A/HRC/4/43 page 5 9. It was agreed that the Coordination Committee for 2006/07 would consist of: Vitit Muntarbhorn (Chairperson of the thirteenth meeting), Gay McDougall (Rapporteur of the thirteenth meeting), Philip Alston (ex-officio member), Charlotte Abaka, Amada Benavides de Perez and Asma Jahangir. 10. The next annual meeting is scheduled to take place from 18 to 22 June 2007. 11. The participants adopted the present report on 23 June 2006. II. THE ACTIVITIES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE COORDINATION COMMITTEE 12. The outgoing chair of the Coordination Committee briefed participants on the activities of the Committee. He reported on an exchange held by members of the Committee with the High Commissioner the previous day, during which the role of special procedures in the context of the Human Rights Council and the universal periodic review (UPR) was addressed. 13. Concerning the Manual of the United Nations Human Rights Special Procedures, which was adopted by the annual meeting in 1999, the Coordination Committee had worked on an initial revision and updated the Manual to reflect the evolving practice of special procedures. The Manual is intended to be a living document to be updated regularly. It is meant to provide guidance to mandate-holders. It was decided that after a preliminary discussion at the present annual meeting, mandate-holders, in a spirit of transparency, would call for comments on the draft from Governments, civil society organizations, treaty bodies’ experts and all other stakeholders in a period of four months. The Committee would then go through the different comments to revise the Manual accordingly. It would also issue an explanatory memorandum on major approaches in the comments, as well as reactions to them. The new draft would be circulated a month ahead of the fourteenth meeting, which should adopt the new Manual. The new Manual would be made public for reasons of transparency. Some participants stressed that the circulation of the Manual would also serve educational purposes and would raise awareness about the role of special procedures. 14. The majority of participants expressed support for a stronger and more proactive role for the Coordination Committee which would facilitate the interaction between special procedures and the Human Rights Council and increase synergies between mandate-holders. It would also ensure that mandate-holders speak with one voice, which is particularly important at a time where fundamental reforms, which could have an impact on the role of special procedures, are being discussed. Some participants stressed that, while it was agreeable that there should be a mechanism of coordination, this should not lead to conformity. 15. There was general agreement on the following points: the outgoing chair of the Coordination Committee, or another member, should become an ex officio member of the Committee; due consideration should be given to geographical representation and gender balance in the elections of members; there should be a rotation system; the Committee should be appointed for a one-year term; in case of vacancies, these should be filled through electronic