(3) To draw up the draft report, the secretariat may, as appropriate, also obtain subsequent
information from the facility visited.
(4) The draft report shall be forwarded to the participating members of the Commission of the
Länder for their consent.
(5) The Chairperson of the Commission of the Länder shall then forward the visit report to the
competent Ministry with a request for observations. The facility visited shall also receive a
duplicate of the report.
Section 10 Annual Report
(1) The Commission shall publish an Annual Report of its activities drawn up together with
the Federal Agency for the Prevention of Torture. This Report shall be forwarded to the German Bundestag and the Land Parliaments, the Land Governments and the Federal Government. The Annual Report shall contain both the outcome of the visits and the reactions of the
Ministries regarding the implementation of the recommendations.
(2) The Commission of the Länder and the Federal Agency shall draft their segments of the
Report, each on its own responsibility. The coordination of the contributions, as well as all
and any activities in connection with the publication, shall be incumbent on an editorial team
determined at the beginning of each period under review.
III. Confidentiality
Section 11 Respect for confidentiality and data protection
(1) The members of the Commission of the Länder and the staff members of the secretariat
shall be obliged to maintain silence with regard to confidential information which they receive
during their activities. This obligation shall also last beyond the active membership of the
Commission of the Länder.
(2) Documents containing personal and confidential data shall be kept securely and not
made accessible to third parties.
(3) Personal data may only be passed on with the explicit consent of the person in question.
Section 12 Amendments and entry into force
(1) These rules of procedure shall come into force by resolution of the qualified majority of
the statutory number of members of the Commission of the Länder.
(2) Amendments of the rules of procedure shall require a qualified majority of the statutory
number of members of the Commission of the Länder.
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