(a) Concluded by adoption of Views under article 5(4) of the Optional Protocol 146 (b) Declared inadmissible 160 (c) Discontinued or withdrawn 85 (d) Declared admissible but not yet concluded 40 Pending at pre-admissibility stage 93 (e) 10. At its fifteenth session, the Committee decided to proceed with a separate project, 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.b Volume 2 covers decisions taken under article 5(4) of the Optional Protocol from the seventeenth to the thirty-second session and includes 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 rules of procedure, requesting interim measures of protection.c 8. In its first sixteen years, the Committee received many more than the 524 registered communications mentioned above. The Secretariat regularly receives inquiries from individuals who intend to submit a communication to the Committee. Such inquiries are not immediately registered as cases. In fact, the number of authors who eventually submit cases for consideration by the Committee under the Optional Protocol is relatively small, partly because the authors discover that their cases do not satisfy certain basic criteria of admissibility, such as the required exhaustion of domestic remedies, and partly because they realize that a reservation or a declaration by the State party concerned may operate to preclude the Committee’s competence to consider the case. These observations notwithstanding, the number of communications placed before the Committee is increasing steadily, and the Committee’s work is becoming better known to lawyers, researchers and the general public. The purpose of the Selected Decisions series is to contribute to the dissemination of its work. Thirty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/39/40); Fortieth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/40/40); Fortyfirst Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/41/40); Fortysecond Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/42/40); Fortythird Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/43/40); Fortyfourth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/44/40); Fortyfifth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/45/40); Fortysixth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/46/40); Fortyseventh Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/47/40); Fortyeighth Session, Supplement No. 40 (A/48/40). b Human Rights Committee, Selected Decisions under the Optional Protocol (Second to sixteenth sessions), New York, 1985 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.84.XIV.2), hereinafter referred to as Selected Decisions, vol.1. French and Spanish versions were published in June 1988 (CCPR/C/OP/1). For an introduction to the Committee’s jurisprudence from the second to the twenty-eighth sessions, see A. de Zayas, J. Möller, T. Opsahl, “Application of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights under the Optional Protocol by the Human Rights Committee” in German Yearbook of International Law, vol. 28, 1985, pp. 9-64. Reproduced by the United Nations Centre for Human Rights as Reprint No.1, 1989. For a more recent discussion, see A. de Zayas, “The examination of Individual Complaints by the United Nations Human Rights Committee under the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights” in International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms, Essays in Honour of Jakob Th. Möller, Martinus Nijhoff, 2001, pp. 67-121; see also A. de Zayas and J. Möller, The Case Law of the United Nations Human Rights Committee 1977-2002, A Handbook, Kluwer (forthcoming). c International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Selected Decisions under the Optional Protocol (Seventeenth to thirty-second sessions), New York, 1990. French and Spanish versions were published in 1991. 9. The first step towards wider dissemination of the Committee’s work was the decision taken during the seventh session to publish its Views: publication was desirable in the interests of the most effective exercise of the Committee’s functions under the Protocol, and publication in full was preferable to the publication of brief summaries. From the Annual Report of the Human Rights Committee in 1979 up to the 1993 report incorporating the fortysixth session, all the Committee’s Views (146) and a selection of its decisions declaring communications inadmissible, decisions in reversal of admissibility and decisions to discontinue consideration were published in full.a a See Official Records of the General Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 40 Thirty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 40 Thirty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 40 Thirty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 40 Thirty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 40 Assembly, (A/34/40); (A/35/40); (A/36/40); (A/37/40); (A/38/40); 2