Report on follow-up to individual complaints to the1 Committee against Torture 153. The Rapporteur Mandate. At its twenty-eighth session, in May 2002, the Committee against Torture revised its rules of procedure and established the function of a Rapporteur for follow-up of decisions on complaints submitted under article 22. At its 527th meeting, on 16 May 2002, the Committee decided that the Rapporteur shall engage, inter alia, in the following activities: to monitor compliance with the Committee’s decisions by sending notes verbales to States parties inquiring about measures adopted pursuant to the Committee’s decisions; to recommend to the Committee appropriate action upon the receipt of responses from States parties, in situations of non-response, and upon the receipt henceforth of all letters from complainants concerning non-implementation of the Committee’s decisions; to meet with representatives of the permanent missions of States parties to encourage compliance and to determine whether advisory services or technical assistance by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights would be appropriate or desirable; to conduct, with the approval of the Committee, follow-up visits to States parties; to prepare periodic reports to the Committee on his/her activities. 154. From the date of the Rapporteur’s mandate the following paragraph will be added to a decision in which the Committee finds a violation(s) of the Convention: “The Committee urges the State party to ... [the remedy] and, in accordance with rule 112, paragraph 5, of its rules of procedure, to inform it, within 90 days from the date of the transmittal of this decision, of the steps taken in response to the decision expressed above.” 155. Statistical data. To date 2692 cases have been registered against the following countries: Argentina (3 - all inadmissible); Australia (20 - 1 violation; 7 no violation; 10 discontinued; 1 pending; 1 inadmissible); Austria (3 - 1 violation; 1 no violation; 1 inadmissible); Azerbaijan (1 - pending); Bulgaria (1 - pending); Canada (42 - 2 violations; 7 no violation; 8 pending; 12 discontinued; 10 inadmissible; 3 suspended); Denmark (9 - 2 inadmissible; 2 discontinued; 5 no violation); Ecuador (1 - discontinued); Finland (1 - no violation); France (30 - 2 violations; 1 pending; 2 no violation; 20 discontinued; 5 inadmissible); Germany (1 - no violation); Greece (1 - no violation); Hungary (1 - inadmissible); Netherlands (14 - 1 violation; 11 no violation; 1 inadmissible; 1 discontinued); Norway (4 - 2 inadmissible; 2 pending); Russian Federation (1 - discontinued); Senegal (1 - pending); Serbia and Montenegro (7 - 4 violations; 3 pending); Spain (8 - 2 violations; 1 no violation; 5 inadmissible); Sweden (59 - 11 violations; 11 pending; 9 inadmissible; 8 discontinued; 20 no violation); Switzerland (52 - 3 violations; 12 pending; 5 inadmissible; 22 no violation; 10 discontinued); Tunisia (7 - 4 violations; 1 inadmissible; 1 discontinued; 1 pending); Turkey (1 - inadmissible); Venezuela (1 - violation). By the end of the thirty-fourth session, the Committee had adopted final decisions on the merits with respect to 111 complaints and found violations of the Convention in 32 of them (see table below); interim measures were granted in 21 cases and acceded to by the States parties in 18; follow-up information was provided by the State party in 13 cases (1 submission in a case in which the Committee had not found a violation of the Convention); it had discontinued 69 complaints and declared 47 inadmissible. Overall, 56 complaints remained pending for consideration. 57