39 consistency of all adopted concluding observations and treaty body jurisprudence. ✔✔ Country rapporteur – country rapporteurs are responsible for reviewing the State party report and any other material pertaining to the review of that State, including information from civil society, NHRIs and United Nations entities. The country rapporteur presents a list of issues to the treaty body for adoption (see fig. I). Subsequently, the country rapporteur must prepare for the dialogue, including by reviewing any responses from the State party to the list of issues as well as any additional information that the committee receives related to the situation in that State. The country rapporteur leads the dialogue on behalf of the treaty body. In some committees, he or she makes a presentation directly after the introductory remarks by the head of delegation of the State party presenting its report and also makes concluding remarks at the end of the dialogue. ✔✔ Member of a country task force – some treaty bodies support the country rapporteur via a country task force. The task force, normally comprising between two and four additional members, assists the country rapporteur in all of the functions outlined above, especially in the preparation of the list of issues and in the dialogue with the delegation of the State party. ✔✔ Rapporteur on new communications/interim measures – new individual communications arrive and are registered throughout the year. The relevant treaty bodies appoint a member to serve as special rapporteur for new communications and interim measures. The rapporteur liaises with the secretariat on an ongoing basis in fulfilling this function. On occasion, the author of the communication seeks interim measures to prevent irreparable harm being done. Such requests are considered as a matter of urgency— including in between sessions—by the rapporteur, who, on the authority of the treaty body, may then issue requests to State parties for interim measures. ✔✔ Individual communications case rapporteur – once the file of an individual communication is ready for consideration, the treaty body assigns the case to a member known as the case rapporteur. Assisted by the secretariat, the case rapporteur reviews all the submissions from the State party and the author, and prepares a first draft of findings (such as on admissibility and the merits of the communication) for the treaty body’s review. Normally, a working group of the treaty body reviews the first draft before its review at the plenary meeting of the treaty body.

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