4.
The Committee shall consider communications received under this article in the light of all
information made available to it by or on behalf of the individual and by the State Party
concerned.
5.
The Committee shall not consider any communications from an individual under this article
unless it has ascertained that:
a.
The same matter has not been, and is not being, examined under another procedure of
international investigation or settlement;
b.
The individual has exhausted all available domestic remedies; this shall not be the rule
where the application of the remedies is unreasonably prolonged or is unlikely to bring
effective reliefto the person who is the victim of the violation of this Convention.
5.
The Committee shall hold closed meetings when examining communications under this
article.
6.
The Committee shall forward its views to the State Party concerned and to the individual.
7.
The provisions of this article shall come into force when five States Parties to this Convention
have made declarations under paragraph 1 of this article. Such declarations shall be deposited
by the States Parties with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall transmit
copies thereof to the other States Parties. A declaration may be withdrawn at any time by
notification to the Secretary-General. Such a withdrawal shall not prejudice the consideration
of any matter which is the subject of a communication already transmitted under this article;
no further communication by or on behalf of an individual shall be received under this article
after the notification of withdrawal of the declaration has been received by the SecretaryGeneral, unless the State Party has made a new declaration.
Article 23
The members of the Committee and of the ad hoc conciliation commissions which may be
appointed under article 21, paragraph I (e), shall be entitled to the facilities, privileges and
immunities of experts on mission for the United Nations as laid down in the relevant sections of
the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations.
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