such modifications of tliese provisions as liave been found or may be found necessary in adopting or applying them.

8. In no oase shall the adoption of any Covention or Recommendation by the Conference, or the ratifaetion of any Convention by any Member, be deemed to affect any law, award, custom or agreement which ensures more favourable conditions to the workers concerned than those provided for in the Convention or Recommendation.

Article 20.

Any Convention so ratified shall be communicated by the Director-General of the International Labour Office to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for registration m accordance with the provisions of Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations but shall only be binding upon the Members which ratify it.

Article 21.

1. If any Convention coming before the Conference for final consideration fails to secure the support of two thirds of the votes cast by the delegates present, it shall neverthelessbe within the right of any of the Members of the Organisation to agree to such Convention among themselves.

2. Any Convention so agreed to shall be communicated by the Governments concerned to the Director-General of the international Labour Office and to the Secretary-General of . United Nations for registration in accordance with the prov sions of Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.

Article 22.

Each of the Members agrees to make an annual _ report to the International Labour Office on the measures_ which it taken to give effect to the provisions of Conventions to w ^ it is a party. These reports shall be made in such form and s ^ contain such particulars as the Governing Body may req

Article 23.

1. The Director-General shall lay before the next of the Conference a summary of the information and ^g communicated to him by Members in pursuance of A 1 and 22.