Assembly/AU/4(XII) Annex III Page 24 vi) i) status with the AU Commission, or working with it, including the principle of impartiality. it shall belong to a recognized regional or continental umbrella/network of CSOs. Annual meeting of the PSC with ECOSOCC. 5. The PSC will hold an annual meeting with ECOSOCC, in its consultative role, on a given theme relating to peace, security and stability in Africa or a related issue. Such a meeting should be timed in such a manner that relevant inputs provided by CSOs would be considered before finalization of the Report of the Peace and Security Council on its Activities and the State of Peace and Security in Africa to the Assembly of the AU during the Summit. ii) Invitation to PSC meetings: 6. The Chairperson of the PSC, in consultation with all the members of the PSC, as well as with the Commission, and within the framework of rules 21 and 22 in the Rules of Procedure of the PSC, may invite a CSO to address, through their mandated representative, a PSC meeting on an issue under consideration, provided that the invited CSO is concerned with the situation to be considered by that meeting. iii) Submission of reports to the PSC: 7. CSOs may submit reports, to the AU Commission for its consideration during the process of preparation of reports to the meetings of the PSC. iv) Providing information to PSC field missions and AU fact-finding missions: 8. CSOs, to the extent possible, and concerned by a situation within the mandate of a given mission, may provide information to such missions and may also form part of such missions-in-visit as observers specifically to the affected area, if invited and at their own cost. C) Mechanisms for facilitating interaction: i. ii. Chairperson of the PSC may invite, in consultation with all the members of the PSC and the Commission, CSOs to PSC meetings, on a case-by-case basis, when so required and when a request from a CSO is received by the Chairperson of the PSC; Chairperson of the Commission, shall consider a request for accreditation of a civil society representative to participate in a PSC meeting to which he/she is invited in accordance with the provisions of Rule 22 in the Rules of Procedure of the PSC;