Solicitud directa sobre sumisión a las autoridades competentes (CEACR) - Adopción: 2024, Publicación: 113ª reunión CIT (2025)

Santo Tomé y Príncipe

Submission. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in May 2024 informing of the submission to President of the Council of Ministers of the following instruments: the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204), the Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205), the Violence and Harassment Recommendation, 2019 (No. 206), the Safe and Healthy Working Environment (Consequential Amendments) Recommendation, 2023 (No. 207) and the Quality Apprenticeships Recommendation, 2023 (No. 208). The Committee observes, however, that the Government does not provide information on the submission of the pending instruments to the National Assembly. In this respect, the Committee recalls that, for the purposes of article 19 of the ILO Constitution, discussion in a deliberative assembly – or at a minimum transmission to a deliberative assembly of information concerning the instruments adopted by the International Labour Conference – is an essential component of the constitutional obligation to submit, as indicated in the 2005 Memorandum (Memorandum concerning the obligation to submit Conventions and Recommendations to the competent authorities, adopted by the Governing Body in 2005,Part I(c) and II(c)). The objective of the obligation to submit is twofold: (1) to encourage ratification or application of instruments adopted by the Conference through submission to the competent authority empowered to consider ratification; and (2) to bring the instruments adopted by the Conference to the knowledge of the public through their submission to a parliamentary or deliberative body.

Lastly, the Committee recalls that in its 2017 comments, it noted the information provided by the Government indicating that Recommendation No. 203 and Recommendation No. 204 were submitted to the National Assembly. However, the Government did not indicate the dates of submission of those instruments. The Committee therefore once again reiterates its request that the Government provide information on the date of submission to the National Assembly of Recommendations Nos 203 and 204, adopted at the 103rd and 104th Sessions of the Conference, respectively, and that it provide information on the submission to the National Assembly of the Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, adopted by the Conference at its 103rd Session, the Employment and Decent Work for Peace and Resilience Recommendation, 2017 (No. 205), adopted by the Conference at its 106th Session, as well as the Violence and Harassment Convention (No. 190) and Recommendation (No. 206), 2019, adopted by the Conference at its 108th Session. 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, 2023 (No. 207) and the Quality Apprenticeships Recommendation, 2023 (No. 208), adopted by the Conference at its 111th Session.