A/HRC/15/25 notification. The Committee shall invite the State party concerned to participate in such examination. Should the State party respond by submitting the relevant report, the provisions of paragraph 1 of this article shall apply. 3. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall make available the reports to all States parties. 4. States parties shall make their reports widely available to the public in their own countries and facilitate access to the observations and recommendations relating to these reports. 5. The Committee shall transmit, as it may consider appropriate, to the specialized agencies, funds and programmes of the United Nations and other competent bodies, reports from States parties in order to address a request or indication of a need for technical advice or assistance contained therein, along with the Committee’s observations and recommendations, if any, on these requests or indications. Article 33 Inquiry procedure 1. If the Committee receives reliable information indicating grave or systematic violations of the provisions set forth in this Convention, the Committee shall invite the State where the offences have been reported to have occurred and/or the State of registration of the PMSC reportedly involved in such offences to cooperate in the examination of the information and to this end to submit observations with regard to the information concerned. 2. Taking into account any observations which may have been submitted by the State(s) concerned as well as any other relevant information available to it, the Committee may, if it decides that this is warranted, designate one or more of its members to make a confidential inquiry and to report to the Committee urgently. 3. If an inquiry is made in accordance with paragraph 2, the Committee shall seek the cooperation of the States concerned. In agreement with the State(s) concerned, such an inquiry may include a visit in loco. 4. After examining the findings of its member or members submitted in accordance with paragraph 2, the Committee shall transmit these findings to the State(s) concerned, together with any comments or suggestions which seem appropriate in view of the situation. 5. All the proceedings of the Committee referred to in paragraphs 1 to 4 of this article shall be confidential, and at all stages of the proceedings the cooperation of the State(s) concerned shall be sought. After such proceedings have been completed with regard to an inquiry made in accordance with paragraph 2, the Committee may, after consultations with the State(s) concerned, decide to include a summary account of the results of the proceedings in its annual report to the General Assembly made in accordance with article 37. Article 34 Complaints against parties 1. A State party to this Convention may at any time declare under this article that it recognizes the competence of the Committee to receive and consider communications to GE.10-15155 37