A/70/44 concerns a State party to the Convention that has not recognized the Comm ittee’s competence under article 22. 65. In accordance with rule 104, paragraph 1, of its rules of procedure, the Committee established the post of the Rapporteur on new complaints and interim measures, which is currently held by Satyabhoosun Gupt Domah. 66. Complaints under article 22 of the Convention are considered in closed meetings. All documents relating to the work of the Committee under article 22, that is, submissions from the parties and other working documents of the Committee, are confidential. 67. The Committee decides on a complaint in the light of all information made available to it by the parties. The findings of the Committee are communicated to the parties and are made available to the public. The text of the Committee ’s decisions declaring complaints inadmissible are also made public, without disclosing the identity of the complainant, but identifying the State party concerned. B. Interim measures of protection 68. Complainants frequently request preventive protection, particularly in cases concerning imminent expulsion or extradition, where they allege a violation of article 3 of the Convention. Pursuant to rule 114, paragraph 1, of its rules of procedure, at any time after the receipt of a complaint, the Committee, through its Rappor teur on new complaints and interim measures, may transmit to the State party concerned a request that it take such interim measures as the Committee considers necessary to avoid irreparable damage to the victim(s) of the alleged violation(s). The State par ty shall be informed that such a request does not imply a determination of the admissibility or the merits of the complaint. During the reporting period, requests for interim measures of protection were received in 62 complaints, of which 48 were granted by the Rapporteur, who regularly monitors compliance with the Committee ’s requests for interim measures. C. Progress of work 69. At the time of adoption of the present report the Committee had registered, since 1989, 679 complaints concerning 36 States parties. 15 Of those, 198 complaints had been discontinued and 68 had been declared inadmissible. The Committee had adopted final decisions on the merits on 265 complaints and found violations of the Convention in 101 of them. A total of 148 complaints were pending consideration. All of the Committee’s decisions on merits, as well as those declaring a complaint inadmissible, can be found in the treaty body case law database (http://juris.ohchr.org/); at the OHCHR website, in the tables of jurisprudence (www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CAT/Pages/Jurisprudence.aspx) and under “Human rights bodies/Treaty body database” (www.ohchr.org); and from the Official Document System of the United Nations (http://documents.un.org). 70. At its fifty-third session, the Committee adopted decisions on the merits in respect of communications No. 321/2007, Mopongo and others v. Morocco; No. 450/2011, Fadel v. Switzerland; No. 458/2011, X. v. Denmark; No. 470/2011, X. v. Switzerland; No. 473/2011, Khademi et al. v. Switzerland; No. 482/2011, R.S. et al. v. Switzerland; No. 489/2012, Tahmuresi v. Switzerland; No. 492/2012, Azizi v. __________________ 15 GE.15-13195 The complaints examined by the Committee in relation to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as well as to Serbia and Montenegro, are attributed to Serbia for statistical purposes. 19/24