98. As the Chair has mentioned, the Council is responsible for a great deal of factual information in the area of technical co-operation. Overall, the documentation produced by the Council is voluminous. Of all of the documentation processed by the Secretariat, both for meetings, councils, committees and other material, we come in on 10% of the entire Secretariat's workload and well over double any other council or committee. It is therefore also a practical matter to work effectively with this information to collect in a more efficient manner and above all to process and disseminate it in a way that is much more useful for delegations.
99. In the area of technical co-operation in particular, there is a number of parallel reporting processes that we have been looking at so as to ensure that material is as consistent as possible and that reporting procedures and obligations are streamlined while not reducing in any way the detail, the content, the usefulness of the information reported. That work is continuing and we would like to invite those delegations with a particular interest in this area to an informal briefing tomorrow, for a first discussion and presentation of suggested prototype for a reporting tool. As with our other steps, to improve the capture and the flow of information the Council is responsible for, this prototype reporting tool does not effect in any way the notification reporting obligations of Members or seek to define those, but rather is established to create a more user-friendly interface for that material to be provided and for it to be managed and disseminated for the benefit of all those seeking to use the information.
