A/HRC/19/28 19. In addition, during 2011, OHCHR organized a series of one-day consultations for treaty body members, near Geneva, on a Saturday during their respective sessions. These consultations were aimed at providing committee experts a space for creative thinking on how to strengthen and streamline their methods of work and to reflect on the future of the treaty body system. They also allowed committee members to discuss, in advance, the agenda items of the twelfth Inter-Committee Meeting. When possible the consultations brought together two committees whose sessions overlapped. IV. Conclusion 20. No matter what suggestions for enhanced efficiency will derive from the treaty body strengthening process, they will not detract from the treaty bodies’ critical need for enhanced resources. At present, only one third of States parties comply in a timely manner with their reporting obligations, and even at this low level of compliance, treaty bodies are faced with serious structural difficulties to address the current workload. In 2011, an average of 250 reports were pending consideration by the treaty bodies. 21. To provide the treaty bodies with sufficient meeting time to undertake the work of considering State party reports efficiently and effectively, I put forward two proposals in my report to the General Assembly (A/66/344) as follows: (a) an interim biennial calendar reflecting temporary increases in meeting time, sufficient to enable the treaty bodies to eliminate the backlog of reports actually pending examination; and (b) a permanent biennial fixed calendar, which allocates meeting time according to the number of States parties and the number of reports due. The two options are mutually compatible. 22. The growth of the treaty body system has never been reflected through commensurate resources for each treaty body. Reviews of staffing and financial needs only take place in an ad hoc manner, usually on the adoption of a decision to request additional meeting time or when a treaty passes a milestone for expansion. Apart from these triggering events (for which the estimated requirements are rarely fully approved), no comprehensive review of the workload and resourcing of the treaty bodies has been conducted. This has led me to call on the General Assembly to undertake a comprehensive review of the resources of the treaty body system as a whole, taking into account both its current needs (based on the level of actual compliance of States parties with their reporting obligations) and its projected needs (based on strict compliance of States parties with the reporting obligations under each treaty). 7