the obligations arising from these rights in respect of both the State and the companies involved in extractive industries. III. Process followed in adoption of the Guidelines Following the adoption of Resolution 364 on Developing Reporting Guidelines with Respect to the Extractive Industries during the Commission’s 59th Ordinary Session, I convened a technical expert meeting on the elaboration of the draft guidelines on 2 to 3 December 2016 in Dakar, Senegal, in my capacity as Chairperson of the Working Group on Extractive Industries. This meeting laid down the parameters and set in motion the process for the drafting of the state reporting guidelines and principles relating to Articles 21 and 24 of the African Charter. Following development of the draft guidelines and principles, a second technical expert consultation was held on 14 to 15 September 2017 in Dakar. This provided an opportunity for reviewing, updating and validating the initial draft on state reporting guidelines and the principles relating to Articles 21 and 24 of the African Charter. This expert validated draft was thereafter presented for a stakeholder consultation during a panel discussion at the 61st Ordinary Session of the Commission in November 2017 and was also placed on the website of the Commission for further input from stakeholders who were not able to attend the Session. The final guidelines and principles were adopted by the Commission at its 62nd Ordinary Session in May 2018. Finally, I wish to acknowledge with appreciation the support of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie for the printing of this document. Solomon Ayele Dersso Chairperson of the WGEI viii |  African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights