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OHCHR INFORMAL BRIEFING ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODY STRENGTHENING PROCESS -
EU STATEMENT

02.11.2023
Geneva
Press and information team of the Delegation to the UN in Geneva


OHCHR informal briefing on the Human Rights Treaty Body strengthening process

1 November 2023

EU statement

 

High Commissioner,

The EU and its Member States wish to commend your office for the work and
reflection in support of the process of strengthening the Treaty Body system.

We reaffirm the importance of the Treaty Bodies in the protection and promotion
of human rights. We ourselves strive to ratify the international instruments in
the area of human rights and related protocols, and to recognise the competence
of the corresponding Treaty Bodies, and we encourage other States to do the
same. We underline the need to fully respect the Treaty Bodies independence, and
to prevent and react to any intimidation or reprisals against those who
collaborate with the Treaty Bodies.

Treaty Bodies have a prominent role within the entire human rights system and
should contribute to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the system. 

We therefore welcome the OHCHR working paper and would like to offer the
following comments:

 1. In terms of the schedule of reviews, we express our firm support for the
    establishment of a predictable schedule over 8 years for the Treaty Bodies
    that have periodic reviews, allowing for the completion of reviews for all
    State Parties regardless of the submission of their report or their
    effective participation to the review, as well as limiting overlaps and
    facilitating cost-efficient preparations for States. While we still analyse
    the benefits of the respective options, we encourage further pilot testing
    of clustered reviews in the coming months.
 2. Concerning follow-up reviews we would see the option 1 “correspondence only”
    as the simplest and low-cost solution, already well tested by several Treaty
    Bodies. We also support the idea of a limited number of issues that could be
    raised in such a follow-up review (up to 4 issues as recommended by the
    Chairs in their conclusions last June).
 3. We further very strongly encourage the harmonization of the working methods
    of the Treaty Bodies, while recognizing their specificities, including the
    generalised use of simplified reporting procedures, coordination on list of
    issues prior to reporting, and limiting the list of issues to 25 to 30
    questions. Many of these proposals do not need any further guidance or
    budget allocation from Member States, but can be - and should be -
    implemented immediately. We believe that cross-treaty bodies coordination
    should be further developed and strengthened, and we believe that the
    practice so far has not been sufficient.
 4. Finally, we have been very supportive of the efforts to ensure a digital
    uplift and we encourage further work to introduce the adapted online tools
    and platforms. A key priority for the digital uplift should be the
    introduction of a digital case management system and an online submission
    platform for individual complaints, as recommended in the 2020 Treaty Body
    review process. The current alarming backlog in the review of individual
    communications leaves complainants in legal uncertainty for a very long
    time, which has a serious impact on victims and rights-holders. A modern,
    digital case management system and an online submission platform, meeting
    the requirements of handling sensitive data, would, when paired with clear
    admissibility criteria, enhance the efficiency and transparency of the
    system, and would benefit all parties involved in the litigation of
    individual cases before the Treaty Bodies.

We wish to invite the Office to finalize the implementation plan, so that the
discussions next year on the SG report and the biennial GA resolution could
provide an opportunity for decisions, when relevant. We also understand the need
for providing the adequate resources for the implementation of some of the
presented workstrands. We would welcome further evaluation of the resource
implications by the OHCHR in order to allow forthcoming discussions.

In the meantime, we encourage to start putting into place various measures that
do not require further guidance by Member States, since they are already covered
by the resolution 68/268 and subsequent resolutions and reports concerning
Treaty Body reform.

We thank you once again for the opportunity of such an informal exchange today
and look forward to supporting the progress on the implementation.

I thank you,


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