(8c) The Platform should fully respect and act in accordance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, in particular Articles 5, 15, 28 and 31 thereof, and the relevant conventions and recommendations of the ILO, in particular Convention No 81concerning Labour Inspection in Industry and Commerce, Convention No 189 concerning decent work for domestic workers, Convention No 150 concerning Labour Administration: Role, Functions and Organisation and Recommendation No 198 concer ...[+++]ning the employment relationship.

– having regard to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) fundamental labour standards and to its conventions and recommendations on labour administration and labour inspection (Conventions 81 and 129), which are an international benchmark for ensuring that legal provisions concerning working conditions and worker protectio ...[+++]n are applied,

EU countries must ensure their administrations implement the relevant international conventions* concerning the inspection and certification of ships flying their flag.

Member States should, if they have not already done so, ratify and implement all relevant international Conventions, including the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, its supplementary Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children and the Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and their Families, the Council of Europe Convention on Action ag ...[+++]ainst Trafficking in Human Beings, International Labour Organisation Conventions and core labour standards, in particular No 29 concerning forced labour, No 182 concerning the prohibition and immediate action for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour, and those relating to freedom of association, labour inspection and employment agencies,

Member States should, if they have not already done so, ratify and implement all relevant international Conventions, including the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, its supplementary Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children and the Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, the UN Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and their Families, the Council of Europe Convention on Action ag ...[+++]ainst Trafficking in Human Beings, International Labour Organisation Conventions and core labour standards, in particular No 29 concerning forced labour, No 182 concerning the prohibition and immediate action for the elimination of the worst forms of child labour, and those relating to freedom of association, labour inspection and employment agencies,

The specialised technical competence of the labour inspection is frequently called into question, especially in Member States with general inspections, while in Member States with specialised inspections, the most frequent criticism concerns the lack of inspectors.