REGISTER to training on Collective Complaints Mechanism (Reminder)

 
Day: January 29, 2014 Time: 14.00-17.00 Place: Council of Europe’s Office in Brussels (85, Avenue de Nerviens, B – 1040 Bruxelles)

Council of Europe and Social Platform are happy to invite key European INGOs to an awareness-raising training on how to use collective complaints mechanism of the Social Charter.

Registration deadline has expired but there is still seats left – please register to Annica Ryngbeck (Policy Officer) at Social Platform.

Please state the following information in your registration:

  • Name, Position, Organisation
  • If your organisation does not already have status to lodge complaint, please state whether your organisation is eligeble to apply and whether you can have the capacity to take on complaints in the future.

 

On the day of the training Jan 29, at 10.00 the Council of Europe will ha a press briefing to mark the publication of the Conclusions of the Committee on the implementation by the States concerned of the following articles: Art 3 (the right to safe and healthy working conditions), Art 11 (the right to protection of health), Art 12 (the right to social security), Art 13 (the right to social and medical assistance), Art 14 (the right to benefit from social welfare services) and Art 23 and Art 30 . The briefing is open to members of Social Platform and other representatives.

 

DRAFT AGENDA

French / English interpretation will be provided.

14.00-16.00 Session I PRESENTATIONS BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND DISCUSSION

  • Regis Brillat, Executive Secretary of the European Committee of Social Rights, Council of Europe: “The collective complaints’ procedure: procedural aspects of the mechanism”
  • Luis Jimena Quesada, President of the European Committee of Social Rights, Council of Europe: “Interpretation rules of the European Committee of Social Rights: substantial issues concerning the collective complaint procedure”
  • Discussion with participants concerning the procedural and substantial issues of the collective complaints mechanism

 

16.00-17.00 Session II EXCHANGE OF VIEWS AND EXPERIENCES AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIAL PLATFORM

Presentation by different INGOs on their experiences in lodging complaints and identification of possible INGOs that may lodge complaints in the future with respect to the specific provisions of the Charter

2014-01-15