A/HRC/15/17 Commissioner, and by putting in place mechanisms to strengthen cross-divisional coordination and monitor the timeliness of reports. 13. A major challenge to the timely submission of reports remains the need to reconcile the annual programme of work of the Council with the 10-week rule prescribed by the General Assembly. In this respect, it is noted that the submission rate is generally highest for the sessions held in March, probably owing to the 6-month gap between sessions. Late submission is for example unavoidable in the case of reports requested at one session to be submitted for the next, wherein deadlines for submission expire even before the ongoing session is over. Likewise, the timing of meetings of certain subsidiary bodies renders it impossible for the reports thereon to be submitted within deadlines for the Council session at which they are to be considered. 14. To address the above challenge, OHCHR is working closely with the Division of Conference Management on a more comprehensive approach to the planning of the calendar of meetings and documentation. 15. In the most recent report of the Secretary-General on the pattern of conferences, the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management submitted a document for consideration by the Assembly consolidating the existing guidelines on word and page limits and clarifying the number of words per page and pages per document for reports, including all documents submitted by the Secretariat directly and on behalf of intergovernmental bodies (A/65/122, annex VIII). This addressed the fourth OIOS recommendation, on improving the ability of the Secretariat to support the requirements of the Council. 16. The fifth and final recommendation of OIOS directed the Division of Conference Management, in cooperation with OHCHR, to improve coordination of activities that have an impact on the efficient provision of conferencing support to the Council by designating focal points, holding regular meetings and conducting outreach activities. In this regard, it is noted that the President of the Council, the Bureau and the secretariat of the Council maintain close coordination with the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management and the Division of Conference Management in the planning of Council activities and work, and regular meetings are held at the working and senior levels between OHCHR and the Division. Following a meeting between the Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management, the President and the Bureau of the Council to discuss the servicing of the Council by the Division, a tripartite task force was established to examine the problems relevant to the work of the Council. The task force, which comprised representatives from the Office of the President, OHCHR and the Division of Conference Management, identified as major challenges the steadily increasing servicing requirements of the Council. These included in particular the increasing number of new mandates that have to be serviced from “within existing resources” and the need to address the entire spectrum of servicing requirements, ranging from conference servicing, administration and security to webcasting. 17. The above-mentioned coordinating body has jointly produced documentation endorsing the mutual and specific requirements to support the Council and its mechanisms, and is similarly taking action to address issues of broader significance relating to standards of accessibility for universal participation by persons with disabilities in the Council’s proceedings. The close cooperation engendered by the task force has led to a number of solutions to the issues of the processing of universal periodic review reports, namely, the issuance of outstanding reports and the establishment of word limits and joint planning efforts, as a result of which almost all review reports are submitted, translated and processed in a timely manner. The task force also meets to review the status of compliance with planning targets and to discuss measures to address potential difficulties before they reach Member States. In this regard, responsible officers of the Division of Conference 5