The complaint, registered on 9 September 2013, relates to Article 5 (the right to organise) of the European Social Charter. The complainant organisation, the Bedriftsforbundet , alleged that the practice at Norwegian ports, requiring that employees have membership of the dock worker union in order to be allowed to take up work, constitutes a breach of the above mentioned provision.

• Case Document no. 1, Complaint registered on 9 September 2013
• Case Document no. 2, observations by the Government on admissibility
• Case Document no. 3, additional submissions to the complaint (I)
• Case Document no. 4, additional submissions to the complaint (II)
• Case Document no. 5, Response from Bedriftsforbundet to the observations by the Government on the admissibility
• Case Document no. 6, Additional submissions from Bedriftsforbundet on the admissibility
• Case Document no. 7, Additional information by the Government on the admissibility
• Case Document no. 8, Submissions of the Government on the merits
• Case Document no. 9, Observations by the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)
• Case Document no. 10, Response from Bedriftsforbundet to the Government's submissions on the merits
• Case Document no. 11, Additional submissions of the Government
• Case Document no. 12, Additional information from Bedriftsforbundet
• Case Document no. 13, Supplementary observations by the Government

The European Committee of Social Rights declared the complaint admissible on 14 May 2014.

The European Committee of Social Rights adopted its decision on merits on 17 May 2016.

In its decision on merits, the Committee concluded:

• Unanimously that there is no violation of Article 5 of the Charter.

The Committee of Ministers adopted Resolution CM/ResChS(2016)6 on 5 October 2016

 Decision on admissibility of the Complaint 103/2013

 Decision on the merits of the Complaint 103/2013

 Resolution ResChS(2016)6 of the Committee of Ministers on 5 October 2016