21 - or, completing a feasibility study. The deadline for granting subsidies, whether unilaterally or subject to an agreement, concerning municipalities or joint local authority bodies meeting the aforementioned requirements, shall be extended by two years.” THE LAW FIRST PART: PRELIMINARY ISSUES i. Individual aspects of the complaint 52. ATD Fourth World illustrates its complaint with individual accounts of persons or families in great distress, in particular families from Herblay (Val d’Oise) and Kaltenhouse (Bas-Rhin), coupled with eyewitness accounts from Lille, Reims, Saint-Ouen l’Aumône, Pézenas and Strasbourg. Some of these individuals and families have been homeless for decades and have experienced considerable difficulty securing recognition of their fundamental rights, particularly those embodied in the revised Charter. In this context, the Committee was particularly attentive to the evidence given by Mrs Cécile Reinhardt at the public hearing. 53. The Committee attaches great importance to this information, which highlights the difficulties faced by all those concerned, as well as the value of the activities undertaken by ATD Fourth World. It hopes that rapid solutions will be found that are fully consistent with the dignity of each individual concerned. However, it must stress that the complaints procedure is, by its very nature, a collective one that entails examination of general situations. The Committee therefore has no authority to entertain individual situations nor to make any assessment or impose measures on the Government. ii. The state of domestic law at the time of adoption of the Committee’s decision 54. As to the new law on the enforceable right to housing adopted in France in 2007 (“DALO Act”), the Committee recalls that within the scope of the collective complaints procedure it bases its assessment of conformity with the Charter on the domestic law and practice applicable on the date of the decision on the merits of the complaint (European Council of Police Trade Unions v. Portugal, Complaint No. 11/2001, decision on the merits of 21 May 2001). 55. In the present case, given that the measures foreseen in the new Act will enter into force on 1 December 2008 (for certain categories of persons) and on 1 January 2012 (for other categories of persons), the Committee will only take into account the currently applicable regulations on housing and refrain from assessing the measures contained in the new Act.