A/HRC/9/18 page 5 outcome of the review were to be submitted. (Resolution 5/1 did not provide details regarding the report of the outcome of the review. In April 2008, the President of the Council provided additional details about these reports, but did not define their length.) Sixteen State party reports were examined at each of the first two sessions, and reports on each State were presented to the Council at its eighth session. Table 1 Documents processed for the universal periodic review Sessions First universal periodic review session Second session Pre-session Additional pre-session pages forecast pages processed 594 620 555 640 Report submitted to the Human Rights Council Total pre-session Outcome pages submitted reports Total (No. of pages) 1 214 419 1 6372 (66 documents) 1 195 452 1 6483 (65 documents) 1 001 1 001 (55 documents) A detailed explanation of the documents submission for the two universal periodic review sessions is submitted in annex IV. 8. Documentation to be submitted for the third session (to be held in December 2008) of the universal periodic review is forecast to comprise 1,038 standard pages (48 documents) for the pre-session, 467 pages (16 documents) for the session itself, and 285 pages (17 documents) for the post-session, making a total of 1,790 pages and 81 documents. It is anticipated that future sessions will follow this documentation pattern. 2. Costs of the documentation 9. The pre- and post-session universal periodic review documents for the first two sessions of the working group in 2008, together with the pre-session documents submitted to the Council (1,001 estimated standard pages), comprise a total of 186 documents, amounting to 4,286 estimated standard pages of text. Based on the actual number of estimated standard pages submitted for translation into the six official languages, as well as reproduction and distribution during the first two sessions of the working group (i.e., excluding the 1,001 pages of universal 2 Includes four pages of corrigenda. 3 Includes one page of corrigenda.

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