Article 39

The organisation of trade unions shall be free. Trade unions shall be subject to no obligations other than registration at local or central offices, in accordance with the law. A required condition for such registration shall be that the internal organisation of trade unions, as enshrined in their statutes, be founded on a democratic basis. Registered trade unions shall have legal personality. They may, jointly represented in proportion to their membership, enter into collective labour agreements that shall have binding force upon all those belonging to the categories covered by the said agreements.