A/66/44 IV. Follow-up to concluding observations on States parties’ reports 62. In this chapter, the Committee updates its findings and activities that constitute follow-up to concluding observations adopted under article 19 of the Convention. Information regarding the follow-up responses by States parties, and the activities of the Rapporteur for follow-up to concluding observations under article 19 of the Convention, including the Rapporteur’s views on the results of this procedure, are presented below. This information is updated through 3 June 2011, the end of the Committee’s forty-sixth session. 63. In chapter IV of its annual report for 2005–20065 the Committee described the framework that it had developed to provide for follow-up subsequent to the adoption of the concluding observations on States parties reports submitted under article 19 of the Convention. In that report and each year thereafter, the Committee has presented information on its experience in receiving information on follow-up measures taken by States parties since the initiation of the procedure in May 2003. 64. In accordance with its rules of procedure, the Committee established the post of Rapporteur for follow-up to concluding observations under article 19 of the Convention and appointed Ms. Felice Gaer to that position. At the forty-fifth and forty-sixth sessions (November 2010 and May–June 2011, respectively) the Rapporteur presented progress reports to the Committee on the results of the procedure. 65. At the conclusion of the Committee’s review of each State party report, the Committee identifies concerns and recommends specific measures to prevent acts of torture and ill-treatment. Thereby, the Committee assists States parties in identifying effective legislative, judicial, administrative and other measures to bring their laws and practice into full compliance with the obligations set forth in the Convention. 66. In accordance with the procedure established for its follow-up procedure, the Committee has identified a number of its recommendations to each State party as requiring additional information within one year. Such follow-up recommendations are identified because they are serious, protective and are considered able to be accomplished within one year. The States parties are asked to provide information within one year on the measures taken to give effect to the follow-up recommendations. In the concluding observations on each State party report, the recommendations requiring follow-up within one year are specifically identified in a paragraph at the end of each set of concluding observations. 67. Since the procedure was established at the thirtieth session in May 2003, through the end of the forty-sixth session in June 2011, the Committee has reviewed 109 reports from States parties for which it has identified follow-up recommendations. Of the 95 States party follow-up reports that were due by May 2011, at the time of the adoption of the present report, 67 had been received by the Committee. As of 3 June 2011, 27 States had not yet supplied follow-up information that had fallen due: Austria, Benin, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Chile, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of the Congo, El Salvador, France, Honduras, Indonesia, Jordan, Luxembourg, Nicaragua, Peru, Republic of Moldova (initial report, thirtieth session), Switzerland, South Africa, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Togo, Uganda, Yemen and Zambia. As can be seen, the 28 States parties that did not submit any information under the follow-up procedure as of 3 June 2011 came from all world regions. 5 GE.11-45568 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 44 (A/61/44). 137