3. Election of the officers of the Committee. 4. Adoption of the agenda. 5. Organizational and other matters. 6. Submission of reports by States parties under article 19 of the Convention. 7. Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 19 of the Convention. 8. Consideration of information under article 20 of the Convention. 9. Consideration of communications under article 22 of the Convention. 10. Annual report of the Committee on its activities. G. Pre-sessional working group 10. During the period under review, the working group was composed of Mr. El Masry, Mr. Mariño, Mr. Yakovlev and Mr. Yu. The group met from 3 to 7 November 2003, prior to the thirty-first session, and from 26 to 30 April 2004, prior to the thirty-second session. Its agenda was devoted to the consideration of communications under article 22 of the Convention and list of issues to be transmitted to States parties whose periodic reports would be examined at the two sessions. The group reviewed the information brought to its attention and made recommendations to the Committee. 11. At its thirty-second session the Committee decided that, in the future, the lists of issues would be adopted by the Committee on the basis of a draft submitted by the respective country rapporteurs and that the pre-sessional working group would deal exclusively with communications under article 22. H. Lists of issues 12. The working group which met prior to the thirty-first and thirty-second sessions forwarded to the Committee draft lists of issues to be sent to States whose periodic reports would be considered at the thirty-second and thirty-third sessions, namely, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Monaco and New Zealand (thirty-second session), and Argentina, Greece and Canada (thirty-third session).1 The Committee approved such lists which were subsequently transmitted to the respective States. At the thirty-second session the Committee also decided to transmit a list of issues to Togo, scheduled to be considered at the thirty-third session, in November 2004, in the absence of a report. The initial report of Togo was overdue since 1988. Following its decision, at the thirty-second session, to schedule the fourth periodic report of the United Kingdom for examination at the thirty-third session, the Committee asked the country rapporteurs to prepare a list of issues after the session and transmit it to the State party. 9

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