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OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE CONVENTION ON THE
                                         RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

                                  The States Parties to the present Protocol have agreed as follows:

                                                          Article 1

                            1.    A State Party to  the present  Protocol  (“State Party”) recognizes  the
                            competence of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“the
                            Committee”) to  receive and  consider communications  from or on  behalf of
                            individuals or groups of individuals subject to its jurisdiction who claim to be
                            victims of a violation by that State Party of the provisions of the Convention.

                            2.    No communication shall be received by the Committee if it concerns a
                            State Party to the Convention that is not a party to the present Protocol.

                                                          Article 2

                                  The Committee shall consider a communication inadmissible when:

                                  (a)   The communication is anonymous;
                                  (b)   The communication constitutes an abuse  of the right of
                                       submission of such communications  or  is incompatible with  the
                                       provisions of the Convention;
                                  (c)   The same matter has already been examined by the Committee or
                                       has  been  or is being examined under  another procedure  of
                                       international investigation or settlement;
                                  (d)   All  available domestic remedies  have not been  exhausted.  This
                                       shall not be the rule  where the  application of the  remedies is
                                       unreasonably prolonged or unlikely to bring effective relief;
                                  (e)   It is manifestly ill-founded or  not sufficiently substantiated;  or
                                       when
                                  (f)   The facts that are the subject of the communication occurred prior
                                       to the entry into force of the present Protocol for the State Party
                                       concerned unless those facts continued after that date.

                                                          Article 3

                                  Subject to  the  provisions  of  article 2  of the present Protocol, the
                            Committee shall bring  any communications  submitted to  it confidentially to
                            the attention  of the State  Party.  Within six months, the receiving State  shall
                            submit  to the Committee written explanations or statements clarifying the
                            matter and the remedy, if any, that may have been taken by that State.
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