Vi) International oversight and monitoring body
79. A number of comments called for any adjudicatory or grievance mechanism to be established by the convention and that should operate with full transparency; others expressed disappointment that the individual right to petition the Committee is only given in respect of those countries that consent to such a process.
80. One State underlined that the provision regarding the Conciliation commission was not sufficiently detailed and did not specify what would happen if a State did not accept the recommendations of the conciliation commission and if accepted who would be responsible to implement these recommendations. Some also thoughts that such a confidential, inter-state dispute resolution mechanism was not necessary to ensure the implementation of the Convention.
81. Other interventions cautioned that the need for transparency must not overshadow privacy rights or lead to a freezing of cooperation from the industry itself.
82. Finally some experts raised the fact that special attention would need to be paid to ensuring that less developed states have support to strengthen their capacity to regulate PMSCs, both through the technical assistance of the Committee and through funding.
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