The European Committee of Social Rights adopts ‘conclusions’ in respect of national reports submitted by States Parties and ‘decisions’ in respect of collective complaints lodged by entitled organisations. A summary of the interpretation given by the European Committee of Social Rights to each of the provisions of the European Social Charter can be found in the Digest of the case law of the European Committee of Social Rights. 

More information on the European Committee of Social Rights can be found in its Rules and on the relevant page of the European Social Charter’s website.

Under the reporting procedure, the European Committee of Social Rights addressed the following targeted questions to States Parties of the European Social Charter relating to thematic group 4 on "children, families and migrants" for Conclusions 2023: : 

 Questions to States Parties to the Revised European Social Charter
 Questions to States Parties to the 1961 Charter

States Parties were invited to report on these questions by 31 December 2022. Trade unions, employers’ organisations, non-governmental organisations, national human rights institutions and national equality bodies were invited to submit their comments on national reports for this cycle by 30 June 2023. States' reports and comments were examined by the European Committee of Social Rights in 2023 and its conclusions will be made public in March 2024. 

In accordance with the decision of the Ministers’ Deputies adopted on 27 September 2022 concerning the new system for the presentation of reports under the European Social Charter, the next ordinary report from the States Parties on the accepted provisions of the Charter will concern one half of the Charter provisions (Group 1) and will be due by 31 December 2024.

 See previous conclusion below.

 In the framework of the reporting procedure, the States Parties to the collective complaints procedure submit reports on follow-up to decisions in complaints every other year. In 2023, the European Committee of Social Rights examined reports submitted by Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy and Portugal by the deadline of 31 December 2022 and will publish its Findings 2023 on the basis of these reports and any other relevant information in March 2024.

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Following the decision of the Ministers’ Deputies of 27 September 2022, States Parties to the complaints procedure will, as from 2024, submit only one single report on follow-up to decisions in complaints (with a deadline two years after the adoption of the Committee of Ministers’ recommendation in respect of the decision concerned).

Pursuant to the decision of the Ministers’ Deputies of 27 September 2022 , the European Committee of Social Rights and the Governmental Committee in 2023 decided to request an ad hoc report on the cost-of-living crisis to all States Parties.  

 To assist the States Parties in drawing up these reports, the European Committee of Social Rights addressed to them a set of specific questions concerning the cost-of-living crisis:
 Questions to State Parties on ad hoc reports concerning the cost of living crisis.

The deadline for States Parties for submitting the ad hoc reports was 31 December 2023.

Third party organisations have been invited to submit additional information to ECSR on ad hoc reports on the cost-of-living crisis by 30 June 2024