In the earlier meeting of the Group it was recommended that an inventory of the existing country practices to define the informal sector or the related concept be prepared by the ILO. The paper ‘Enhancing the international comparability of informal sector statistics a review of national definitions of the informal sector and a proposal for harmonised definition for international reporting’ presented by Mrs. Brigitte du Jeu (ILO), responds to this, as it presents a synoptic table of the country practices by continents highlighting (i) the mandatory criteria from the Resolution concerning statistics of employment in the informal sector adopted by the 15^th ICLS, (ii) the scope and treatment of special cases of workers and (iii) the other criteria applied by the countries. In view of enhancing the international comparability of informal sector statistics from the country practices, a framework has been proposed in the paper to agree on a harmonised definition, based on the idea of finding the largest common denominator, for international reporting. In fact the framework proposed in the paper for the international reporting of informal sector statistics provided the basis for discussion on the subject and helped formulating the recommendations.