Report of the Open-ended Working Group on the Elaboration of a Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 7. At the 16th meeting, on 22 March, the Commission had before it the draft report of the Open-ended Working Group on the Elaboration of a Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (E/CN.6/1996/WG/L.1 and Add.1), submitted by the Chairperson of the Working Group, Ms. Wörgetter (Austria), who orally revised it. 8. At the same meeting, the Commission adopted the draft report of the Working Group, as orally revised, and agreed to annex it to the final report of the Commission (see annex III below). 9. The observer for Sweden made a statement. -90-