- 19 27. In accordance with the decision taken by the Committee at its fourth session,* country rapporteurs and alternate rapporteurs were designated for each of the reports considered. The list appears in annex VI to the present report. 28. In connection with its consideration of reports, the Committee also had before it the following documents: (a) General guidelines regarding the form and contents of initial reports to be submitted by States parties under article 19, paragraph 1, of the Convention (CAT/C/4/Rev.2); (b) General guidelines regarding the form and contents of periodic reports to be submitted by States parties under article 19 of the Convention (CAT/C/14/Rev.1). 29. In accordance with the decision taken by the Committee at its eleventh session,** the following sections, arranged on a country-by-country basis according to the sequence followed by the Committee in its consideration of the reports, contain references to the reports submitted by the States parties and to the summary records of the meetings of the Committee at which the reports were considered, as well as the text of conclusions and recommendations adopted by the Committee with respect to the States parties’ reports considered at its twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth sessions. Benin 30. The Committee considered the initial report of Benin (CAT/C/21/Add.3) at its 489th and 492nd meetings (CAT/C/SR.489 and 492), held on 15 and 16 November 2001, and adopted the following conclusions and recommendations. A. Introduction 31. The Committee welcomes the initial report of Benin, although it notes that the report, due on 10 April 1993, was submitted seven years late. The report was prepared in accordance with the guidelines regarding the form and contents of initial reports of States parties. The Committee nevertheless notes that it does not contain specific examples of the implementation of the Convention. However, the Committee notes, as the head of the delegation explained, that the report refers only to the so-called “revolutionary” period and a short period following the promulgation of the 1990 Constitution, thus preventing the Committee from evaluating the current situation with regard to the implementation of the Convention. 32. The Committee welcomes the information provided by the delegation of Benin and the frank, honest and constructive dialogue which took place. * Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-fifth session, Supplement No. 44 (A/45/44), paras. 14-16. ** Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-ninth session, Supplement No. 44 (A/49/44), paras. 12-13.