49. The Committee requests that the State party provide in its next periodic report detailed statistical data, disaggregated by crime, ethnicity and gender, on complaints relating to torture and ill-treatment allegedly committed by law enforcement officials and on the related investigations, prosecutions, and penal and disciplinary sentences. Information is further requested on any compensation and rehabilitation provided to the victims. 50. The Committee encourages the State party to consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture. 51. The State party is encouraged to disseminate widely the reports submitted by Greece to the Committee and the conclusions and recommendations of the Committee, in appropriate languages, through official websites, the media and NGOs. 52. The Committee requests the State party to provide, within one year, information on its response to the Committee’s recommendations contained in paragraph 48, subparagraphs (e), (h), (i), (j), (k) and (m) above. 53. The State party is invited to submit its next periodic report, which will be considered as the combined fifth and sixth report, by 4 November 2009, the due date of the sixth periodic report. CANADA 54. The Committee considered the fourth and fifth periodic reports of Canada (CAT/C/55/Add.8 and CAT/C/81/Add.3, respectively) at its 643rd and 646th meetings (CAT/C/SR.643 and 646 and Add.1), held on 4 and 6 May 2005, and adopted, at its 658th meeting (CAT/C/SR.658), the following conclusions and recommendations. A. Introduction 55. The fourth periodic report of Canada was due on 23 July 2000 and was submitted on 20 August 2002, while the fifth periodic report was due on 23 July 2004 and was submitted on 11 October 2004, each in accordance with the Committee’s reporting guidelines. The Committee welcomes the open and inclusive participation in the reporting process of institutions and NGOs concerned with the protection of human rights, as well as the inclusion in the reports of diverging views of civil society. B. Positive aspects 56. The Committee notes: (a) The definition of torture in the Canadian Criminal Code that is in accordance with the definition contained in article 1 of the Convention and the exclusion in the Criminal Code of the defences of superior orders or exceptional circumstances, including in armed conflict, as well as the inadmissibility of evidence obtained by torture; (b) The direct application of the criminal norms cited in subparagraph (a) above to the State party’s military personnel wherever they are located, by means of the National Defence Act; 25