15. Welcomes the fact that Ecuador has ratified all eight fundamental ILO conventions; insists on the importance of swift ratification and effective implementation of all ILO conventions by Ecuador and all the EU Member States; regrets that Ecuador has not yet ratified ILO Convention 129, and calls on the Commission to support the efforts of Ecuador to progress in the effective application thereof; calls on the Ecuadorian Government to follow the recommendations of the ILO’s Committee of Experts for effective application of ILO Conventions 87 and 98 and emphasises the importance of the possibility for workers to be able to change or establish new trade unions, for reasons of independence, effectiveness and ideological affinity, and recal ...[+++]ls in particular that the ILO has requested that the Ecuadorian Government take the legislative action necessary to comply with the provisions of Article 2 of the Convention;

8. Recalls the need to combine and strengthen efforts to eradicate labour exploitation, particularly of women and children, to put an end to social dumping practices that undermine human development, and to improve working conditions across the global value chain by involving buyers as well as producers, as implemented recently in Bangladesh and Myanmar; recalls the need for the Commission to maintain the highest level of cooperation with the ILO, not least in the context of the September 2015 UN Sustainable Development Summit; calls for the EU to promote on the global stage the integration into trade policy of the objectives of the IL ...[+++]O’s Decent Work Agenda, as endorsed by the ILO member states in the Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalisation, unanimously approved in 2008; also calls for the EU to make full use of the expertise provided by all ILO bodies, in particular the Committee of Experts and the Committee on Application of Standards; urges the EU to include an ambitious and effective sustainable development chapter in all trade policy agreements; also recalls in this context the vital role that trade agreements concluded by the EU as well as other instruments, such as the Generalised Scheme of Preferences, can play in fostering the implementation of ILO standards and thus in encouraging decent working conditions globally;

The Report concludes that the progress made by Myanmar/Burma towards complying with the ILO recommendations, which has been acknowledged by the competent ILO monitoring bodies, means that violations of the principles laid down in ILO Convention No 29 are no longer considered as ‘serious and systematic’ and recommends that access to generalised tariff preferences should be reinstated to Myanmar/Burma.

[16] UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, New York, 18 December 1979, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, p. 13, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 20 November 1989, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1577, p. 3, ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No 29), ILO Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957 (No 105), ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No 182) and ILO Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No 189).

20. Welcomes the fact that Colombia and Peru have ratified all eight fundamental ILO conventions plus three of the four governance conventions, as stated by the ILO representative at the public hearing held by the Committee on International Trade on the Trade Agreement at the European Parliament in Brussels on 29 February 2012; insists on the importance of swift ratification and effective implementation of all such ILO conventions, especially C122 in the case of Colombia and C129 in the case of Peru; underlines to all parties the importance of ratifying ILO Convention 135 on workers' representatives; notes in this context that 24 EU M ...[+++]ember States have still not ratified ILO C169, the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention;

20. Supports therefore the ILO´s efforts to enhance substantially its means for promoting respect for core labour standards, asks for more discussion within the ILO on further steps to reinforce the effectiveness of ILO monitoring, including better publicity, more effective follow-up and ways of enhancing the status of the findings of the ILO supervisory mechanism throughout the international system; calls in this context for a joint WTO and ILO working programme to implement the ILO's 1998 conference Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work;