E/C.12/SRB/CO/2 Personal documentation 13. While noting the recent amendments to facilitate birth and residence registration, the Committee is concerned that a number of refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons remain without personal identity documents, which limits their enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights. The Committee is also concerned that many internally displaced Roma living in informal settlements without a registered residence did not have their permanent address re-registered from their last place of permanent residence (arts. 2, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 14). The Committee recommends that the State party ensure effective access by refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons, in particular Roma without a registered residence who live in informal settlements, to procedures for birth and residence registration in order to facilitate access to personal documents, including birth certificates, identity cards and work booklets. In the meantime, those affected should have access to economic, social and cultural rights. Asylum seekers, refugees and internally displaced persons 14. While noting the functioning of the Asylum Office, the Committee is concerned at the lack of a fair and efficient asylum procedure, as only a very few asylum seekers in Serbia have been recognized as refugees even though the majority of them come from refugee producing countries. Noting further the functioning of the Serbian Commissioner for Refugees and Migration, the Committee is concerned that refugees and internally displaced persons do not have access to comprehensive integration programmes. The Committee is also concerned at the limited capacities of social welfare services in places where asylum centres are located and the insufficient reception capacities for asylum seekers (arts. 2, 9 and 11). The Committee recommends that the State party: (a) Enact necessary by-laws and adopt other measures, including training for migration officers, as well as safeguards for the independence of the Asylum Office, to ensure the full implementation of the Law on Asylum of 2007 and to guarantee a fair and efficient asylum procedure, in particular protection against refoulement; (b) Establish a functional local integration mechanism for refugees recognized under the Law on Asylum, as well as for internally displaced persons, in areas such as education, social assistance, language and vocational trainings and housing, and adopt and implement in that regard a national strategy for resolving problems of refugees and internally displaced persons beyond 2014, together with an action plan which should include clear time frames, as well as an adequate budget; (c) Increase the capacities of social welfare services in places where asylum centres are located, in order to better respond to the needs of asylum seekers and recognized refugees; (d) Improve the existing reception capacities for asylum seekers in order to be able to respond to fluctuations in the number of asylum applications and the actual length of the asylum procedure. National machinery for gender equality 15. The Committee is concerned about the limited effectiveness and the lack of sufficient human and financial resources of the Gender Equality Directorate and the Gender Equality Council, which has an impact on the implementation of the Law on Gender Equality and the National Strategy for the Improvement of the Status of Women and the 5