GB.338/INS/5

The Standards Initiative: Proposals on further steps to ensure legal certainty and information on other action points in the work plan on the strengthening of the supervisory system

The document captures the outcome of the informal tripartite consultations held in January 2020 encompassing a tripartite exchange of views on proposals to consider further steps to ensure legal certainty, based on the Office paper on the elements and conditions for the operation of an independent body under article 37(2) of the Constitution and of any other consensus-based options, as well as the article 37(1) procedure. The document provides further information on progress in implementing selected proposals of the work plan to strengthen the supervisory machinery (see the draft decision in paragraph 74).