Speaking in plenary during the 112th Session of the International Labour Conference

Speakers accredited either as delegates or as “advisers and substitute delegates” acting on behalf of delegates. 

One delegate or attending minister representing the Government, one delegate representing the Employers and one delegate representing the Workers may participate in the discussion in respect of each Member State. A visiting Head of State or Government may speak in addition to the Government delegate or minister. 

According to article 23.3 of the Standing Orders, no speaker may speak in the discussion more than once, except in those cases when a speaker is granted a right to reply by the Conference plenary chairing officer.

In light of the decision the Governing Body took to recommend to the Conference that the Appendix to the Report of the Director-General on "The situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories" be discussed in the framework of a special sitting, the proposed suspension of article  23.3 would allow delegates, at this Session, to deliver a separate statement at the special sitting.

• To speak on the main reports of the Director-General and on the Governing Body Chairperson’s report, please register in advance through this registration form for the list of speakers for the regular plenary sittings.
• To speak in the special sitting on the annex to the thematic Report of the Director-General, on "The situation of workers of the occupied Arab territories", please register in advance through this registration form for the list of speakers for the special plenary sitting. 
• Information required include the name, country, group (whether government, employer or worker delegate, invited international organization), and contact information of the speaker, including a mobile number in case of urgent need.

For statements made on 6 June during the special sitting on the appendix to the report of the Director-General, on "The situation of workers in the occupied Arab territories”, the time limit will be a maximum of 3 minutes (approximately 360 words).

To allow as many speakers as possible to take the floor during the discussion of the report of the Chairperson of the Governing Body and the other parts of the reports of the Director-General, the time limit for speeches is set at a maximum of five minutes.

For participants’ information, allowance corresponds to approximately two typewritten double-spaced A4 pages (or 600 words), read at a speed that allows accurate simultaneous interpretation, that is 120 words per minute.