A/76/44 situation of Nigeria – was postponed to 2021. The reports of Cuba (CAT/C/CUB/3), Kenya (CAT/C/KEN/3), Iceland (CAT/C/ISL/4), Montenegro (CAT/C/MNE/3), the United Arab Emirates (CAT/C/ARE/1) and Uruguay (CAT/C/URY/4), initially scheduled for the seventieth session, were not considered during the period under review due to the COVID19 situation. The reports are available from the Official Document System of the United Nations.8 IV. Follow-up to concluding observations on States parties’ reports 32. At its thirtieth session, in May 2003, the Committee developed a procedure to provide for follow-up subsequent to the adoption of the concluding observations on reports of States parties under article 19 of the Convention (A/58/44, para. 12). The Committee has presented information in each of its annual reports thereafter, outlining its experience in receiving information on follow-up measures taken by States parties, including substantive trends and further modifications that it has made in the procedure. A more detailed description of the procedure can be found in the guidelines for follow-up to concluding observations, adopted by the Committee at its fifty-fifth session (CAT/C/55/3). 33. In accordance with its rules of procedure, the Committee established the post of Rapporteur for follow-up to concluding observations under article 19 of the Convention. During the period covered by the present report, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov continued to serve as the Rapporteur for follow-up to concluding observations a.i. 34. From May 2003 to the end of the period under review, the Committee had reviewed 256 reports from States parties for which it had identified follow-up recommendations. As at 28 April 2021, 193 follow-up reports had been received by the Committee, for an overall response rate of 75.4 per cent. The status of the follow-up is compiled in a chart maintained on the web page of the Committee.9 Additional information, including submissions by States parties, communications sent by the Rapporteur for follow-up, State party responses and reports from national human rights institutions, NGOs and other civil society actors, are posted on that web page. 35. As at 28 April 2021, the following States had not yet supplied follow-up information that had fallen due: 10 Albania (forty-eighth session), Antigua and Barbuda (sixty-first), Bangladesh (sixty-seventh), Benin (sixty-sixth), Burkina Faso (sixty-eighth), Cabo Verde (fifty-ninth), Cambodia (forty-fifth), Congo (fifty-fourth), Djibouti (forty-seventh), Gabon (forty-ninth), Ghana (forty-sixth), Guinea (fifty-second), Holy See (fifty-second), Indonesia (fortieth), Madagascar (forty-seventh), Mozambique (fifty-first), Namibia (fifty-ninth), Niger (sixty-eighth), Peru (sixty-fifth), Philippines (fifty-seventh), Rwanda (sixty-second), Seychelles (sixty-fourth), Sierra Leone (fifty-second), Sri Lanka (fifty-ninth), Syrian Arab Republic (forty-eighth), Tajikistan (sixty-third), Togo (sixty-seventh), Yemen (forty-fourth) and Zambia (fortieth). 36. The Rapporteur sent reminders, requesting the outstanding information, to each State party for which follow-up information was due but had not yet been submitted. During the period under review, such reminders were sent in letters dated 11 August 2020 to Benin, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; in a letter dated 6 November 2020 to Belarus; in letters dated 7 December 2020 to Bangladesh and Togo; and in letters dated 23 March 2021 to Burkina Faso and the Niger.11 8 9 10 11 See http://documents.un.org. In 2010, the Committee established a separate web page for follow-up: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/FollowUp.aspx?Treaty=CAT&Lang=en. An overview of the follow-up procedure since 2003 can be found at the same web page. States parties that did not supply follow-up information prior to the submission of their next periodic report are not included in the list. Communications sent by the Rapporteur for follow-up to concluding observations are available from the web page for follow-up. 7