12 Publications 27. The well-established trend towards States lifting the veil of confidentiality and publishing CPT visit reports and government responses was confirmed once again during the period covered by this General Report. Over the last twelve months, reports on sixteen visits have been published by the Committee at the request of the governments concerned, in most cases together with the government’s response. At the time of writing, 201 of the 244 visit reports so far drawn up have been placed in the public domain. A State-byState table showing the current situation is set out in Appendix 4. The CPT particularly welcomes the decisions of the Georgian and Netherlands authorities to publish promptly the CPT reports on visits to their countries in 2007, without awaiting the drawing up of the government responses; this can only increase the impact of the Committee’s work. In contrast, the CPT regrets that some visit reports are only authorised for publication several years after the visit in question; clearly, this will greatly reduce interest in the documents concerned. 28. Reference should also be made to the decisions of the Finnish and Moldovan authorities to authorise publication of the preliminary observations made by the CPT’s delegations at the end of periodic visits to their countries in 2007. Such an approach will also serve to enhance the influence of the Committee’s activities and, in the case of Moldova, made it possible for the CPT delegation’s observations to be taken into account at a subsequent meeting in Chisinau on the prevention of torture organised by the Commission of the European Union. The preliminary observations made by the CPT’s delegation at the end of the periodic visit to Switzerland in 2007 have also been placed in the public domain, consequent upon a press release issued by the Swiss authorities immediately after the visit. CPT: 18TH GENERAL REPORT