Recalling its own commitments made in Resolution 1792 (2011)
on the monitoring of commitments concerning social rights, the Assembly
accordingly calls upon the Committee of Ministers to:
4.1 acknowledge that social rights
are indivisible from human rights and continue promoting their fulfilment
through firm recommendations addressed to member states in the framework
of the supervisory process related to the European Social Charter;
4.2 continue promoting the revised European Social Charter
among the member states which have not yet ratified this authoritative
instrument on modern social rights;
4.3 continue encouraging member states which have not ratified
the 1995 Additional Protocol Providing for a System of Collective
Complaints (ETS No. 158) to do so, and to ask them to secure to national
non-governmental organisations the right to submit such complaints,
following the good practice of Finland;
4.4 urge the four Parties to the European Social Charter which
have not yet ratified the Amending Protocol of 1991 (ETS No. 142)
(known as the “Turin Protocol”) – namely, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg
and the United Kingdom – do so as soon as possible, to allow proper
application of the monitoring system prescribed by the Charter and
to allow, finally, for the election of the 15 members of the European
Committee of Social Rights by the Assembly;
4.5 if the Turin Protocol does not come into force by June
2012, ensure that the Assembly can fully discharge its appointed
function in the Charter’s monitoring machinery as of 2013 by adopting
a unanimous decision to that effect as was done on previous occasions
to ensure the application of other provisions of the Turin Protocol;
4.6 revise the collective complaints procedure provided for
by the Additional Protocol of 1995 so as to allow the Assembly and
other stakeholders to intervene as a third party where appropriate.