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Rule 29
Interpretation from other languages
Any speaker addressing the Committee and using a language other than one of the
working languages shall normally provide for interpretation into one of the working
languages. Interpretation into the other working languages by interpreters of the Secretariat
may be based on the interpretation given in the first working language.
Rule 30
Languages of formal decisions and official documents
All formal decisions and official documents of the Committee shall be issued in the
official languages.
VII. Public and private meetings
Rule 31
Public and private meetings
The meetings of the Committee and its subsidiary bodies shall be held in public,
unless the Committee decides otherwise or it appears from the relevant provisions of the
Convention that the meeting should be held in private.
Rule 32
Issue of communiqués concerning private meetings
At the close of each private meeting, the Committee or its subsidiary body may issue
a communiqué, through the Secretary-General, for the use of the information media and the
general public regarding the activities of the Committee at its closed meetings.
VIII.
Records
Rule 33
Correction of summary records
Summary records of the public and private meetings of the Committee and its
subsidiary bodies shall be prepared by the Secretariat. They shall be distributed as soon as
possible to the members of the Committee and to any others participating in the meetings.
All such participants may, within three working days of the receipt of the records of the
meetings, submit corrections to the Secretariat in the languages in which the records have
been issued. Corrections to the records of the meetings shall be consolidated in a single
corrigendum to be issued after the end of the session concerned. Any disagreement
concerning such corrections shall be decided by the Chairperson of the Committee or the
Chairperson of the subsidiary body to which the record relates or, in the case of continued
disagreement, by decision of the Committee or of the subsidiary body.
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