At the end of each visit, the teams of inspectors each write their draft report or initial report,
which, according to the provisions of Article 31 of the rules and regulations of the CGLPL48 “is
submitted to the Contrôleur général, who then sends it to the head of the institution, in order to
obtain the latter’s comments on the facts ascertained during the visit. Except in case of special
circumstances and subject to the cases of urgency mentioned in the second paragraph of Article 9
of the Law dated 30 October 2007, the head of the institution is given one month to reply. In the
absence of a response within this deadline, the Contrôleur général may commence drafting the
final report.” This report, which is not definitive, is subject to rules of professional privilege which
are binding upon all members of the CGLPL with regard to the facts, acts and information of
which they have knowledge.
And Article 32 of the same rules and regulations states that “after receipt of the comments
of the head of the institution or in the absence of a reply from the latter, the head of the assignment
once again calls together the inspectors having conducted the visit, in order to modify the report if
necessary and draft the conclusions or recommendations which accompany the final report,
referred to as the “visit report” [which] is sent by the Contrôleur général to the appropriate
ministers having competence to deal with the facts ascertained and recommendations contained
therein. In accordance with the above-mentioned Article 9, deadline of between five weeks and
two months, except in case of urgency, is fixed for responses from ministers.”
Once all of the ministers concerned have made their observations, these visit reports are
then published on the CGLPL website, which was brought into production in April 2009.
In addition the Contrôleur général may decide to publish specific recommendations
concerning one or several institutions as well as overall assessments on transverse issues in the
Journal Officiel de la République Française when he considers that the facts ascertained infringe or are
liable to infringe one or several fundamental rights.
48
Internal rules and regulations established in application of Article 7 of Decree no. 2008-246 dated 12 March 2008.
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