A/HRC/27/45 7. In resolution 2005/4, the Commission decided to renew the mandate of the Working Group for one year and to convene it for a period of 10 working days, 5 of them to be allocated to a second meeting of the high-level task force. It endorsed the recommendation of the Working Group at its sixth session to extend the mandate of the high-level task force for a further period of one year to examine Millennium Development Goal 8, on global partnership for development, and suggest criteria for its periodic evaluation, with the aim of improving the effectiveness of global partnerships with regard to the realization of the right to development. 8. In its resolution 1/4, the Human Rights Council endorsed the conclusions and recommendations of the Working Group at its seventh session, inter alia to renew the mandate of the high-level task force for a further period of one year to enable it to apply the criteria enumerated in its report, on a pilot basis, to selected partnerships, with a view to operationalizing and progressively developing those criteria. The Council also decided to renew the mandate of the Working Group for a period of one year, to meet for a period of five working days to consider the findings and recommendations of the task force and further initiatives in accordance with its mandate, and requested the high-level task force to meet for a period of five working days. 9. In resolution 4/4, the Human Rights Council endorsed the road map outlined in paragraphs 52 to 54 of the Working Group’s report on its eighth session, including a request to the high-level task force to consolidate its findings and present a revised list of right to development criteria along with corresponding operational subcriteria and outline suggestions for further work, including aspects of international cooperation not covered until then. The Council decided that the criteria, as endorsed by the Working Group, should be used, as appropriate, in the elaboration of a comprehensive and coherent set of standards for the implementation of the right to development, and that, upon completion of the above phases, the Working Group should take appropriate steps to ensure respect for and the practical application of those standards, which could take various forms, including guidelines on the implementation of the right to development, and evolve into a basis for consideration of an international legal standard of a binding nature, through a collaborative process of engagement. In the same resolution, the Council also decided to renew the Working Group’s mandate for a period of two years, to convene in annual sessions of five working days, and to renew the mandate of the high-level task force for a period of two years, to convene in annual sessions of seven working days. 10. In resolution 9/3 and in successive resolutions,1 most recently resolution 24/4, the Human Rights Council reiterated the tasks entrusted to the Working Group in resolution 4/4, the purposes set out therein for which the criteria would serve once considered, revised and endorsed by the Working Group, and the steps to be taken by the Working Group upon completion. In resolution 9/3, the Council decided to renew the mandate of the Working Group until it had completed those tasks, and that it should convene annual sessions of five working days. The Council also decided to renew the mandate of the high-level task force until the eleventh session of the Working Group, in 2010, and that the task force would convene annual sessions of seven working days. 11. In resolution 12/23, the Human Rights Council tasked the Working Group to consider, revise and endorse the right to development criteria and corresponding operational subcriteria. 12. In resolution 21/32, the Human Rights Council welcomed the launching in the Working Group of the process of considering, revising and refining the draft right to 1 4 Human Rights Council resolutions 12/23, 15/25, 18/26 and 19/34.