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made in that regard, within two years after the entry into force of the present
Convention for the State Party concerned.

2. Thereafter, States Parties shall submit subsequent reports at least every
four years and further whenever the Committee so requests.

3. The Committee shall decide any guidelines applicable to the content of
the reports.

4. A State Party which has submitted a comprehensive initial report to the
Committee need not, in its subsequent reports, repeat information previously
provided. When preparing reports to the Committee, States Parties are invited
to consider doing so in an open and transparent process and to give due
consideration to the provision set out in article 4, paragraph 3, of the present
Convention.

5. Reports may indicate factors and difficulties affecting the degree of
fulfilment of obligations under the present Convention.

Article 36
Consideration of reports

1. Each report shall be considered by the Committee, which shall make
such suggestions and general recommendations on the report as it may
consider appropriate and shall forward these to the State Party concerned. The
State Party may respond with any information it chooses to the Committee.
The Committee may request further information from States Parties relevant to
the implementation of the present Convention.

2. If a State Party is significantly overdue in the submission of a report, the
Committee may notify the State Party concerned of the need to examine the
implementation of the present Convention in that State Party, on the basis of
reliable information available to the Committee, if the relevant report is not
submitted within three months following the notification. The Committee shall
invite the State Party concerned to participate in such examination. Should the
State Party respond by submitting the relevant report, the provisions of
paragraph 1 of this article will apply.

3. The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall make available the
reports to all States Parties.

4. States Parties shall make their reports widely available to the public in
their own countries and facilitate access to the suggestions and general
recommendations relating to these reports.

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