[5 August 2015] Contents Chapter Page Organizational and other matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 A. States parties to the Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 B. Sessions and agendas of the Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 C. Membership, officers and mandates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 D. Participation of Committee members in other meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 E. Oral report of the Chair to the General Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 F. Activities of the Committee in connection with the Optional Protocol to the Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Joint statement on the occasion of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture and cooperation with the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 H. Informal meeting with the States parties to the Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 I. Participation of non-governmental organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 J. Participation of national human rights institutions and national preventive mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 K. Rapporteurs on reprisals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 L. Treaty body strengthening process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 M. Thirtieth anniversary of the Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Retreat on the working methods of the Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Submission of reports by States parties under article 19 of the Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 A. Invitation to submit periodic reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 B. Simplified reporting procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 C. Preliminary evaluation of the simplified reporting procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D. Reminders for overdue initial and periodic reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 E. Examination of measures taken by a State party in the absence of a report . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 III. Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 19 of the Convention . . . . . 14 IV. Follow-up to concluding observations on States parties’ reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 V. Activities of the Committee under article 20 of the Convention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 A. General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 B. Proceedings concerning the confidential inquiry on Lebanon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 I. G. N. II. 4/24 GE.15-13195