1.5. 1.6. 1.7. 1.8. 4 rights, it was agreed that a new law must be issued to ensure genuine safeguards and full independence of the NIHR, together with granting it additional competencies and powers in line with the "Paris Principles" on the status of national institutions in the promotion and protection of human rights. In accordance with the constitutional procedures followed in this regard, His Majesty the King issued on 24 July 2014 Law No. (26) of 2014 for the Establishment of the National Institution for Human Rights, approved by the Representatives and the Shura Councils, to create a genuine legal guarantee and provide full independence to the NIHR as well as granting it additional competencies and powers in line with the Paris Principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights. This Law came into force after its publication in the Official Gazette in the supplement to issue No. (3168) dated 7 August 2014. On that basis, the NIHR aimed at gain a permanent and active membership in the Global Alliance of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (GANHRI), through which the NIHR can actively participate in the sessions of the Human Rights Council, meetings of treaty bodies, special procedures, and subcommittees, groups, and task forces, and to speak in its capacity as an official institution of the Kingdom to promote and protect human rights. On 16 July 2015, the NIHR formally submitted an application for accreditation to the Global Alliance's Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA), which is concerned with receiving requests for accreditation from national institutions. On 25 November 2015, the NIHR application was officially accepted and the date to consider it was set on 9 May 2016 during the formal session of the Sub-Committee, which requested the NIHR to submit a report entitled "Statement of Compliance with the Paris Principles on National Human Rights Institutions", containing a number of points centered on its founding, independence, structure, organizational infrastructure, methodologies, competencies, general responsibilities, and the relationship with human rights bodies and authorities. The NIHR sent the Statement of Compliance with the Paris Principles to the Committee four months prior to the date set for considering its application according to the requirements for submitting the accreditation application. The Committee, in its turn, issued a summary report of the Compliance Statement in which it identified a number of issues that need to be focused on and to be incorporated in the applicable law in line with the accreditation requirements. The Sub-Committee communicated over the telephone with the NIHR’s Council of Commissioners on the day scheduled NIHR_Bahrain©CRC_parallel report 2018