A/HRC/10/2 A/HRC/AC/2008/1/2 page 20 Will consider this matter only if the Human Rights Council addresses a request regarding this matter to the Advisory Committee. 16th meeting 15 August 2008 1/13. Sub-Commission studies 1. The President of the Human Rights Council, at the inauguration of the first session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, stated that the Sub-Commission had left behind a substantial body of studies of varying status: some were considered finished by the experts of the Sub-Commission, while others were considered to be “work in progress” at the time that body ceased to exist in 2006. He added that all of these studies had been incorporated in the final report of the Sub-Commission transmitted to the Council in 2006. The Council did not address the matter in the context of the adoption of the resolution 5/1 and therefore, the status of those studies or papers which were listed therein but not acted upon by the Council remained unclear. The President of the Council concluded that the suggestions of the Advisory Committee could be of great value in determining how the legacy of its predecessor body, the Sub-Commission, should be addressed by the Council. 2. On the same occasion, the Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights stated to the Committee members that it was now in their hands, as members of this new human rights body, to propose to the Council any other pending studies and mandates of the Sub-Commission that should be concluded or completed in the course of the Committee’s future work. 3. In the light of the above statements, and bearing in mind paragraph 77 of the annex to Council resolution 5/1, the Advisory Committee suggests that the Council examine and eventually take the decisions it may consider fit for a possible follow-up to all studies commissioned by the Sub-Commission now pending a decision from the Council (see annex), in connection with, inter alia, the following studies: (a) Discrimination in the criminal justice system; (b) Corruption and its impact on the full enjoyment of human rights; (c) Discrimination based on work and descent; (d) The role of States in the guarantee of human rights with reference to the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises. 4. The Advisory Committee’s membership includes experts with recognized knowledge on matters dealt with in the studies included in the annex to the present text. 16th meeting 15 August 2008