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 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008
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July 31 to August 30, 2004: period allotted for SIX States Party (Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Honduras, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, and The Bahamas) 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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August 31 to October 15, 2004: 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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October 16 to November 15, 2004: 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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November 16 to 30, 2004: 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). |
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December 1 to 9, 2004: 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. 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). |
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S2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008
[1] This schedule was approved by the Committee of Experts at the session held on July 30, 2004, within the framework of its Sixth Meeting, held at OAS Headquarters in Washington D.C.
[2] In this schedule, taking into account that the last group would only be composed of four States (Grenada; Suriname; Brazil; and Belize), the deadlines for the preparation of documents by the Secretariat and the respective translations have been proportionately reduced.
[3] The foregoing time frame (one month starting from the date of the previous Committee meeting) is consistent with the decision taken by the Committee at its February 13, 2003 session, in the context of its third regular meeting.