SCHEDULE FOR ACCELERATING THE PROCESS OF ANALYSIS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE FIRST ROUND[1]
Taking into account the decisions of the Conference of States Parties of MESICIC (April 1 and 2, 2004), the Committee of Experts (at its Sixth Meeting) agreed upon the following timetable in order to accelerate the process of analysis within the framework of the first round:
TWO annual meetings (SIX reports per meeting) for a total of TWELVE reports per year[2]
2004 - 2005/06 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008
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December 10, 2004 to January 10, 2005: period allotted for the States Party under review to respond to the comments from the subgroup and the Secretariat (Article 23 (e) of the Rules of Procedure). January 11 to 31, 2005: period allotted for the Secretariat to prepare the revised versions of the SIX draft preliminary reports (Article 23 (f) of the Rules of Procedure) January 1 to 31, 2005: period allotted for SIX States Party (Canada, the United States, Jamaica, Guatemala, Guyana, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) to update their responses to the questionnaire and for civil society organizations to present documents in relation to those SIX States, pursuant to Article 33 (b) of the Rules of Procedure.[3] |
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February 1 to 14, 2005:
period allotted for the translation of the revised versions of
the SIX draft preliminary reports and for the Secretariat to
transmit them to the Committee’s lead experts (Article 23 (f) of the
Rules of Procedure). February 15 to March 6, 2005: period allotted for Committee members to consider the draft preliminary reports (Article 23 (f) of the Rules of Procedure). March 3 and 4, 2005: meetings of the SIX preliminary review subgroups (Article 24 of the Rules of Procedure).[4] March 7 to 12, 2005: Seventh Plenary Meeting of the Committee.[5] |
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March 21 to May 13, 2005: period allotted for the Secretariat to prepare the SIX draft preliminary reports (Article 23 (a) and (b) of the Rules of Procedure).
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May 14 to June 13, 2005: period allotted for the translation of the SIX draft preliminary reports and for the Secretariat to send them to the members of the preliminary review subgroups (Article 23 (a) and (b) of the Rules of Procedure). |
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June 14 to July 5, 2005: period allotted for members of the preliminary review subgroups to transmit any comments they may have on the draft reports to the Secretariat and for the Secretariat to forward those comments to the States Party under review (Article 23 (c) and (d) of the Rules of Procedure).[6] |
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July 6 to 15, 2005:
period allotted for the
translation of the comments from the members of the
preliminary review subgroups and transmittal to the States under review
of the draft preliminary reports prepared by the Secretariat and of the
subgroups’ comments. July 16 to August 8, 2005: period allotted for the States Party under review to respond to the comments from the subgroup and the Secretariat (Article 23 (e) of the Rules of Procedure).[7] July 20 to August 20, 2005: period allotted for FOUR States Party (Grenada, Suriname, Brazil; and Belize) to update their responses to the questionnaire and for civil society organizations to present documents in relation to those FOUR States, pursuant to Article 33 (b) of the Rules of Procedure.[8] August 9 to 26, 2005: period allotted for the Secretariat to prepare the revised versions of the SIX draft preliminary reports (Article 23 (f) of the Rules of Procedure). |
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