Granting of consultative status to certain trade union organisations

Report | Doc. 68 | 24 September 1952

Committee

Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee

Rapporteur :

Mr Henri C. J . HEYMAN, Belgium

Thesaurus

A Draft Opinion

The Assembly,

Having received from the Committee of Ministers a request for an Opinion.

a on the principle of granting to the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions and the European Regional Organisation of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions consultative status vis-à-vis the Council of Europe;

b on the provisions which it would be necessary to insert in the agreements to be concluded in ordConsidering that it would be of advantage for the Council of Europe, as its work develops, to maintain close contact with labour organisations,er to fix the relationship between the Assembly and these organisations,

Being of the opinion that this contact could be best established through international organisations representing large sections of public opinion,

Considering that the establishment of relations with such organisations might assist in spreading a knowledge of the aims and achievements of the Council of Europe,

Expresses the opinion,

a that consultative status should be granted by the Council of Europe to the two above-mentioned international federations of trade unions;

b that relations between the Consultative Assembly and the trade union organisations in question should be established on the basis suggested in the Memorandum by the Secretariat-General.