A/HRC/30/69 considerations. They shall take office at the end of the same session. Each officer can be reelected; (b) The Chair-Rapporteur shall perform the functions conferred upon her or him by the resolution that creates or renews the mandate of the Working Group, the methods of work and the decisions of the Working Group. The Chair-Rapporteur shall represent the Working Group before the Human Rights Council, States and other relevant stakeholders. She or he shall chair the sessions of the Working Group; (c) The First Vice-Chair should be the focal point of the Working Group on individual complaints, while the Second Vice-Chair should be the focal point of the Working Group on follow-up on all actions taken by the Working Group; (d) In the exercise of their functions, the Chair-Rapporteur and the Vice-Chairs shall remain under the authority of the Working Group. In the absence of the ChairRapporteur, the First Vice-Chair, or alternatively the Second Vice-Chair, shall temporarily assume the assigned functions of the Chair-Rapporteur as required by the circumstances. In the absence of either Vice-Chair, the remaining Vice-Chair should temporarily assume the assigned functions of the absent Vice-Chair; (e) Each of these three officers shall report fully to the Working Group at the beginning of each session on activities they have undertaken during the intersession, and on any activity undertaken during a session without the other members of the Working Group; (f) interest. The Working Group can appoint at any time a rapporteur on specific issues of 4. The Working Group meets at least three times a year, for at least five to eight working days, generally in Geneva. 5. When the case under consideration or the country visit concerns a country of which one of the members of the Working Group is a national, or in other situations where there may be a conflict of interest, that member shall not participate in the discussion of the case, in the visit or in the preparation of the report on the visit. 6. During the course of its deliberations, when dealing with individual cases or situations, the Working Group renders opinions, which are incorporated into its annual report submitted to the Human Rights Council. The opinions of the Working Group are the result of consensus; where consensus is not reached, the view of a majority of the members of the Working Group is adopted as the view of the Working Group. III. Implementation of the mandate of the Working Group 7. The mandate of the Working Group is to investigate cases of deprivation of liberty imposed arbitrarily. In the discharge of its mandate, the Working Group refers to the relevant international standards set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as to the relevant international instruments accepted by the States concerned, in particular the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951 and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, as well as, when appropriate, the following standards: (a) Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment; 2 (b) Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners; (c) United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty;