A/HRC/16/77
(c)
Thereafter, the recommendation will be forwarded to the members of the
International Coordinating Committee Bureau for a decision. If a challenge has been
received from the applicant, the challenge together with all relevant material received in
connection with both the application and the challenge will also be forwarded to the
members of the Bureau;
(d)
Any member of the International Coordinating Committee Bureau who
disagrees with the recommendation shall, within 20 days of its receipt, notify the Chair of
the Subcommittee and the International Coordinating Committee secretariat. The secretariat
will promptly notify all members of the Bureau of the objection raised and will provide all
necessary information to clarify that objection. If within 20 days of receipt of this
information at least four members of the International Coordinating Committee Bureau
coming from not less than two regional groups notify the secretariat that they hold a similar
objection, the recommendation shall be referred to the next Bureau meeting for decision;
(e)
If at least four members coming from two or more regional groups do not
raise any objection to the recommendation within 20 days of its receipt, the
recommendation shall be deemed to be approved by the International Coordinating
Committee Bureau;
(f)
The decision of the International Coordinating Committee Bureau on
accreditation is final.
9.
In accordance with the rules of procedure of the Subcommittee on Accreditation, the
classifications for accreditation are:
A status: Compliance with the Paris Principles;
B status: Not fully in compliance with the Paris Principles or insufficient
information provided to make a determination;
C status: Non-compliance with the Paris Principles.
10. The rules of procedure of the Subcommittee on Accreditation are incorporated as an
annex of the Statute of the International Coordinating Committee of NHRIs (art. 59). The
Canadian Human Rights Commission, together with OHCHR as the International
Coordinating Committee secretariat, developed a compendium that includes extracts from
the Statute relevant to the accreditation process, namely, on the rules of procedure for the
Subcommittee on Accreditation, general observations, working methods, guidelines for
accreditation applications, the template of the Statement of Compliance, and the Paris
Principles. The compendium was submitted to the Subcommittee on Accreditation during
the latter’s March-April session.
11. The Subcommittee on Accreditation continued to receive from civil society
organizations information on the NHRIs considered at its last two sessions, in March/April
and October 2010. Summaries of all communications were prepared by the secretariat and
shared with the relevant NHRIs prior to the review of their applications by the
Subcommittee. NHRIs had one week to provide comments on these summaries.
Subsequently, the summaries and comments were sent to the members of the Subcommittee
on
Accreditation.
The
summaries
and
comments
were
posted
on
(www.nhri.net/default.asp?PID=607&DID=0) following the adoption by the International
Coordinating Committee Bureau of the recommendations of the Subcommittee.
12. In 2010, the Subcommittee on Accreditation increased its efforts to engage NHRI
regional coordinating committees in the accreditation process. The committees of the four
International Coordinating Committee regions each received an invitation to participate, as
observers, in the sessions of the Subcommittee. The Subcommittee welcomed the
attendance of representatives of the secretariat of the Network of African National Human
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