The Consultative Assembly was most interested in the Ninth Report submitted to it by the International Labour Organisation and warmly welcomes the assistance given by ILO during the past year to European organisations concerned with social matters.
The results of the Tripartite Conference communicated to the Assembly by the Committee of Ministers have been studied very carefully and have been most helpful in preparing the Assembly's Opinion on the European Social Charter drafted by the governmental experts.
The Assembly expresses the hope that the co-operation between the ILO and the Council of Europe, a co-operation in which it is anxious to take an ever more active part, will continue to be fruitful, in particular when other European conventions on social matters are being drawn up within the framework of the Council of Europe.
The Assembly has also noted with pleasure the ILO Experts' recommendations on social security for migrant workers and equality of treatment for nationals and non-nationals ; it expresses its satisfaction that these subjects have been placed on the agenda of the 1961 International Labour Conference.
In the sphere of vocational training, the Assembly welcomes the intensified cooperation between ILO and the Council of Europe Special Representative for National Refugees and Over-population, tangible results of which can be found in the plan for the establishment of an accelerated training centre for adults in Turkey.
The Assembly is glad to note that in the framework of occupational information ILO is setting up a scheme to facilitate the exchange of building workers between the countries of Western Europe, the importance of which the Assembly had indeed stressed in its Resolution 108 (1956) in reply to the Sixth Report of ILO and its Recommendation 154 (1958).
Lastly, the Assembly noted with interest the results of the 43rd Session of the International Labour Organisation Conference, particularly the resolutions concerning the possibility of adopting a convention on the protection of workers against the harmful effects of ionising radiations and on the development of ILO activities in respect of under-developed countries.