A/HRC/2/2 A/HRC/Sub.1/58/36 page 78 coherence of the system as a whole and whether all the needs for advice are met. The role of a consultative body made up of independent experts cannot be determined without understanding the role of other parts of the United Nations human rights system. 10. Next, the paper will deal with the characteristics of any future expert advice mechanism, which will be referred to throughout this annex as the Human Rights Consultative Commission (HRCC). There is then a section on the recommendations from the intersessional working groups and the Social Forum, as requested by the Council in paragraph 4 of the decision. Finally, the recommendations of the Sub-Commission to the Council, resulting from the considerations already examined, will be set out in summary form. 11. The vision and recommendations are based on the arrangements for the transitional period established by the Council in decision 1/102, in particular paragraphs 1 and 3, in the light of the provisions of Assembly resolution 60/251. They will refer principally, of course, to how the existing Sub-Commission, as a collegial body, envisages the transition from a Commission-led network of expert advice mechanisms under the Economic and Social Council to one, first, under the direct leadership of the Council and, ultimately, under the final authority of the General Assembly. 12. Nonetheless, because of the long-standing, much-needed systemic nature of United Nations action in the field of human rights, explicitly recognized by the General Assembly in paragraph 6 of resolution 60/251, and in order to secure the “fresh approach” that is so often mentioned as essential when considering the establishment of the new Council, our recommendations will necessarily have to touch upon the interaction that this network of mechanisms of expert advice must secure in its relations with the other two components of the present system, i.e. the subsystem of special procedures and the functional mechanisms of the 1503 procedure. 13. In order to avoid confusion, it has also been thought helpful to define the terms and acronyms used in the paper.5 5 Commission: the former United Nations Commission on Human Rights. UPR: the universal periodic review referred to in paragraph 5 (e) of Assembly resolution 60/251. Sub-Commission: the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. This term will be used to describe the current activities of the body and the views of the current members of the body. HRCC (for Human Rights Consultative Committee) will be used to signify any future standing collegial expert advice body (including a “reconstructed Sub-Commission”), that may emerge from the overall review of all existing expert advice mechanisms referred to in paragraph 6 of Assembly resolution 60/251. UPR expert body: denotes those areas in which UPR will require expert advice, without taking a position on whether that would be provided by a separate, specialized expert body or by the whole or part of HRCC itself. Special procedures: all mechanisms under that name listed in the annex to Council decision 1/102 and which used to report to the Commission, whether called a special rapporteur, a special representative of the Secretary-General or a working group, and whatever the manner of their appointment/selection. Where a particular type of special