CAT/OP/MEX/1/Add.2 • It establishes a standard declaration form and the obligation of every authority to receive a victim’s statement, enabling victims to present their statement to any federal, state or municipal authority, including embassies, consulates, health or education institutions, the National Scheme for the Comprehensive Development of the Family, municipal legal officers and also shelters or refuges; • It creates the National Victim Support System as the highest body in this sphere, whose functions will be to formulate, regulate and oversee guidelines, plans, programmes, projects, schemes and other public policies implemented for the purposes of providing protection, aid, assistance, support and comprehensive redress and guaranteeing the right of access to justice and the truth. The System will be composed of representatives of all public agencies and institutions in the three levels of government. It will have an executive commission, composed of nine commissioners proposed by the federal executive and elected by the Senate, to encourage the representation and participation of victims and civil society within the System; • It provides for the setting up of the national registry of victims, which will log victims’ registrations and records. Their entry in the registry will be based on a report, complaint or allegation, which may be made by the actual victim, the authority, a governmental human rights agency or a third party having knowledge of the facts; • It provides for the establishment of an aid, assistance and comprehensive redress fund administered by a public trust. The purpose of the fund will be to compensate victims and its resources will be provided by, inter alia, federal expenditure budget allocations; property confiscated in criminal proceedings; sureties and guarantees; fines and pecuniary penalties; donations and contributions by third parties; proceeds from public auctions; and amounts recovered by the State in civil proceedings; • It establishes various measures for the provision of comprehensive victim support: • Immediate humanitarian aid measures, including action in the areas of health care, accommodation, food, transport and welfare; • Assistance and support measures aimed at restoring to victims the full exercise of their rights through action in the areas of education, economic provision and social development and also assistance and support in the pursuit and administration of justice; • Comprehensive redress measures, including restoration of rights, reinstatement, compensation, satisfaction, collective reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence. These aspects have been recognized in the case law of the inter-American human rights system; • With respect to the responsibilities of public servants, it establishes, inter alia, their obligation to ensure that international human rights norms and instruments are observed and applied; • It authorizes the public prosecution service to apply for the adoption of preventive or protective measures required for the protection of victims, their relatives and/or property whenever necessary. It also authorizes the judiciary to order precautionary measures for the safeguarding of victims and their legal rights; • It reaffirms the constitutional powers of the National Human Rights Commission, as established in article 102, to investigate human rights violations and refer allegations of such violations to the public prosecution service. It also establishes its power to make recommendations concerning victim redress. 28 GE.13-41196 (EXT)