Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations : (articles 19, 22 and 35 of the Constitution).

CONTENTS -- List of Conventions by Subject -- Index of comments by Convention -- Index of comments by country -- Reader's note -- Overview of the ILO supervisory mechanisms -- Role of employers' and workers' organizations -- Origins of the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards and the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations -- Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations -- Committee on the Application of Standards of the International Labour Conference -- The Committee of Experts and the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards -- Part I. General Report -- I. Introduction -- Composition of the Committee -- Working methods -- Relations with the Conference Committee on the Application of Standards -- The Committee's views regarding its mandate -- Prior statements from the CEACR and the Employers regarding the Committee's mandate -- The non-binding nature of CEACR opinions and recommendations -- Proposed addition of a caveat to the Committee's General Surveys and Reports -- II. Compliance with obligations -- Follow-up to cases of serious failure by memberStates to fulfil reporting and other standards-related obligations mentioned in the report of the Committee on the Application of Standards -- A. Reports on ratified Conventions -- B. Examination by the Committee of Experts of reports on ratified Conventions -- C. Submission of instruments adopted by the Conference to the competent authorities -- D. Instruments chosen for reports under article 19 of the Constitution -- III. Collaboration with other international organizations and functions relating to other international instruments -- A. Cooperation with the United Nationsin the field of standards -- B. United Nations treaties concerning human rights -- C. European Code of Social Security and its Protocol.

Appendix to the General Report -- Part II. Observations concerning particular countries -- I. Observations concerning reports on ratified Conventions (articles 22, 23, paragraph 2, and 35, paragraphs 6 and 8, of the Constitution) -- General observation -- General observations -- Freedom of association, collective bargaining, and industrial relations -- Forced labour -- Elimination of child labour and protection of children and young persons -- Equality of opportunity and treatment -- Tripartite consultation -- Labour administration and inspection -- Employment policy and promotion -- Vocational guidance and training -- Employment security -- Wages -- Working time -- Occupational safety and health -- Social security -- Maternity protection -- Social policy -- Migrant workers -- Seafarers -- Fishers -- Dockworkers -- Indigenous and tribal peoples -- Specific categories of workers -- II. Observations concerning the submission to the competent authorities of the Conventions and Recommendations adopted by the International Labour Conference (article 19 of the Constitution) -- Appendices -- Appendix I. Table of reports received on ratified Conventions as of 7 December 2012 (articles 22 and 35 of the Constitution) -- Appendix II. Statistical table of reports received on ratified Conventions as of 7 December 2012 (article 22 of the Constitution) -- Appendix III. List of observations made by employers' and workers' organizations -- Appendix IV. Summary of information supplied by governments with regard to the obligation to submit the instruments adopted by the International Labour Conference to the competent authorities -- Appendix V. In formation supplied by governments with regard to the obligation to submit Conventions and Recommendations to the competent authorities (31st to 100th Sessions of the International Labour Conference, 1948-2011).

Appendix VI. Overall position of member States with regard tothe submission to the competent authorities ofthe instruments adopted by the Conference (as of 7 December 2012) -- Appendix VII. Comments made by the Committee, by country.