The document outlines the process for ratifying International Labor Organization (ILO) conventions in the Philippines. It involves consultation, a decision to ratify by the Department of Labor and Employment and Department of Foreign Affairs, endorsement to the Office of the President, concurrence by the Senate, and transmittal to the ILO. Ratification creates binding obligations, while recommendations provide guidance without ratification. Member states must report annually on measures taken to implement conventions they have ratified.

1. International Relations and Cooperation Division
INTERNATIONAL LABOR AFFAIRS BUREAU
Intramuros, Manila

2. An instrument which upon
ratification creates binding
obligation.
RECOMMENDATION
• An instrument not subject to
ratification but provides guidance
to policy, legislation and practice.

3. Is an act through which a
member State formally
undertakes to make the
provisions of the ILO
Convention effective both
law and in practice

4. EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 459
An Act “Providing for the
Guidelines in the Negotiation
of International Agreements
and its ratification,” approved
on 25 November 1997.

5. Department of Labor
& Employment (DOLE)
Department of Foreign
Affairs (DFA)
Office of the President
(OP)
MISUNPHIL
ILO
(3)
(4)
Senate of the Philippines
Committee on Foreign
Relations
(5) (6)
(7)
(8)
Yes
DECISION TO
RATIFY
Measures Leading to
Ratification in the
Future
(2)
(2)
(3)
No
CONSULTATION(1)

6. 1. Consultation
2. Decision to Ratify
3. Endorsement to DOLE
4. Endorsement to DFA
5. Submission to the Office of the
President
6. Concurrence by the Senate
7. Return to OP for submission to
DFA
8. Transmittal to ILO

7. Twelve (12) months after ILO’s
registration of the member
State’s ratification

8. Article 22 of the ILO Constitution
states that ratifying member
States of a certain Convention
agrees to make an annual report
to the ILO on the measures taken
to give effect to the provisions of
Conventions to which it is a party.

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