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M.
Reporting guidelines
20.
At its forty-fifth and forty-sixth sessions, the Committee continued to discuss the
revision of its treaty-specific reporting guidelines, in the light of the harmonized guidelines
on reporting under the international human rights treaties, including guidelines on a
common core document (as contained in HRI/GEN/2/Rev.6). However, in the light of its
continued evaluation of its optional reporting procedure, the Committee discussed the
relevance of also adopting guidelines for reports submitted under this procedure and/or
general common guidelines.
N.
General Assembly resolution 65/204
21.
At its forty-fifth session, the Committee welcomed General Assembly resolution
65/204 of 21 December 2010, in which the Assembly authorized the Committee to meet for
an additional week per session as a temporary measure, with effect from May 2011 until the
end of November 2012, further to its request to the General Assembly for appropriate
financial support to this effect.
22.
The Committee also noted the request to the Secretary-General to submit to the
General Assembly at its sixty-sixth session concrete proposals on the human rights treaty
bodies, building on the work of the Secretary-General pursuant to Human Rights Council
resolution 9/8 of 24 September 2008 and of the treaty bodies in this regard, to improve their
effectiveness and to identify efficiencies in their working methods and costs in order to
better manage their workloads and programmes of work, bearing in mind budgetary
constraints and taking account of the varying burdens on each treaty body.
23.
At its forty-sixth session, the Committee continued to discuss measures to improve
the effectiveness of its working methods and costs in order better to manage its workloads
and programmes of work. Along these lines, it decided, inter alia, that it will continue its
evaluation of the optional reporting procedure (see chap. II, sect. C).
O.
Examination of reports
24.
In the light of General Assembly resolution 65/204 authorizing it to meet for an
additional week per session as a temporary measure, at its forty-fifth session, the
Committee decided to increase the number of States parties’ reports examined from six to
eight for its May session and from six to nine for its November session, maintaining a
dialogue with representatives of States parties of five hours per report.
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