A/71/44 received and assessed. Such communications reflect the analysis carried out by the Rapporteur, specify the pending issues and indicate a time frame for the reply. 50. The Rapporteur also expresses appreciation for the information submitted by national human rights institutions, human rights non-governmental organizations and civil society groups under the follow-up procedure. As at 13 May 2016, the Committee had received follow-up reports from such sources on the following States parties, in the order of receipt: Tajikistan, United States of America, Burundi, Japan, Ukraine, Switzerland, Uruguay, Kazakhstan, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) and Peru. 11 51. At the fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh sessions, the Rapporteur for follow-up to concluding observations submitted progress reports to the Committee on the procedure, as has been done at previous sessions. In his oral reports to the Committee, the Rapporteur indicated that, at its fifty-fifth session, the Committee had adopted guidelines for the follow-up procedure with the purpose of strengthening the procedure and aligning it with the follow-up procedures for other treaty bodies. The new guidelines include: the use of an assessment system for the Committee’s analysis of the States partiesʼ follow-up reports; an invitation to States parties to provide a plan for the implementation of all or some of the recommendations in the concluding observations; information on how to make recommendations clearer and easier to implement; and information on consolidating the role of civil society organizations and national human rights institutions in monitoring and supporting that implementation. The guidelines also strengthened the reminder procedure in cases of non-compliance with the follow-up and introduced the possibility of meetings between Committee members and States parties on follow-up issues. 52. The Rapporteur explained that the new guidelines had been implemented for followup for its fiftieth to fifty-third session, during which the Committee had reviewed the reports of 33 States parties and had received follow-up reports from 23 of them, for a reporting compliance rate of 69 per cent. Mr. Modvig stressed that the new guidelines made the lack of reporting visible in the concluding observations, which would hopefully contribute to increasing this compliance. 53. Mr. Modvig indicated that he had assessed information relating to 87 recommendations in the 23 follow-up reports. He found that in 52 per cent of cases thorough and extensive information had been provided on the recommendations; in 38 per cent of cases the information provided had addressed the recommendations to some degree; and the information provided in 10 per cent of the cases had failed to relate to the recommendations. For the first time, the follow-up reports had been assessed as to the degree to which specific follow-up recommendations had been implemented: full implementation had been found in 6 per cent of the cases; substantive steps had been taken in 24 per cent of the cases; initial implementation steps had been taken in 33 per cent of the cases; and no implementation in 29 per cent of the cases. In 8 per cent of the recommendations, the information had not allowed for an assessment. V. Activities of the Committee under article 20 of the Convention 54. In accordance with article 20 (1) of the Convention, if the Committee receives reliable information that appears to it to contain well-founded indications that torture is being systematically practised in the territory of a State party, the Committee shall invite that State party to cooperate in the examination of the information and, to that end, to submit observations with regard to the information concerned. _________________ 11 12 These submissions are also available from the web page for follow-up. GE.16-13567