National Assembly Legislation a) Develop and implement the programs, plans and policies relating to the defense of the right of individuals and legal persons to obtain and access information and offer counsel to them. b) Monitor violations, and publish reports and studies that contain the obstacles to exercising the right to obtain and access information and how to overcome them; c) Draft recommendations relating to receiving complaints and procedures for settling, lodging and issuing them; d) Oversee all financial and administrative matters of the Commission while monitoring its proper performance in accordance with State’s policies and directives; e) Provide advice and counsel to the institutions concerned by this law on how to store and archive data and information, and compel them to act on them; f) Organize the Commission’s procedures, keeping its records and correspondence; g) Prepare the proposals of the annual budget and submit them to the competent minister for approval and ratification; h) Prepare the proposals for the request for information forms; i) Draft an annual report in December of each year about the Commission’s activities in the ending year, to be adopted by the competent minister to be a reference for the Commission’s work, with a copy sent to the competent minister and all the parties represented in the Commission; j) Implement and follow on the decisions and directives of the competent minister; k) Represent the Commission for the Right to Access Information within and outside the Sudan; l) Any other functions to be defined in the regulations as part of the Commission’s scope of work. Appealing the Commissioner’s decisions 8. The decisions of the Commissioner or of any of his committees may be appealed with the competent minister within two weeks, and the applicant may resort to the judiciary to appeal the competent minister’s decisions within two months from notification of the decision. Chapter V Obtaining Information