A/70/44 (a) To offer the simplified reporting procedure to States parties with long overdue initial reports, to be applied to two States per year, bearing in mind the capacity of the secretariat; (b) To adopt the guidance note for States parties on the constructive dialogue with the human rights bodies (A/69/285, annex I), put forward at the twenty-sixth meeting of the Chairs, while stressing that the note provides a general framework that should not contradict the Committee’s specificities regarding the dialogue with States parties. Committee specificities will be provided orally by the secretariat during its technical briefings to States parties; (c) To establish a working group to update the reporting guidelines on initial and periodic reports, if needed; (d) To establish a working group to contribute to a substantive evaluation of the simplified reporting procedure, including to examine the issue of up dating the lists of issues prior to reporting for which no responses have been received in two years and to improve lists of issues prior to reporting; (e) To establish a working group on the follow-up to concluding observations to prepare a note on follow-up to concluding observations and discuss the use of indicators; (f) To establish a working group to present a document on how to improve the contribution and participation of national human rights institutions, national preventive mechanisms and NGOs in Committee sessions; (g) To issue a memorandum on the practical modalities and criteria for deciding to undertake visits to follow up on inquiry missions; (h) To establish a working group on individual complaints so as to enable the Committee to fully apprehend the internal processes of the individual complaints procedure and consider any need to revise the rules of procedures; (i) To present options for the drafting of a new general comment; (j) To request the rapporteurs on reprisals to prepare a doc ument on concrete actions against reprisals. II. Submission of reports by States parties under article 19 of the Convention 27. During the period covered by the present report, 13 reports from States parties under article 19 of the Convention were submitted to the Secretary-General. Second periodic reports were submitted by Honduras, Mongolia and Saudi Arabia. Third periodic reports were submitted by Jordan, the Philippines and Tunisia. Fourth periodic reports were submitted by Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein and Turkey. A fifth periodic report was submitted by Israel. A sixth periodic report was submitted by Austria. A combined sixth and seventh periodic report was submitted by Denmark. A seventh periodic report was submitted by France. 28. As at 15 May 2015, the Committee had received a total of 377 reports and had examined 359; there were 28 States parties with overdue initial reports and 37 States parties with overdue periodic reports (see the status of reports on the Committee web page). GE.15-13195 11/24