At its 55th meeting, on 4 March 1994, the Commission decided, without a vote, to request the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities to reconsider, without prejudice to the independence of the Sub-Commission and its members, its decisions to recommend the new studies and related efforts identified in draft decisions 1, 2, 4, 8 and 13 contained in the report of the Sub-Commission (E/CN.4/1994/2). The Commission also decided that it was unnecessary or premature to make any determination on these studies and related efforts and requested the Sub-Commission to present its recommendations, having due regard for any working papers the experts may wish to prepare without financial implications, to the Commission at its fifty-first session, in so far as appropriate, in the light of the guidelines adopted by the Sub-Commission at its forty-fourth session concerning its methods of work (resolution 1992/8 of 26 August 1992), as well as the need for the Sub-Commission to improve its deliberative processes, to avoid overloading its agenda with materials that are not adequately discussed and to establish priorities in its work, in particular to leave adequate time and resources for the consideration of new developments in the field of human rights.

[See chap. XVII.]