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1. The Committee shall not consider a communication unless it has ascertained that all available domestic remedies have been exhausted unless the application of such remedies is unreasonably prolonged or unlikely to bring effective relief.
2. The Committee shall declare a communication inadmissible where:
a) The same matter has already been examined by the Committee or has been or is being examined under another procedure of international investigation or settlement;
b) It is incompatible with the provisions of the Convention;
c) It is manifestly ill-founded or not sufficiently substantiated;
d) It is an abuse of the right to submit a communication;
e) The facts that are the subject of the communication occurred prior to the entry into force of the present Protocol for the State Party concerned unless those facts continued after that date.