequential Amendments) Convention (No. 191) was submitted to the competent authority. With regard to the Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190), the Government informs of the issuance of the Council of Ministers Decision No. 24015 of 2024, which includes referring Convention No. 190 to the Council of Representatives for the act of accession to the Convention to be issued. It also notes that, in March 2017, the Government had supplied information indicating that the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, was submitted to the competent authority. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the date in which the abovementioned instruments were submitted to the Council of Representatives (Majlis Al-Nuwaab).

With respect to the submissions pending as regards Recommendations adopted by the Conference, the Committee notes the Government’s indication that the Quality Apprenticeships Recommendation, 2023 (No. 208) was submitted to the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. It also notes that, in November 2017, the Government had informed about the dates of submission to the Council of Representatives of all the instruments adopted by the Conference at its 88th, 90th, 92nd, 95th, 96th, 99th, 100th and 101st Sessions (2000–12). From among these instruments, while the Recommendations had been submitted to the Council of Representatives, they were not examined and were instead transmitted to the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs which, the Government considers to be the competent authority with respect to Recommendations. The Committee wishes to point out that having all international labour standards adopted by the Conference, including Recommendations, brought before a deliberative body for discussion (such as the Council of Representatives), as envisaged by the 2005 Memorandum concerning the obligation to submit Conventions and Recommendations to the competent authorities (Part II(c)), would add the value of parliamentary debate and proceedings in considering whether any action should be taken at the national level in the respective area.

In this context, the Committee notes that the Government has requested technical assistance from the Office for advice on national legislation concerning the 12 instruments pending submission adopted by the Conference between 2000 and 2015, as well as the Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205). The Committee trusts that the requested technical assistance will take place as soon as possible. It requests the Government to provide information on any developments in this respect, including measures taken with a view to submitting the above-mentioned 12 instruments also to the Council of Representatives for its information and, where applicable, action or recommendation, even if as indicated by the Government the authority to take or approve any measures may lie with the Council of Ministers. In addition, the Committee once again requests the Government to provide information on the submission to the Council of Representatives of the Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205), and the Violence and Harassment Convention (No. 190) and Recommendation (No. 206), 2019. Lastly, the Committee requests the Government to provide information on the submission to the Council of Representatives 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).