summaries. Starting with the Annual Report of the Human Rights Committee, in 1979 and up to the 1990 report incorporating the thirty-ninth session, all of the Committee's views (103), a selection of 44 of its decisions declaring communications inadmissible, three decisions in reversal of admissibility and decisions to discontinue the consideration have been published in full.1 10. At its fifteenth session, the Committee decided to proceed with the periodical publication of a selection of its decisions under the Optional Protocol, including certain important decisions declaring communications admissible and other decisions of an interlocutory nature. Volume 1 of this series, covering decisions taken from the second to the sixteenth session inclusive, was published in 1985 in English.2 Volume 2 covers decisions __________ 1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/34/40); Thirty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/35/40); Thirty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/36/40); Thirty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/37/40); Thirty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/38/40); Thirty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/39/40); Fortieth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/40/40); Forty-first Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/41/40); Forty-second Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/42/40); Forty-third Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/43/40); Forty-forth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/44/40); Forty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/45/40). 2 Human Rights Committee, Selected Decisions under the Optional Protocol (2 - 16 Sessions, New York, 1985, United Nations Publications, Sales No. E.84.XIV.2), hereinafter referred to as Selected Decisions...Vol. 1. French and Spanish versions were published in June 1988. For an introduction to the Committe's Jurisprudence from the second to the twenty-eighth Sessions, see A. de Zayas, J. Moller, T. Opsahl, "Application of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights under the Optional Protocol by the Human Rights Committee", German Year Book of International Law, Volume 28, 1985, pp.9-64. Reproduced by the United Nations Centre for Human Rights as re-print No. 1, 1989. taken from the seventeenth to the thirty-second session under Article 5 (4) of the Optional Protocol, all decisions declaring communications admissible, two interim decisions requesting additional information from the author and State party and two decisions under rule 86 of the Committee's provisional rules of procedure, requesting interim measures of protection.3 11. With regard to the publication of decisions relating to communications declared inadmissible or on which action has been discontinued, the names of the author(s) and of the alleged victim(s) are replaced by letters or initials. With respect to decisions of an interlocutory kind, including decisions declaring a communication admissible, the names of the author(s), the alleged victim(s) and the State party concerned may also be deleted. 12. Communications under the Optional Protocol are numbered consecutively, indicating the year of registration (e.g. No. 1/1976, No. 288/1988). 13. Since the publication of Volume 2, the case load of the Committee under the Optional Protocol has increased. As an indication, it may be noted that at the opening of its thirty-ninth session, 140 cases were pending. In view of this development, the Committee decided at its thirty -fifth session in 1989 to designate, under rule 91 of its rules of procedure, one of its members as Special Rapporteur on New Communications in order to process them between sessions of the Committee. 14. The Committee, in addition, decided to adopt a new format of decisions on admissibility and final views in order to enhance clarity and prevent overlapping. At its thirty-seventh session, the Committee adopted the new format although this structure is still evolving and adapting itself to new cases. 9