4. In compliance with the provisions of Paragraph (a) of Article Number (5) of the Establishment Law: “The appointment of the members of the Council of Commissioners shall be by virtue of a Royal decree for a period of four years that is renewable for identical periods,” where it determined that those appointments shall materialize “in the wake of consultations with the relevant civil society organizations as well as other various groups,” and Paragraph (b) of the same Article provides that the chairman and his deputy shall be elected from among the full-time members, and what was provided in Paragraph (c) of Article Number (3) of the Law establishing the National Institution: “A Royal decree shall be issued defining the mechanisms, procedures and rules for selecting the members of the Council of Commissioners.” Moreover, the Royal Decree Number (17) of 2017 was issued outlining the rules for appointing the members of the Council of Commissioners of the National Institution for Human Rights, which made it mandatory for the member of the Council of Commissioners of the National Institution for Human Rights- to ensure his independence- in addition to the membership conditions provided in Article (4) of Law Number (26) of 2014 on the establishment of the National Institution for Human Rights, as follows: a. He shall not be a member of any political society, and excepted from this are members of the legislative authority who are endowed with the right to deliberate and discuss without having voting rights. b. He shall have an advanced academic degree and is versed in one of the official languages of the United Nations in addition to the Arabic language for the full-time member. c. He shall have been a member two years at least for those who are appointed from civil society organizations and professional and associations and unions. d. He shall be at a minimum an assistant professor for those recruited from academic institutions. e. He shall have clear and tangible contributions in the field of human rights. 5. Moreover, Article 11 of Royal Edict Number (17) of 2017 emphasized that “due regard should be given to the hereunder upon selecting the members of the Council of Commissioners: “Representation of the wide spectrum of society without any discrimination based on gender or origin or religion or belief or physical handicap,… and ensuring that women are suitably represented, minorities represented, along with the necessity of the presence of a suitable number of persons specialized in legal fields as well as other fields which are at the heart of the activities of the National Institution, in addition to preventing direct or indirect conflict of interest. The Royal Decree entrusted the Minister of the Royal Court to undertake the necessary consultations to nominate persons for full and part-time membership of the Council of Commissioners”. 6. Accordingly, Royal Order Number (23) of 2017 was issued appointing the members of the Council of Directors of the National Institution for Human Rights, where the Royal Edict included naming four full-time members, and five part-time members, in addition to two members representing the legislative authority in terms of the Shura Council and the House of Representatives, and the Royal Order also included, from among the fulltime and part-time members, five female members, two of whom are full-time, provided that the tenure of all the members is four years subject to renewal. Actually, in the first meeting of the Council of Commissioners the chairman and his deputy were elected, as well as the chairmen of the three permanent qualitative committees. 12