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A/71/755 6/15 17-00808 the United Nations policy on information sensitivity, classification and handling (ST/SGB/2007/6). 29. The Mechanism will adopt procedures and methods of work regarding chain of custody issues, data protection, information management, case management and archiving and security issues in accordance with international criminal law standards. Relationship with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic 30. The Mechanism is complementary to the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic. Accordingly, while the Commission focuses on directly collecting information, publicly reporting recent broad patterns of violations, abuses and emblematic incidents and making recommendations, notably to Member States, the Mechanism primarily builds on the information collected by others, in particular the Commission, by collecting, consolidating, preserving and analysing evidence and prepares files to facilitate and expedite fair and independent criminal proceedings in national, regional or international courts or tribunals. 31. The Mechanism and the Commission have closely related but different mandates. Similarities between the two entities include their territorial and temporal scope and aspects of their subject matter. The Commission broadly considers human rights violations and abuses and violations of international law, including those amounting to crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Mechanism will assist in the investigation and prosecution of persons responsible for the most serious crimes under international law. Other anticipated differences between the two entities include variances in their methodologies and standards. The Mechanism will adopt procedures and methods of work regulating the provision of information to it from the Commission. 32. The Mechanism has an explicit nexus to criminal investigations, prosecutions, proceedings and trials that is not within the mandate of the Commission. Specifically, the Mechanism is required to prepare files to assist in the investigation and prosecution of the persons responsible and to establish the connection between crime-based evidence and the persons responsible, directly or indirectly, for such alleged crimes, focusing in particular on linkage evidence and evidence pertaining to mens rea and to specific modes of criminal liability. In essence, the Mechanism has a quasi-prosecutorial function that is beyond the scope of the Commission’s mandate. Seat of the Mechanism 33. The Mechanism will be located in Geneva, the most appropriate geographical location considering the terms of resolution 71/248, by which it was established that the Mechanism would closely cooperate with the Commission in all aspects of its work and the Secretary-General was requested to undertake the steps, measures and arrangements necessary for the speedy establishment and full functioning of the Mechanism in coordination with the Commission