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1. The Committee shall not consider a communication unless it has ascertained that all available domestic remedies have been exhausted. This shall not be the rule where the application of such remedies is unreasonably prolonged.
2. The Committee shall declare a communication inadmissible when:
a) It is not submitted within one year after the exhaustion of domestic remedies, except in cases where the author can demonstrate that it had not been possible to submit the communication within that time limit;
b) 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;
c) 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;
d) It is incompatible with the provisions of the Covenant;
e) It is manifestly ill-founded, not sufficiently substantiated or exclusively based on reports disseminated by mass media;
f) It is an abuse of the right to submit a communication; or when
g) It is anonymous or not in writing.