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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.
Prague 1992 (Document on Further Development of CSCE Institutions and Structures:
III. Human Dimension)
14. The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights is designated as the CSCE
institution charged with the tasks in connection with expert and rapporteur missions
according to the Document of the Moscow Meeting of the Conference on the Human
Dimension of the CSCE.
Helsinki 1992 (Decisions: VI. The Human Dimension)
(5) Under the general guidance of the CSO (…) the ODIHR will, as the main institution
of the Human Dimension:
(5a) assist the monitoring of implementation of commitments in the Human Dimension by:
• serving as a venue for bilateral meetings under paragraph 2 and as a channel for information under paragraph 3 of the Human Dimension Mechanism as set out in the
Vienna Concluding Document;
(…)
(5b) act as a clearing-house for information on:
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