PART I
Implementation of Commitments
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not be a national or resident of, or a person appointed to the resource list by any of the States
concerned, will be appointed from the resource list by the ranking official of the CSCE body
designated by the Council. The provisions of the second part of paragraph 4 and the whole of
paragraph 6 also apply to a mission of rapporteurs.
(11) The CSCE rapporteur(s) will establish the facts, report on them and may give advice on
possible solutions to the question raised. The report of the rapporteur(s), containing observations of facts, proposals or advice, will be submitted to the participating State or States concerned and, unless all the States concerned agree otherwise, to the CSCE Institution no later
than two weeks after the last rapporteur has been appointed. The requested State will submit
any observations on the report to the CSCE Institution, unless all the States concerned agree
otherwise, no later than two weeks after the submission of the report.
The CSCE Institution will transmit the report, as well as any observations by the requested
State or any other participating State, to all participating States without delay. The report will
be placed on the agenda of the next regular meeting of the Committee of Senior Officials or of
the Permanent Committee of the CSCE, which may decide on any possible follow-up action.
The report will remain confidential until after that meeting of the Committee. Before the circulation of the report no other rapporteur may be appointed for the same issue.
(12) If a participating State considers that a particularly serious threat to the fulfilment of the
provisions of the CSCE human dimension has arisen in another participating State, it may,
with the support of at least nine other participating States, engage the procedure set forth in
paragraph 10. The provisions of paragraph 11 will apply.
(13) Upon the request of any participating State the Committee of Senior Officials or the
Permanent Committee of the CSCE may decide to establish a mission of experts or of CSCE
rapporteurs. In such case the Committee will also determine whether to apply the appropriate
provisions of the preceding paragraphs.
(14) The participating State or States that have requested the establishment of a mission of experts or rapporteurs will cover the expenses of that mission. In case of the appointment of
experts or rapporteurs pursuant to a decision of the Committee of Senior Officials or of the
Permanent Committee of the CSCE, the expenses will be covered by the participating States
in accordance with the usual scale of distribution of expenses. These procedures will be reviewed by the Helsinki Follow-up Meeting of the CSCE.
(15) Nothing in the foregoing will in any way affect the right of participating States to raise
within the CSCE process any issue relating to the implementation of any CSCE commitment,
including any commitment relating to the human dimension of the CSCE.
(16) In considering whether to invoke the procedures in paragraphs 9 and 10 or 12 regarding
the case of an individual, participating States should pay due regard to whether that individual’s case is already sub judice in an international judicial procedure.
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