The functions of the commission are as set out in Articles 4 to 7 of the Agreement. Article 4 provides that the commission shall monitor any continuing activity by paramilitary groups and assess whether the leaderships of these organisations are directing or seeking to prevent this activity and report to the two Governments on its findings. Article 5 provides that the commission monitors the British Government's adherence to its agreed programme of security normalisation in Northern Ireland and report its findings to the two Governments. There is also a mechanism for the commission to examine normalisation in the absence of an agreed programme. Article 6 provides that the commission may consider a claim by any party in the Northern Ireland Assembly that a Minister or Assembly party is not committed to exclusively peaceful and democratic means or that a Minister or party is failing to observe any other terms of the pledge of office. In so far as a claim relates to the operation of the institutional arrangements under strand one of the multi-party Agreement, it shall be considered by those commissioners solely appointed by the British Government and any findings reported to the British Government only. Article 7 states that the commission shall recommend any remedial measures considered necessary.