2. Meeting records (Content Code B03)

Summary records are issued for public and closed meetings in the working languages of the treaty body.

Refer to the Guidelines for specific types of UN documents and publications: Meeting records for guidance on subject analysis of meeting records. Summary records of human rights treaty bodies for meetings at which periodic reports of States parties were considered are mainly indexed with the primary subjects (tag 650 first indicator 1) for the overall subject area of the treaty and reports, the term PERIODIC REPORTS, and the geographic subject terms for the States parties concerned. Additional primary subject terms may be assigned if there is a particular focus on specific issues. Assign the title subject (tag 630) for the treaty under which the periodic report was submitted. In general, secondary subject terms are not required.

Examples:

191 $a CAT/C/SR.794 $b CAT/C/ $c 39

245 10 $a Compte rendu analytique de la 794e séance tenue au Palais Wilson, à Genève, le mardi 13 novembre 2007 : $b Comité contre la torture, 39e session

630 07 $a Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)

650 17 $a PRISONER TREATMENT
650 17 $a PERIODIC REPORTS
650 17 $a TORTURE PREVENTION
650 17 $a NORWAY

191 $a E/C.12/2007/SR.34 $b E/C.12/ $c 39

245 10 $a Summary record of the 34th meeting, held at the Palais Wilson, Geneva, on Tuesday, 6 November 2007 : $b Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 39th session

630 07 $a International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)

650 17 $a ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
650 17 $a PERIODIC REPORTS
650 17 $a COSTA RICA

For summary records of closed meetings issued in restricted distribution, refer to the guidelines on Works requiring less extensive analysis: Confidential restricted documents.

In addition to issuance as sessional committee documents, meeting records of the Human Rights Committee are compiled and published as UN sales publications in the series Official records of the Human Rights Committee (prior to 1995, in the Yearbook of the Human Rights Committee).

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