First report: Important developments and substantive issues, March-July 2016 2016, para. 37d
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The level of resourcing of oversight of the proposed mass surveillance under the draft law is hopelessly inadequate and of the wrong type. The new law envisages a three-member committee that is only required to meet four times a year and which may not have sufficient staff or resources to oversee mass surveillance operations that are, by their very definition, extensive in scope. This leaves the Special Rapporteur in exactly the same zone of concern as that expressed by Mr. Muižnieks. Moreover, given that the appointment and composition of the membership comes from the executive does nothing to strengthen the impression of independent oversight.