A/75/44 Concluding observations Party Country rapporteurs Report Burkina Faso Sébastien Touzé Claude Heller Second periodic report (CAT/C/BFA/2) CAT/C/BFA/CO/2 Cyprus Jens Modvig Abdelwahab Hani Fifth periodic report (CAT/C/CYP/5) CAT/C/CYP/CO/5 Latvia Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón Ana Racu Sixth periodic report (CAT/C/LVA/6) CAT/C/LVA/CO/6 Niger Abdelwahab Hani Essadia Belmir Initial report (CAT/C/NER/1) CAT/C/NER/CO/1 Portugal Claude Heller Seventh periodic report Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov (CAT/C/PRT/7) CAT/C/PRT/CO/7 Uzbekistan Felice Gaer Diego Rodríguez-Pinzón CAT/C/UZB/CO/5 Fifth periodic report (CAT/C/UZB/5) 39. The reports of Cuba (CAT/C/CUB/3), Kenya (CAT/C/KEN/3), Iceland (CAT/C/ISL/4), Montenegro (CAT/C/MNE/3), United Arab Emirates (CAT/C/ARE/1) and Uruguay (CAT/C/URY/4), initially scheduled for the sixty-ninth session, were not considered during the period under review due to the COVID-19 situation. They are available from the Official Document System of the United Nations (http://documents.un.org). 40. In accordance with rule 68 of the Committee’s rules of procedure, representatives of each reporting State were invited to attend the meetings of the Committee when their report was examined. All of the States parties whose reports were considered sent representatives to participate in the examination of their respective reports. The Committee expressed its appreciation for that in its concluding observations. 41. Two country rapporteurs were designated by the Committee for each of the reports considered, as reflected in the tables above. IV. Follow-up to concluding observations on States parties’ reports 42. At its thirtieth session, in May 2003, the Committee developed a procedure to provide for follow-up subsequent to the adoption of the concluding observations on reports of States parties under article 19 of the Convention (A/58/44, para. 12). The Committee has presented information in each of its annual reports thereafter, outlining its experience in receiving information on follow-up measures taken by States parties, including substantive trends and further modifications that it has made in the procedure. A more detailed description of the procedure can be found in the guidelines for follow-up to concluding observations, adopted by the Committee at its fifty-fifth session (CAT/C/55/3). 43. In accordance with its rules of procedure, the Committee established the post of Rapporteur for follow-up to concluding observations under article 19 of the Convention. Over most of the period covered by the present annual report, Abdelwahab Hani continued to fill that post. In view of Mr. Hani’s end of term on 31 December 2019, Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov was appointed to serve as the Rapporteur for follow-up to concluding observations a.i. until the Committee’s sixty-ninth session. 44. From May 2003 to the end of period under review, the Committee had reviewed 257 reports from States parties for which it had identified follow-up recommendations. Of the 241 follow-up reports that had been due by 15 May 2020, 176 had been received by the Committee, for an overall response rate of 73 per cent. The status of the follow-up is compiled in a chart maintained on the web page of the Committee.4 Additional information, including 4 8 In 2010, the Committee established a separate web page for follow-up: https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/ _layouts/15/TreatyBodyExternal/FollowUp.aspx?Treaty=CAT&Lang=en. An overview of the followup procedure since 2003 can be found at the same web page.