text: UNITED NATIONS E •Economic andSocialCouncil UNlJBRARY APH2[)1984 UN/SA t""Ol~S:IIQNDistr. GENERAL E/1984/WG.l/SR.3 23April1984 ORIGINALz ENGLISH Firstregular session, 1984 SESSIONAL WORKING GROOPOFGOVHRNl1ENl'AL EXPERTS ONTHEIMPLEMENl'ATION OF'niEIN'l'ERNATIONAL OOVENANT ONECCl'K)MIC, SOCIAL ANDCULTURAL RIGlTS SU>1MARY RECDRU OFTHE3rdMEE'L'ING Helda tHeadquarters, NewYork, onTuesday, 17April1984,at10a.m. Chairman: Mr.IlliNDIX (Denmark) CONTEN'lS Organization ofwork ThisrecordisSUbject tocorrection.Consideration ofreports submitted inaccordance withCouncil resolution 1988(LX) byStatesparties totheCovenant coooerning rightscovered byarticles 10to'12 /... 84-55648 31038(E)Corrections should besul:Jnitted inoneoftheworking languages. TheyshJuld 'besetforthinamemorandum andalsoincorporated inacopyoftherecord. 'rhey should besentwithin oneweekofthedateofthisdocument totheChief,Official Records EditingSection, Department ofConference Services, roomDC2-750, 2UnitedNations Plaza. Anycorrections totherecords ofthemeetings ofthissession willbe consolidated inasinglecorrigeooum, tobeissuedshortly aftertheendofthe session.E/1984/WG.~SR.3 English Page2 Themeeting wascalledtoorderat10.30a.m. ORGANIZATION OFWORK 1.TheCHAIRMAN saidthattheBureauhaddecided thatitwouldbepossible to consider threereports aday,provided thattheWorking Groupadopted aflexible approach toacccrnrnodate representatives ofStatesparties. Theywouldbegivenone fulldayinwhichtoprepare answers toth~questions raised. Ithadbeendecided topostpone consideration ofthetepor'ts oftheGermanDemocratic Republic, Mexico andPortugal, andpossibly ofDenmark. 2.Mr.YAKOVLEV (UnionofSovietSocialist Republics) saidthatsomeGovernments hadsubnitted asecondperiodic reportoncertain groupsofarticles ofthe Covenant beforetheyhadsubmitted initial reports onothers. Thatmightestablish anunfortunate precedent inthatStatesmightthereby avoidproviding infonnation undercertain articles. Accordingly, thetimeavailable totheWorking Group shouldbeusedtocomplete thefirstcycleofreports, withconsideration ofsecond periodic reports beingpostponed tothefollowing session. Theattention ofS.tates parties should bedrawntotheneedtodischarge theirobligations bycompleting thefirstcyclebeforesubmitting subsequent periodic reports. 3.TheCHAIRMAN saidthatthatpointcouldbetakenuplater. Certainly, Economic andSocial COuncil resolution 1988(LX)didnotestablish anyspecific reporting procedure. CONSIDERATION OFREPORTS SUBMITTED INACOORDANCE WI'llICOUNCIL RESOLUrION 1988(LX) BYSTATES PARTIES 'IQmEOOVEN1I.NT CONCERNING RIQlTS OJVERED BYARTICLES 10TO12 ReportofItaly(E/1980/6/AOd.3l) 4.TheCHAIRMAN saidthattheItalian reporthadbeensupplemented byaninformal addendum, whichwasalsobeforetheWorking Group. 5.Attheinvitation oftheChairman, Mr.Zucconi, Misscao-pinna aoo Mr.Librando (Italy) tookplacesatthetable. 6.Mr.ZUCCOOI (Italy) saidthathisGovernnent, whichhopedtoconclude its report oncultural rightsintimeforfortheWorking Group's 1985session, viewed thethreereports tobesubnittedduring thesix-year cycleasawhole,sothatthe current report onsocialrightsdidnotreproduce material contained inthefirst report, oneconomic rights. ItwouldbeusefuliftheWorking Groupcouldconsider thepossibility ofsimplifying theverydetailed guidelines forthepreparation of thethreereports withaviewtoeasingtheburdenplacedonStatesparties andthe Working Groupitself. Asafurther sirnplificationitmightbefoundpossible to prepare asinglereportonthewholeCovenant, tobesubmitted everyfiveyears, instead ofthreereports inasix-year cycle. Suchasystem wouldbetterreflect therelationship existing amongeconomic, socialandcultural rights. /... ..\E/1984/WG.l/SR.3 English Page--3 (Mr.Zucconi, Italy) 7.Thereporting programme established underCouncil resolution 1988(LX)hadled toseriousdifficulties. Thesituation facingtheWorking Groupwasbeginning to resemble thatencountered bytheCommittee ontheElimination ofRacial Discrimination, whichsuffered fromthelatesubmission ofreports. General
analysis: This text appears to be a meeting record of a working group discussing the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The topics of discussion include reporting procedures, simplification of guidelines, and the relationship among economic, social, and cultural rights. The text does not seem to focus on a specific sector or industry, but rather on the overall implementation of the Covenant.