Resolution on Announcement of Public Consultations to Working Groups (AL.ALAC-RES.0709-2)

The ALAC, in order to further improve and promote bottom-up policy advice development by the At-Large community, resolves upon the following process to ensure that Working Groups are acquainted with consultations opened that relate to their area of competence:

• When a public consultation is announced, the Staff shall send notification of the same to the working group that has a remit that would reasonably include work on the subject of the consultation. The ALAC, ALAC-Announce, and Secretariat email lists, and the ALAC Liaison where applicable, will be copied on the communication, as will the chair(s) of the working group.

• The text of that announcement is to include the following information:

• An invitation for the working group to draft a statement on the subject for consideration by the At-Large community.
• If the working group or members thereof believe that a telephonic briefing is essential to the drafting of a comment, the staff will arrange one, wherever possible, at a time and date with reasonable advance to the maximum extent possible.
• That the draft, whenever time allows, should be available for comment by the broader At-Large community for at least a week, and that the working group would then be asked to incorporate those comments received to the extent practical in advance of a vote by the ALAC.
• It will remind the working group that the ALAC requires 5 days to vote on a statement once other processes are finished.