A/HRC/5/21 page 61 14. Provisions for travel and DSA on a maintenance basis for the former Sub-Commission and its working groups have been requested under the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009. 15. Requirements for conference servicing of two sessions of the Advisory Committee of five days duration each required under Sections 2, General Assembly and Economic and Social Council affairs and conference management and 28E, Administration, Geneva, will be covered within the resources approved for the former Sub-Commission (three weeks per year). The resulting one-week saving in conference servicing requirements vis-à-vis the existing provisions for the Sub-Commission will be used to offset requirements for an additional week of meetings of the Working Group on Situations under the Complaint Procedure (see paragraph 18 below). 16. Resource requirements for travel, DSA and conference services relating to the working groups of the former Sub-Commission will be determined in connection with the Council’s review of their status at its sixth session. 17. The complaint procedure will replace the former 1503 procedure. The Council decides that: (a) Two distinct Working Groups shall be established with the mandate to examine the communications and to bring to the attention of the Human Rights Council consistent patterns of gross and reliably attested violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms; (b) The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee shall appoint five of its members, one from each Regional Group, with due consideration to gender balance, to constitute the Working Group on Communications; (c) Each Regional Group shall appoint a representative of a member State of the Council, with due consideration to gender balance, to serve on the Working Group on Situations; (d) session. Both Working Groups shall meet at least twice a year for five working days each 18. In order to implement the above-mentioned proposals, conference servicing resources starting in the biennium 2008-2009 will be required for two five-day sessions per year for both the Working Group on Communications and the Working Group on Situations. 19. Provisions for two weeks of meetings for the Working Group on Communications and one week for the Working Group on Situations under the former Commission and Sub-Commission mandates have been included in the 2006-2007 budget and were also requested under the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009. The additional week of meetings for the Working Group on Situations will be offset against savings from the reduction of meetings of the former Sub-Commission by one week. Thus, no additional resources will be required.

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