The report
of the Government machinery, and of producing a report.
drawn up by the assessment office will include factual summaries of
all the views expressed,
assessment of the extent of
The report will be published in
and an overall
acceptance of the draft agreement.
Hong Kong.
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7. It is also proposed that a small independent team should be
appointed to monitor the work of the assessment office. The role of
the monitors' will be to ensure that the assessment is carried out properly, accurately and impartially by the assessment office, and that the office has followed the prescribed procedures faithfully in drawing up a report on the comments made. The monitors will not
collect or assess opinion themselves. They will witness different
aspects of the exercise of consultation, have acces S to the material
on which the assessment report was based and publish their findings
at the same time as the assessment report. The assessment report
and the views of the monitors on whether they are satisfied with the
way the
assessment office has discharged its duties will be
presented to Parliament in a Ministerial statement.
Hong Kong Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
18 July 1984