A/HRC/7/2 page 27 90. NGOs also alleged that, according to Colombian legislation, many of the norms contained in the decrees are illegal, since the Government does not have the competence to issue them, but rather, they are the competence of Congress or judges. For this reason, these norms have been filed under administrative contentious proceedings by a large number of Colombian persons and organizations. However, it has been reported that, while the legal decisions concerning these proceedings may take years, the norms contained in the decrees are being applied to the processes before Law 975. 91. No reply was received from the Government regarding this general allegation. Total case transmitted, clarified and outstanding 92. In previous years and during the period under review, the Working Group has transmitted 1,225 cases to the Government; of those, 67 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the source, 201 cases have been clarified on the basis of information provided by the Government and 957 cases remain outstanding. Observations 93. The Working Group notes with satisfaction that, unlike in previous years, only one newly reported case was received by the Working Group. The Working Group hopes that this is a trend that shows that disappearances are no longer occurring in Colombia, rather than being the effect of the phenomenon of underreporting noted in the report of the country visit in 2005. 94. The Working Group expresses concern about allegations regarding the issuances of decrees that are diluting the effects of the Constitutional Court’s decision on certain provisions of the Justice and Peace Law. 95. The Working Group wishes to reaffirm the importance that the Declaration has had as an important precedent for the development of instruments of international human rights law regarding enforced disappearances, such as the Inter-American Convention on the Forced Disappearance of Persons and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. 96. The Working Group reiterates its request to the Government of Colombia to take effective measures to clarify outstanding cases and to implement the recommendations contained in the report of the Working Group issued after its country visit. The Working Group again invites the Government to submit a report on the measures taken to implement the recommendations. Congo Number of outstanding cases at the beginning of the period under review 114 Cases transmitted to the Government during the period under review Cases sent under Cases sent the urgent action under the procedure standard procedure 0 0 Cases clarified during the period under review by: Government Non-governmental sources 0 0 Number of outstanding cases at the end of the year under review 114