Each Member shall adopt and develop comprehensive and concerted policies and programmes of vocational guidance and training by establishing, in particular through the provision of public employment services, a close relationship between Vocational guidance and training and employment.

2. These policies and programs should take into account:

(a)

Employment needs, opportunities and problems at both regional and national levels;

(b)

The stage and level of economic, social and cultural development;

(c)

The relationship between human resource development objectives and other economic, social and cultural objectives.

3. These policies and programmes will be applied by methods adapted to national conditions.

4. These policies and programs should aim to improve the individual's ability to understand and influence the workplace and the social environment, both individually and collectively.

5. These policies and programmes shall encourage and assist all persons, on an equal footing and without discrimination, to develop and use their professional skills in their own interest and in accordance with their Aspirations, while taking into account the needs of society.

In order to achieve the above objectives, each Member shall develop and develop open, flexible and complementary systems of general, technical and vocational education, education and vocational guidance, and Vocational training, whether these activities take place inside or outside the school system.

1. Each Member shall progressively extend its vocational guidance systems and continuous employment information systems, with a view to providing comprehensive information and guidance to children as broadly as possible. Adolescents and adults, including through appropriate programs for persons with disabilities.

2. This information and guidance will have to cover the choice of a profession, vocational training and educational opportunities, employment status and employment prospects, promotion opportunities, Working conditions, occupational safety and health and other aspects of working life in the various sectors of economic, social and cultural activity and at all levels of responsibility.

3. This information and guidance will need to be supplemented by information on the general aspects of collective agreements and the rights and obligations of all parties concerned in accordance with labour legislation; Information shall be provided in accordance with national law and practice, taking into account the respective functions and tasks of the organisations of workers and employers concerned.

Each Member shall progressively extend, adapt and harmonise its various vocational training systems to meet the needs of adolescents and adults, throughout their lives, in all sectors of the economy, in all sectors of the economy. Branches of economic activity and all levels of professional qualification and responsibility.

Policies and vocational guidance and training programmes will be developed and implemented in collaboration with employers'and workers' organisations and, where appropriate, in accordance with national law and practice, With other interested organizations.

The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be communicated to and registered by the Director General of the International Labour Office.

(1) This Convention shall only bind the Members of the International Labour Organization whose ratification has been registered by the Director General.

2. It shall enter into force twelve months after the ratifications of two Members have been registered by the Director General.

3. Thereafter, this Convention shall enter into force for each Member twelve months after the date on which its ratification has been registered.

1. Any Member having ratified this Convention may denounce it at the expiration of a period of ten years after the date of the initial entry into force of the Convention by an act communicated to the Director General of the International Labour Office And by registered him. The denunciation shall take effect only one year after being registered.

2. Any Member having ratified this Convention which, within one year of the expiration of the ten-year period referred to in the preceding paragraph, shall not make use of the right of denunciation provided for in this Article shall be bound For a new period of ten years and thereafter may denounce this Convention at the expiration of each ten-year period under the conditions laid down in this Article.

The Director General of the International Labour Office shall notify all Members of the International Labour Organization of the registration of all ratifications and denunciations made available to it by the Members of the Organization.

2. By notifying the Members of the Organization of the registration of the second ratification which has been communicated to it, the Director General shall call the attention of the Members of the Organization on the date on which this Convention enters into force Vigor.

The Director General of the International Labour Office shall communicate to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, for the purposes of registration, in accordance with art. 102 of the United Nations Charter ¹ , complete information about all ratifications and all acts of denunciation which it has registered in accordance with the previous articles.

Whenever it deems it necessary, the Governing Council of the International Labour Office shall submit to the General Conference a report on the application of this Convention and consider whether it should be included in the agenda of the Conference the question of its total or partial revision.

1. In the event that the Conference adopts a new convention for the total or partial revision of this Convention, and unless the new Convention provides otherwise:

(a)

Ratification by a Member of the new revision agreement would automatically entail, notwithstanding s. 8 above, immediate denunciation of this Convention, provided that the new revision agreement has entered into force;

(b)

From the date of entry into force of the new revision agreement, this Convention shall cease to be open for ratification by Members.

(2) This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its form and content for Members who have ratified it and which do not ratify the revised Convention.

The English and French versions of the text of this Agreement are equally authentic.