31. The Chairperson said that for the Council's next meeting, in the week of 18 June 2001, the reviews of the legislation of 24 Members were scheduled to be initiated and for the meeting in the week of 26 November 2001, those of 17 Members.3 According to the procedures applicable to these reviews, Members would be taken up in alphabetical order, while allowing for flexibility to take account of the special needs of particular delegations. Pursuant to the procedures followed in 2000, he drew lots to determine which of the Members concerned would be taken up first. Thus, he suggested that, in June, the review of the legislation of Dominica would be initiated first and, in November, that of the legislation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, followed by the other Members in alphabetical order. He recalled that, as regards the reviews scheduled for the meeting in the week of 18 June 2001, the Council had agreed, at the previous meeting, that questions to the Members concerned should be submitted by 9 April 2001 and the written responses of these Members by 21 May 2001. As regards the reviews in the week of 26 November 2001, he suggested that questions to the Members concerned should be submitted by 14 September 2001 and responses to questions posed within that deadline by 26 October 2001.
