-8d. Follow-up of visits 13. At present the CPT is transmitting its report to the State Party concerned some nine months after a periodic visit. This period is too long. The Committee remains firmly committed to sending visit reports not later than six months after the end of a visit. The present situation is due largely to a bottleneck of work at the level of the Committee's Secretariat. The CPT is confident that means will be found of resolving this problem (cf. also paragraphs 26 and 27). 14. However, the CPT would recall that a visiting delegation invariably meets the national authorities at the end of its visit. Consequently, those authorities are informed immediately of any issue of particular concern. 15. The process of ongoing dialogue with States visited has continued in a broadly satisfactory manner throughout 1992. The interim and follow-up reports requested by the CPT are being forwarded by the States concerned, normally within the time-limits requested by the Committee. Some of the reports are very substantial in nature and all of them show that the CPT's recommendations and other advice are being examined seriously. 16. During 1992, two more of the CPT's reports - on the visits to Malta in 1990 and to Sweden in 1991 - have been published, pursuant to Article 11 (2) of the Convention. Subsequently, the Swedish authorities also agreed to the publication of their interim report in response to the CPT's report4. The CPT can only reiterate its appreciation of the attitude adopted by those States which have agreed to the publication of the Committee's reports. 4 Further, the CPT's reports on its visits to France and Switzerland in 1991 were published in January 1993, together with the interim reports of the French and Swiss authorities, and the report on the visit to Finland in 1992 was published in April 1993. To date, eight CPT reports have been published: in alphabetical order, on the visits to Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Malta, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In addition, the follow-up reports of the Swedish and United Kingdom authorities in response to the CPT's visit reports were published, respectively, in March and April 1993.