OSCE/ODIHR Opinion on the Draft Amendments to the Act on Establishment of the Slovak National Centre for Human Rights repeated in subsequent treaty body Concluding Observations. 49 This underscores the need for the draft law to make explicit provision that the appropriate level of funding will be provided to the Centre. 41. It is worth noting here that the 2018 proposed EU Commission recommendation on standards for equality bodies requires that “[t]he Member States should ensure that each equality body is provided with the human, technical and financial resources, premises and infrastructure necessary to perform its tasks and exercise its powers effectively. The resources allocated to equality bodies should take into account the competences and tasks allocated. Resources can only be considered adequate if they allow equality bodies to carry out each of their equality functions effectively, within reasonable time and within the deadlines established by national law”. 50 42. Of additional relevance is that the expanded mandate provided for in §1 of the Draft Amendments requires a corresponding increase in the budget. The SCA has repeatedly stated that when an NHRI is tasked with additional functions, a corresponding increase in funds is essential. For example, it has made this recommendation in relation to additional functions added to the NHRI’s mandate such as responsibility for children’s’ rights,51 gender equality,52 anti-discrimination,53 data protection,54 human trafficking,55 and undertaking a national human rights report56. This funding should be sufficient to cover the additional functions.57 ECRI has made a similar recommendation regarding non-discrimination bodies that expanded mandate must be accompanied by ‘appropriate Committee at its eighty-second session (11 February–1 March 2013), UN Doc. CERD/C/ SVK/CO/9-10, 17 April 2013, para 15. The Committee reiterated its previous recommendation in 2018, recommending ‘that the State party provide the Slovak National Centre for Human Rights with adequate human, financial and technical resources to enable it to discharge its mandate effectively and independently, both as a national human rights institution and an equality body’. CERD/C/SVK/CO/11-12 (12 January 2018); The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in its 2012 Concluding Observations stated that it ‘is also concerned by the insufficiency of the financial and human resources placed at the Centre’s disposal. The Committee recommends that the State party … endow it with the financial and human resources it needs in order to function in full conformity with the Paris Principles - Committee on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties in accordance with articles 16 and 17 of the Covenant: Concluding observations of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - Slovakia, UN Doc. E/C.12/SVK/CO/2, 8 June 2012, para 7; The Human Rights Committee in its 2011 Concluding Observations stated that it was concerned that the NHRI ‘has not been provided with adequate resources to carry out its functions. … The State party should also take concrete measures to ensure that the NCHR is provided with adequate financial and human resources in line with the Paris Principles.’ - Human Rights Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 40 of the Covenant: Concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee - Slovakia, UN Doc. CCPR/C/SVK/CO/3, 20 April 2011, para 5. This was reiterated by the Committee in its Concluding observations on the fourth report of Slovakia, CCPR/C/SVK/CO/4, 22 November 2016, para 9. 49 See above footnotes 30, 32. See also, Committee Against Torture Concluding observations on the third periodic report of Slovakia 8 September 2015, UN Doc. CAT/C/SVK/CO/3, para. 16. 50 Commission Recommendation on standards for Equality Bodies, C(2018) 3850 final, (22 June 2018), para 1.2.2(1). 51 SCA Report, Albania, October 2014 p. 19; SCA Report, Germany, November 2015 pp. 16-17. 52 SCA Report, Mongolia, October 2014 pp. 25-26. 53 SCA Report, Ukraine, October 2014 pp. 36-37; SCA Report, Montenegro, May 2016 p. 17. 54 SCA Report, Ukraine, October 2014 pp. 36-37. 55 SCA Report, Luxembourg, November 2015 pp. 27-28. 56 SCA Report, Germany, November 2015 pp. 16-17. 57 SCA Report, Costa Rica, November 2016 pp. 18-19. 14