A/HRC/10/55 page 4 (c) Thereafter, the recommendation will be forwarded to the members of the Committee Bureau for a decision. If a challenge has been received from the applicant, the challenge, together with all relevant material received in connection with both the application and the challenge, will also be forwarded to the members of the Bureau; (d) Any member of the Bureau who disagrees with the recommendation shall, within 20 days of its receipt, notify the Chairperson of the Subcommittee and the secretariat. The secretariat will promptly notify all Bureau members of the objection raised and will provide all necessary information to clarify that objection. If within 20 days of receipt of this information a majority of members of the Bureau notify the secretariat that they hold a similar objection, the recommendation shall be referred to the next Bureau meeting for a decision; (e) If a majority of members do not raise objection to the recommendation within 20 days of its receipt, the recommendation shall be deemed to be approved by the Bureau; (f) The decision of the Bureau on accreditation is final. 8. The rules of procedure for the Subcommittee on Accreditation remain in force and are incorporated as an annex of the statute of the International Coordinating Committee (art. 58). 9. The Subcommittee continued to develop new procedures during the reporting period. For its November 2008 session, the Subcommittee adopted the practice of sharing the summaries prepared by the secretariat with each national human rights institution before the consideration of its application, giving that each institution has one week to comment on the summary. All comments received, together with the summaries, were sent to the members of the Subcommittee. The summaries and the comments were posted on the National Human Rights Institutions Forum (www.nhri.net) following the adoption of the Subcommittee recommendations by the Committee Bureau. 10. Also at its November 2008 session, the Subcommittee increased its efforts to engage regional coordinating committees in the accreditation process. The Committees of all four regions were invited to participate in the session as observers, and the Subcommittee welcomed the attendance of a representative from the Asia-Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions at the November session. The Subcommittee encourages the participation of all regional coordinating committees in future sessions. IV. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS 11. Following the practice initiated at its meeting in October 2006, the Subcommittee continued to develop general observations in relation to accreditation. These general observations have been formulated on common or important interpretative issues and are intended to constitute guidelines for members on the application process for accreditation and on the implementation of the Paris Principles. As highlighted in the decision paper adopted by the Committee at its twentieth session, the general observations, as “interpretive tools” of the Paris Principles, may be used to: