Ad Hoc Committee on Statelessness and Related Problems, Decisions of the Committee on Statelessness and Related Problems Taken at the Morning Meeting of 26 January 1950

E/AC.32/L.11

Ad Hoc Committee on Statelessness and Related Problems
Decisions of the Committee on Statelessness and Related Problems taken at the morning meeting of 26 January 1950

Article 13

1. The High Contracting Parties undertake to accord to refugees regularly resident in their territory the most favourable treatment given in the country in question to nationals of a foreign country as regards the right to engage in wage-earning employment.

2. In any case, the restrictive measures ensuing from the application of laws and regulations for the protection of the national labour market shall not apply to refugees who were already exempted from them at the date of signature of the present Convention or who fulfil one of the following conditions:

(a) having completed three years' residence in the country;

(b) having as spouse a person possessing the nationality of the country of residence;

(c) having one or more children possessing the nationality of the country of residence.

3. The High Contracting Parties shall give sympathetic consideration to assimilating the rights of refugees in this regard, so far as possible, to those of nationals, particularly with regard to refugees who enter their territory pursuant to programmes of labour recruitment or under immigration schemes.

Article 14 Self-employment

The High Contracting Parties undertake to accord to refugees regularly resident in their territory the most favourable treatment possible, and in any event, not less favourable than that given to foreigners generally, as regards the right to engage in agriculture, industry, handicrafts and commerce and to establish commercial and industrial companies.

Article 15 Liberal Professions

The High Contracting Parties undertake to accord to refugees regularly resident in their territory who hold diplomas recognized by the competent authorities of the country of residence, and who are desirous of practicing liberal professions, the most favourable treatment possible, and in any event, not less favourable than that given to foreigners generally.