Aanvullend Protocol bij het Europees Sociaal Handvest betreffende een systeem voor collectieve klachten
Aanvullend Protocol bij het Europees Sociaal Handvest betreffende een systeem voor collectieve klachten
Opschrift
Additional Protocol to the European Social Charter providing for a system of collective complaints
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Preamble
The member States of the Council of Europe, signatories to this Protocol to the European Social Charter, opened for signature in Turin on 18 October 1961 (hereinafter referred to as ``the Charter");
Resolved to take new measures to improve the effective enforcement of the social rights guaranteed by the Charter;
Considering that this aim could be achieved in particular by the establishment of a collective complaints procedure, which, inter alia, would strengthen the participation of management and labour and of non-governmental organisations,
Have agreed as follows:
Article 1
The Contracting Parties to this Protocol recognise the right of the following organisations to submit complaints alleging unsatisfactory application of the Charter:
international organisations of employers and trade unions referred to in paragraph 2 of Article 27 of the Charter;
other international non-governmental organisations which have consultative status with the Council of Europe and have been put on a list established for this purpose by the Governmental Committee;
representative national organisations of employers and trade unions within the jurisdiction of the Contracting Party against which they have lodged a complaint.