What is the status of the Norms right now and what is happening in the near future?
Right now, the Norms are attached to the Working Group on the Working Methods and Activities of Transnational Corporation’s 2002 Working Group Report (UN Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2002/13). According to Sub-Commission resolution 2002/17, the Working Group will disseminate the Norms until the 2003 Sub-Commission meeting with the hopes of attaining greater awareness of the document. The Working Group will take comments on the substance of the document at its 2003 sessional meetings during the Sub-Commission’s meeting in August 2003, and it is expected that the Working Group will adopt a revised text to send to the Sub-Commission for consideration and adoption. At that point, the Sub-Commission may decide to request the Commission to adopt the document, or to create a group of experts, working group, or Special Rapporteur to further examine these issues. The document could then move to the Commission where it would remain until the Commission decided to address the matter.
