Voting rights 
Subsidiary
bodies Executive Board
Director-General
Each Member State whose
credentials have been found to comply with Rule 23
of the Rules of Procedure shall have one vote in the General Conference or in any of its
committees, commissions and other subsidiary organs, unless it has not satisfied the
provisions of paragraph 2 of Rule 83 of the Rules of Procedure (however, the General
Conference may decide, on an exceptional basis and under certain conditions, to grant it
full voting rights).
Such Member State, however,
shall have no vote in the General Conference or in any of its committees, commissions and
other subsidiary organs if the total amount of contributions due from it exceeds the total
amount of the contributions payable by it for the current year and the immediately
preceding calendar year, unless the General Conference is satisfied that the failure to
pay is due to conditions beyond the control of the Member State.
Before each ordinary session
of the General Conference the Director-General shall, using the most reliable and rapid
channels, notify Member States in danger of losing voting rights in accordance with the
provisions of Article IV.C,
paragraph 8 (b), of the Constitution concerning their financial position
with respect to the Organization and the provisions of the Constitution and Rules relating
thereto, at least six months before the General Conference session is due to open.
Member States shall address
their communications invoking the provisions of Article IV.C, paragraph 8 (c), to
the Director-General, who shall transmit them to the Administrative Commission of the
General Conference. That Commission shall take up the matter at the commencement of its
work and issue in plenary meeting, as a matter of priority, a report and recommendations
on the subject.
The aforesaid communications
from Member States shall be submitted no later than three days after the commencement of
the proceedings of the General Conference. In the absence of such a communication from the
Member States concerned, the latter may no longer be authorized to take part in voting at
that session of the General Conference.
After that time limit has
passed, and pending a decision by the General Conference in plenary meeting, only those
Member States concerned that have submitted the above communication shall have the right
to vote.
Any decision to permit a
Member State in arrears in the payment of its contributions to vote shall be made
conditional upon that Member State’s observance of the recommendations for settlement
of the arrears made by the General Conference.
One Member State may not
represent or vote for another.
