10 Publications and media relations 24. Authorisation by States of the publication of CPT visit reports remains the norm, and this authorisation now tends to be given more quickly than in the past. During the last twelve months, reports on thirteen visits have been published by the Committee, at the request of the governments concerned. These publications include, for the first time, reports on visits to Azerbaijan and Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the time of writing, 146 of the 187 visit reports so far drawn up have been placed in the public domain. A State-by-State table showing the current situation is set out in Appendix 4. 25. Reference has been made in previous General Reports to the “information pack”, containing various materials describing the CPT’s modus operandi and the standards it has developed. Further translations and updates of the pack have been produced during the last twelve months; it is currently available in seventeen languages. The pack is posted in all of those languages on the CPT’s website, and printed copies can be obtained from the Committee’s Secretariat. Further, a new edition of the CD-ROM containing the whole of the CPT’s website will be issued in October 2005. 26. With a view to assisting the media when reporting on the CPT’s work, a videokit has been produced by the Council of Europe’s Directorate of Communication and Research (DCR). Primarily aimed at TV journalists, it contains a series of reconstructions of events linked to the Committee’s activities. Copies of the videokit in BETA format are available from the DCR; copies in VHS and DVD format (suitable for human rights training) can be obtained from the CPT’s Secretariat. CPT: 15TH GENERAL REPORT

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