A/HRC/4/81 page 4 11. An informal brainstorming meeting on treaty body reform, organized jointly by OHCHR and the Government of Liechtenstein, was held in Liechtenstein from 14 to 16 July 2006. Representatives of regional groups, treaty bodies, institutions and bodies of the United Nations system, NGOs and NHRIs attended the meeting and discussed treaty body reform with the High Commissioner for Human Rights. A preliminary non-paper on legal options was finalized and made available to participants. 12. The working group on the harmonization of working methods of treaty bodies, consisting of a representative of each treaty body established by the fifth ICM, met from 27 to 28 November 2006 at OHCHR in Geneva (see HRI/MC/2007/2). The working group discussed the suggestions of the respective committees which included proposals from CEDAW to create a harmonized and integrated treaty bodies system; from the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) to establish a single body to deal with individual complaints; and from CRC to establish a coordinating body or management bureau of treaty body representatives to focus on the harmonization of working methods and the streamlining of reporting guidelines. HRC suggested that the annual Inter-Committee Meeting and Meeting of Chairpersons (ICM/MC) be replaced by a single coordinating body composed of treaty body representatives with responsibility for the effective oversight of all questions relating to the harmonization of working methods. CAT suggested that treaty bodies with complaints competence nominate one of their members to participate in single or joint meetings that could take up hypothetical or real communications to determine essential congruence in the norms to which petitioners address themselves, and jurisprudential and institutional variations between the committees. 13. The working group will finalize its work in May 2007. 14. Pursuant to a recommendation of the fourth ICM and the seventeenth meeting of chairpersons, an inter-committee working group was established to examine the report on the practice of human rights treaty bodies with respect to reservations to international human rights treaties (HRI/MC/2005/5). The working group on reservations met for the first time on 8 and 9 June 2006 in Geneva where it examined the report on reservations and an update to the report (HRI/MC/2005/5 and Add.1) and adopted a number of recommendations which are contained in the report of the meeting (HRI/MC/2006/5/Rev.1). The report was presented to the fifth ICM and eighteenth meeting of chairpersons which extended the mandate of the working group. The working group reconvened in Geneva on 14 and 15 December 2006. The report of the second meeting will be presented to the sixth ICM in June 2007. The International Law Commission has also invited representatives of treaty bodies to participate in a meeting to discuss issues related to reservations to be held in Geneva on 15 and 16 May 2007. General comments and general recommendations 15. General comments/recommendations adopted by the treaty bodies during the reporting period up to May 2006 are compiled in HRI/GEN/1/Rev.8. At its forty-second session in May 2006, CRC adopted general comment No. 8 on the right of the child to protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment (CRC/C/GC/8), and at its forty-third session in September 2006, the Committee adopted general comment No. 9 on the rights of children with disabilities (CRC/C/GC/9). At its forty-fourth session in January/February 2007, the Committee adopted general comment No. 10 on children’s rights in juvenile justice (CRC/C/GC/10).