A/HRC/9/28 page 26 Acknowledging with appreciation the adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance by the General Assembly on 20 December 2006, and noting that, once it enters into force, it will establish an additional treaty body, Noting the provisions in the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which establish a two-term limit for members of the relevant treaty bodies, 1. Acknowledges the important contribution of the human rights treaty bodies in furthering the effective implementation of the human rights treaties and the interpretation of the rights contained therein; 2. Takes note with appreciation of: (a) The report of the Secretary-General on the effective implementation of international instruments on human rights (A/HRC/4/81); (b) The reports of the Secretary-General containing the reports of the chairpersons of the human rights treaty bodies on their sixteenth to nineteenth meetings (A/59/254, A/60/278, A/61/385 and A/62/224), held in the period 2004-2007, and the reports of the inter-committee meetings of human rights treaty bodies annexed thereto; 3. Welcomes the measures taken by the human rights treaty bodies to date to improve their functioning, and encourages continuing efforts aimed at improving the effectiveness of the treaty body system with a view to a more coordinated approach to its activities and standardized reporting, including by streamlining, rationalizing, rendering more transparent and otherwise improving working methods and reporting procedures, inter alia by: (a) Reducing the duplication of reporting required under the different instruments as well as the reporting burden on States parties, including through the use of the common-core document, without impairing the quality of reporting, and focused periodic reports based on the concluding observations; (b) Harmonizing the general guidelines regarding the form and content of reports across all treaty bodies, including through the adoption by each treaty body of revised reporting guidelines for treaty-specific documents; (c) Providing preliminary lists of issues to States in advance of consideration of reports by treaty bodies; (d) Coordinating the schedule for the consideration of reports; (e) Limiting the length of States parties’ reports; (f) Establishing improved and harmonized methods of work for the treaty bodies and harmonizing rules of procedure;