A/HRC/6/19 page 6 to the Council (A/HRC/6/7), the group expressed its appreciation to the Government of the Sudan for its ongoing cooperation in providing information in a spirit of constructive dialogue. It concluded that it was too early to present a detailed evaluation of implementation in its interim report. The group wished to give the Government the maximum possible time to undertake initiatives responding to its recommendations and to report back on those measures and any impact they may have had. Moreover, the group intended to obtain as much detailed information as possible from all reliable sources to allow it to assess reports on the impact of the implementation on the ground in line with the indicators identified in the group’s first report. The group concluded that, while certain recommendations had been partially implemented, it was not in a position to report that a clear impact on the ground had been identified with regard to any recommendations. With regard to some, initial steps seemed to have been taken towards implementation, but in other cases, the information provided was insufficient to confirm whether there had been any implementation at all. 7. The present report is submitted pursuant to resolution OM/1/3. It contains the review by the group of experts of the efforts of the Government of the Sudan to implement the recommendations the group has compiled, on the basis of information that the group received from the Government in written and oral form and from other sources, including United Nations and African Union agencies, bodies and programmes with operational competence in Darfur. 8. Using the indicators it put forward in the annex to its first report to the Council, the group provides an assessment of the Government’s activities to implement recommendations over the short term and the impact reported in Darfur. The group also takes note of any progress the Government has made with regard to midterm recommendations. Accordingly, the group focuses on developments in Darfur between the adoption of Council resolution OM/1/3 on 20 June 2007 and mid-November 2007. In annex I to the present report, the group of experts presents a more detailed review of the current status of implementation of the recommendations compiled in its first report. Annex II contains a list of documents received from the Government of the Sudan since June 2007. II. METHODS OF WORK 9. In preparing the present report, the group of experts continued to follow the methodology used in its earlier work: (a) To cooperate and work in a transparent manner with the Government of the Sudan and other relevant partners in the international community; (b) To identify obstacles to the implementation of previous recommendations; (c) To differentiate short-term from medium-term recommendations with a view to assisting the Government of the Sudan to implement fully the recommendations identified in the annex to its first report and to keep the victims of past and ongoing violations of human rights and humanitarian law in central focus, as well as to reduce such violations in future. 10. In line with the indicators developed in its first report, and cognizant that the Council, in its resolution 4/8, does not request any fact-finding activities by the experts group, the present report focuses on the state of implementation on two levels. On the one hand, it assesses to what