A/HRC/43/71 (c) A business enterprise granting a relevant franchise or licence to a franchisee or licensee engaged in a listed activity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. 13. In temporal terms, OHCHR required the involvement to have taken place during the period from 1 January 2018 to 1 August 2019. Listed activities 14. As already noted in paragraph 6 above, the Human Rights Council defined the specific activities to be reflected in the database by reference to those set out by the factfinding mission (A/HRC/22/63, para. 96). 15. Due to the specific formulation of certain listed activities, the additional considerations set out below were taken into account. Activities listed in paragraph 6 (a), (b), (c) and (d) above: activities of “supply” 16. The activities listed in the report of the fact-finding mission and reproduced in para. 6 (a), (b) and (d) above involve the supply of equipment, services or materials for certain purposes, uses or effects. The notion of “supply” was considered to encompass, as relevant, processes of manufacture, provision and/or distribution of equipment, services and/or materials that have been employed for those purposes, uses or effects. 17. In relation to paragraph 6 (c), the listed activity is formulated more restrictively to indicate that the relevant equipment must be specifically supplied for the particular purpose of demolishing or destroying the forms of property set out in that subparagraph. Activity listed in paragraph 6 (g) above 18. The activity listed in paragraph 6 (g) above refers to the use of natural resources, in particular water and land, for business purposes. As such, it includes business enterprises that are physically located in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and those that benefit commercially from the use of natural resources located in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, irrespective of their physical presence there. IV. Methods of work 19. In fulfilling the mandate contained in Human Rights Council resolution 31/36, OHCHR applied the comprehensive methodology already outlined in the previous report on the matter (A/HRC/37/39, paras. 7–25). The work done by OHCHR to produce the database, in full compliance with the above-mentioned resolution, is not and does not purport to constitute a judicial or quasi-judicial process of any kind or to provide any legal characterization of the listed activities or business enterprises’ involvement in them. Rather, it provides the Council with the requested factual determinations as to those business enterprises that were involved in the listed activities (A/HRC/37/39, para. 8). 20. The direct contact held between OHCHR and all screened business enterprises, in consultation with the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, sought to ensure procedural fairness and consistency in the conclusions reached. 21. Since the previous report, a further analysis was carried out of the 206 business enterprises assessed, which in turn resulted in 188 business enterprises being identified for additional consideration. The enterprises that were not included for additional consideration were set aside, in particular, because there was insufficient factual basis in the submissions or in the public domain to support the contentions of their involvement in the listed activities. The 188 business enterprises were contacted between September 2017 and October 2018. 22. By letter, OHCHR informed each of the above-mentioned 188 business enterprises of the listed activities that they appeared to be involved in, based on the totality of information reviewed by it, and set out the basic facts of the enterprises’ alleged involvement in the listed activity or activities. The business enterprises were requested to 4

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