A/HRC/13/56 Portugal 518. The review of Portugal was held on 4 December 2009 in conformity with all the relevant provisions contained in Council resolution 5/1, and was based on the following documents: (a) The national report submitted by Portugal in accordance with the annex to Council resolution 5/1, paragraph 15 (a) (A/HRC/WG.6/6/PRT/1); (b) The compilation prepared by OHCHR in accordance with paragraph 15 (b) (A/HRC/WG.6/6/PRT/2); (c) The summary prepared by OHCHR in accordance with paragraph 15 (c) (A/HRC/WG.6/6/PRT/3). 519. At its 30th meeting, on 18 March 2010, the Council considered and adopted the outcome of the review on Portugal (see section C below). 520. The outcome of the review on Portugal comprises the report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (A/HRC/13/10), the views of Portugal concerning the recommendations and/or conclusions, and its voluntary commitments and replies presented before the adoption of the outcome by the plenary to questions or issues that were not sufficiently addressed during the interactive dialogue in the Working Group (see also A/HRC/13/10/Add.1). 1. Views expressed by the State under review on the recommendations and/or conclusions, as well as on its voluntary commitments and on the outcome 521. Portugal recalled that 71 recommendations had been accepted out of the 89 recommendations made during the review in the Working Group, many of which corresponded to areas that Portugal had already identified in the course of the preparation of the national report, as crucial areas of attention. A total of 21 recommendations corresponded to the recommendations that Portugal had already implemented or was in the process of implementing. There were 17 remaining recommendations, the consideration of which had been deferred. Portugal had expressed its position on each of them in an addendum to the national report. It was pleased to announce that it had accepted almost all of the recommendations, bringing the final number of accepted recommendations to 86 of 89. It would report regularly on the implementation of these recommendations. Portugal also recalled that it had already rejected the recommendation to sign and ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. 522. Portugal updated the Council on its voluntary commitment to establish a national human rights commission, which would be an inter-ministerial body with the competence to coordinate the implementation at the national level of all its international human rights obligations and voluntary commitments. It would ensure not only the follow-up to the universal periodic review exercise, but also the timely and adequate reporting to all international human rights bodies. It would also ensure the translation of all its international commitments into obligations at the national level, thus leading to national legislation and to the set-up of concrete policies and plans. The institutional set-up of the commission would be approved by the Council of Ministers on 18 March 2010. 523. Portugal noted that its rejection of the recommendation to sign and ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families did not imply any lack of importance of the rights of migrants. Indeed, all rights of migrants were already protected in its legal system through other international conventions to which Portugal was a party, and also European instruments and national law, which provided for extensive protection of all the rights envisaged in the 157