A/HRC/2/2 A/HRC/Sub.1/58/36 page 77 all those listed in the annex to decision 1/102 should remain in existence, with their present functions and responsibilities, until the review process soon to be undertaken by the Council is completed. 5. The Council is clearly envisaged as being the pinnacle of an entire system of promotion and protection of human rights. That system must work as a coherent and integrated whole. Fragmentation, duplication and diffusion of effort must be avoided. 2. Council decision 1/102 of 30 June 2006 6. The Council, in paragraph 3 (b) (i) and (ii) of its decision 1/102, has requested the Sub-Commission to give due priority during its current session to preparing two documents to be submitted to the Council in 2006: (a) a paper giving its own vision and recommendations for future expert advice to the Council; and (b) a list describing the status of ongoing studies and an overall review of its activities. In paragraph 4 of the decision, the Council indicated that, in preparing the first of those two documents, the Sub-Commission should include the contributions that its Social Forum and working groups may deem fit to submit at the end of their 2006 sessions. 3. Annex to Sub-Commission decision 2005/114 of 11 August 2005 7. The Sub-Commission reaffirms the conclusions contained in the annex to its decision 2005/114, which was the subject of collegial discussion and negotiation and which was adopted by consensus. 4. Scope and structure of this paper 8. This document contains the Sub-Commission’s vision and recommendations on the advisability of improving and strengthening the network of expert advice mechanisms that was established by the Economic and Social Council during the period 1946-2006, as part of an action-oriented system of United Nations bodies dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights under the operational primary authority of the Commission, and which included the existing three subsystems: the special procedures, the Sub-Commission and its own subsystem of working groups (both sessional and intersessional) as well as the Social Forum, and the one comprising the various functional mechanisms of the confidential procedure established by Economic and Social Council resolution 1503 (XLVIII) of 1970 (the 1503 procedure). 9. In accordance with decision 1/102, this paper first sets out the Sub-Commission’s general vision on any expert advice mechanism resulting from the overall review process to be undertaken by the Council. Then, in the light of the General Assembly resolution establishing the Council, it identifies the functions to be carried out by any standing human rights expert advisory body emerging from the overall review process to be undertaken by the Council, as well as the issues about which the Council will need advice, so as to facilitate the Council’s task of determining, in due course, which existing (or future) mechanism is most suitable for providing the advice required. It will be necessary for the Council to consider the operation of all mandates and other mechanisms for which it now has responsibility, in order to ensure the