rules to ensure that all questions relating to the selection of the Members of chief industrial importance are considered by an impartial committee before being decided by the Governing Body. Any appeal made by a Member from the declaration of the Governing Body as to which are the Members of chief industrial importance shall be decided by the Conference, but an appeal to the Conference shall not suspend the application of the declaration until such time as the Conference decides the appeal.]

representatives of governments shall be filled as follows:

(a) They shall be distributed among four geographi- cal regions (Africa. America, Asia and Europe) to be adjusted, if necessary, by mutual agreement among all the governments concerned. Each of these regions shall be assigned a number of seats based on the application of equal weighting of the number of States Members within the region, their total population and their economic activity assessed by appropriate criteria (gross national product or contributions to the budget of the Organisation), it being understood that no region shall have fewer than twelve seats and none more than fifteen seats. For the application of this subparagraph, the initial distribution of seats shall be as follows: Africa: thirteen seats; America: twelve seats; Asia and Europe: alternately fifteen and fourteen seats.

During the International Labour Conference, the Government delegates representing States Members belonging to the different regions referred to in subparagraph (a) of this paragraph, or those which are attached to them by mutual agreement, or are invited to the corresponding Regional Conference under the conditions set out in paragraph 4 below, shall constitute the electoral colleges responsible for appointing the members to fill the seats assigned to each of the said regions. The Government delegates representing the States of Western Europe and those representing the socialist States of Eastern Europe shall constitute separate electoral colleges. They shall agree to divide between them the seats assigned to the region and shall select separately their rep- resentatives on the Governing Body.

(ii) When the special characteristics of a region so require, the governments of that region may agree to form subdivisions on a sub- regional basis to appoint separately Members to fill the seats assigned to the subregion concerned.

(iii) The appointments shall be communicated to the college of Government delegates to the Conference in order for it to proclaim the results. If the electoral process or its results in a region or subregion are the subject of dispute which cannot be settled at those levels, the College of Government delegates to the Conference shall take a decision in the framework of the provisions of the relevant protocol.

(c) Each electoral college shall take the necessary steps to ensure that a substantial number of Members appointed to fill the seats assigned to that region is chosen on the basis of the size of their population and that an equitable geo-

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