A/HRC/10/14 page 16 company employees, but it also recognizes that such reforms do not go far enough. States need to employ sufficient numbers of contract managers who are trained in international human rights and humanitarian law and ensure that there are sufficient monitors embedded with private military and security companies in the field. Oversight 65. As set out in its report to the General Assembly, the Working Group believes that parliamentary oversight of private military and security companies could be established at the level of the State and involve regular parliamentary hearings, inquiries, investigations, as well as creating a specific committee, subcommittee or commission within the parliamentary structures of countries exporting security and military services aimed at scrutinizing the delivery of licences and monitoring and investigating actual activities of these companies. 66. The Working Group also believes that the international community should move away from perceiving private military and security companies as part of regular exports under commercial regulations and towards perceiving them as a highly specific field of exports and services, requiring supervision and constant oversight by national Governments, civil society and the international community led by the United Nations. Both Governments and the United Nations system must take greater responsibility for what, where and how private military and security companies are doing worldwide, and where and how they operate. 67. The Working Group also considers that an international oversight mechanism could be established to receive complaints from all interested private military and security company industry stakeholders regarding private military and security services and to conduct preliminary investigations to help determine which complaints deserve further attention and which authorities would be best suited to address them. While the Working Group currently carries out some of these tasks, it has neither the resources nor the mandate to provide this oversight mechanism as effectively as it ought to be done. III. CONCLUSIONS 68. The Working Group expresses deep concern about the lack of regulation at the national and international level of the activities of private military and security companies which recruit and train thousands of citizens from all over the world, from developed and developing countries, to perform tasks in Afghanistan, Iraq or in other zones of armed conflict, and in post-conflict and low intensity conflict areas. 69. As the Working Group’s interaction with Governments in the course of country visits shows, most Governments do not possess systematized information on which military and security companies are registered in their territory, and which companies originating from their country are registered abroad. 70. In conformity with the mandates of the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council to elaborate guidelines and principles for the regulation of private military and security companies, and ensuring the prevention of any violation by them of human rights norms, the Working Group, after consultation with many national Governments in the course of regional