6. Consideration of infonmation received under article 20 of the Convention. 7. Consideration of communications under article 22 of the Convention. 8. Future meetings of the Committee. 9. Action by the General Aasembly at its forty-fifth .8.sionc 10. (a) Annual report submitted by the Committee under article 24 of the Convention, (b) Effective implementation of intornational instruments on human rights, including reporting obligations under international instruments on human rights. Annual report of the Committee on its activities. r. Working methgds Qf the Committee 11. The Committee resumed discussiQn Qn its working methQds relating to its functions under article 19 of the ConventiQn at its 67th, 10th and 71st meetings Qn 19 and 21 NQvember 1990. 1/ 12. The Committee agreed that the appointment of a country rapporteur and an alternate country rapporteur for the consideration Qf each report submitted by a State party, Which ha~ been decided at its fQurth session, had enabled it to formulate better organized cQnclusiQns and that this arrangement should be CQntinued in the future. In order to assist cQuntry rappQrteurs and their alternates in carrying out their task systematically, infQnmal guidelines were prepared by Ms. Christine Chanet and Mr. Bent Sprensen on the basis of Mr. Sprensen's prQpQsal and circulated to the members of the Committee. It was stressed that the Committee's methods Qf work CQuld be changed, depending on the circunstances. 13. Members of the CQmmittee also felt that the question of when the Committee shOUld formulate its conclusiQns ne~ded furth.r clarification. The committee agreed that, if possible, its conclusiQns should be formulated immediately following the consideration of a State party's report. A brief suspension of the meeting should normally be sufficient for consultations before the country rapporteur formulated conclusions on behalf of the CQmmittee, it being un4erstoQd that the members CQuld speak again if they so wished. When further consideration, research or infonmal consultations were deemed necessa;y, the country rapporteur would request the Committee to formulate its conclusions during another meeting of the same session. -3-