18 Compendium: High Level Review of United Nations Sanctions tion to cooperation with other international bodies on sanctions implementation—were also noted. There is currently no mechanism for expert group recommendations or procedures of one committee to be applicable to other sanctions regimes so as to ensure consistent approaches to implementation across regimes. Uneven resourcing of individual sanctions committees was also a subject of discussion. The Subsidiary Organs branch (Sanctions Branch of the Secretariat) organises its support along committee lines (that is, allocating staff to support individual committees). This can result in inconsistencies in the administration of different sanctions regimes and in the way committees conduct business that are not justified by the technical requirements of the regimes themselves. It also prevents the Secretariat from acting as a point of coordination on committee practices. Such technical inconsistencies do not serve Member States’ needs for clear guidance on implementing sanctions. The current system provides multiple sources of sometimes inconsistent advice and different treatment of the same types of measures. Worse, the system begins to have its own political dynamic. Differing committee procedures, for example regarding the length of time decisions can be deferred, lead to perceptions that some sanctions are more important than others. The consultations revealed that the two dimensions of sanctions administration, the political (Member State engagement, decision making) and the technical (dissemination of sanctions measures and guidance on implementation), demand different approaches. The “political dimension” of each sanctions regime requires a dedicated sanctions committee to manage the relationships with interested States and organisations, to monitor implementation, and consider responses to noncompliance, as well as to make decisions that are calibrated to achieving the goals set by the Council for that regime. Examples of such decisions are exemptions from sanctions measures or the application of sanctions measures to individuals or entities. The “technical dimension,” meaning requirements for national implementation and the way in which these are communicated to Member States and other relevant actors, is not well supported by the current structure of regime committees and their supporting secretariat. At the national implementation level, the sixteen complex political situations to which sanctions apply are distilled down to three or four regulations, each of which gives effect to one of the broadly uniform sanctions types the Council applies (e.g., travel bans, asset freezes, and arms embargoes). The authorities administering these regulations are concerned more with the consistent administration of