Preparation and use of focused summaries

The Committee shall include in its annual report a summary of the communications examined and, where appropriate a summary of the explanations and statements of the States parties concerned and of its own suggestions and recommendations.

The Committee may decide to include in its annual report a summary of the complaints examined and, where the Committee considers appropriate, a summary of the explanations and statements of the States parties concerned and of the Committee's evaluation thereof.

Work programme (WP) Activity 1.1 Develop a clear communication strategy between the activities of the GoE, end users and the research community

Summary of the discussions on input of the Group of

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At its fourth session, the Committee agreed that focused summaries were complementary to the process of regulatory action and would facilitate its work and approved the working paper on the preparation and use of focused summaries (UNEP FAO PIC ICRC.4 18, para.

The Committee may wish to take note of the report, and to give further necessary guidance to the GoE with respect to the various summaries, conclusions and recommendations it contains.

In accordance with established practice, those informal summaries were included for reference purposes only, and were not intended as a record of the discussion.

The following summaries have been prepared by the secretariat based on contributions received up to the time this report was finalized.

Manual evaluation can be used, but this is both time and labor intensive as it requires humans to read not only the summaries but also the source documents.

The Committee recommended that the guidance for the preparation of focused summaries should point out that the summaries were intended to supplement and not to supplant the supporting documentation.

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This note summarizes the proceedings and outcome of the seventh meeting of the LEG and follow up action thereon.

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The Executive Secretaries of the regional commissions participated actively in all the meetings of the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs.

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Participation of women in executive authorities.

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