A/73/44 of States parties under article 19 of the Convention.4 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 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). 42. 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 the period covered by the present annual report, Mr. Hani continued to fill that post. 43. From May 2003 to the end of the sixty-third session, in May 2018, the Committee reviewed 226 reports from States parties for which it identified follow-up recommendations. Of the 202 follow-up reports that had been due by 18 May 2017, at the time of the adoption of the present report, 149 had been received by the Committee, for a 74 per cent overall response rate. The status of the follow-up is compiled in a chart maintained on the web page of the Committee.5 Additional information, including submissions by States parties, communications sent by the Rapporteur for follow-up, State party responses and reports from national human rights institutions, non-governmental organizations and other civil society actors, are posted on that web page. 44. As at 18 May 2018, the following States had not yet supplied follow-up information that had fallen due:6 Albania (forty-eighth session), Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (fiftieth), Burkina Faso (fifty-first), Cambodia (forty-fifth), Cabo Verde (fifty-ninth), Chad (forty-second), Congo (fifty-fourth), Costa Rica (fortieth), Cuba (forty-eighth), Djibouti (forty-seventh), El Salvador (forty-third), Ethiopia (forty-fifth), Gabon (forty-ninth), Ghana (forty-sixth), Guinea (fifty-second), Indonesia (fortieth), Iraq (fifty-fifth), Jordan (fiftysixth), Kyrgyzstan (fifty-first), Luxembourg (fifty-fourth), Madagascar (forty-seventh), Mauritania (fiftieth), Mongolia (fifty-eighth), Mozambique (fifty-first), Namibia (fiftyninth), Nicaragua (forty-second), Philippines (fifty-seventh), Sierra Leone (fifty-second), Sri Lanka (fifty-ninth), Syrian Arab Republic (forty-eighth), Uganda (thirty-fourth), Yemen (forty-fourth), Zambia (fortieth) and Holy See (fifty-second). 45. The Rapporteur sends reminders requesting the outstanding information to each State party for which follow-up information is due, but has not yet been submitted. During the period under review, the Rapporteur sent reminders to Israel and the Philippines.7 46. From 13 May 2017 to 18 May 2018, follow-up reports were received from the following States parties,8 in the order of receipt: Tunisia (CAT/C/TUN/CO/3/Add.1, 13 May 2017); Honduras (CAT/C/HND/CO/2/Add.1, 14 August 2017); Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (CAT/C/VEN/CO/3-4/Add.1, 17 August 2017); Israel (CAT/C/ISR/CO/5/Add.1, 20 September 2017); Monaco (CAT/C/MCO/CO/6/Add.1, 7 December 2017); Finland (CAT/C/FIN/CO/7/Add.1, 7 December 2017); Turkmenistan (CAT/C/TKM/CO/2/Add.1, 13 December 2017); Armenia (CAT/C/ARM/4/Add.1, 22 December 2017); Ecuador (CAT/C/ECU/CO/7/Add.1, 5 January 2018); Bahrain (CAT/C/BHR/CO/2-3/Add.1, 11 May 2018); and Argentina (CAT/C/ARG/CO/5-6/Add.1, 11 May 2018). 47. The Rapporteur expresses appreciation for the information provided by those States parties regarding measures taken to implement their obligations under the Convention. He assesses the responses received as to whether all the issues identified by the Committee for follow-up have been addressed by the State party and whether the information provided responds to the Committee’s concerns and recommendations. The Rapporteur 4 5 6 7 8 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 44 (A/58/44), para. 12. In 2010, the Committee established a separate web page for follow-up: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/FollowUp.aspx?Treaty=CAT&Lang=en. An overview of the follow-up procedure since 2003 can be found at the same web page. States parties that did not supply follow-up information prior to the submission of their next periodic report are not included in the list. Communications sent by the Rapporteur for follow-up to concluding observations are available from the web page for follow-up. Follow-up reports submitted by States parties are available from the web page for follow-up. 9