A/69/44 more work than the traditional lists of issues following the submission of a State party’s report. This is particularly significant in a Committee with such a small membership. 38. Further to its previous decision to continue with this procedure for a new four-year reporting cycle, 4 the Committee decided, at its fifty-second session, to refer to this procedure as the simplified reporting procedure (lists of issues prior to reporting) and to continue to invite States parties to report under this procedure for their next periodic report. The Committee also sent reminders to States parties to submit their next periodic report under this procedure, in cases where the previous invitation had not been responded to. 39. At its fifty-first session, the Committee adopted lists of issues prior to reporting with regard to the States parties that had accepted the invitation to submit their next report, due in 2015, under this procedure: Belarus, Germany and Ireland. Those lists of issues prior to reporting were transmitted to the respective State parties. 40. At its fifty-second session, the Committee adopted lists of issues prior to reporting with regard to States parties that accepted the invitation to submit their next report, due in 2016, under this procedure: Canada, the Czech Republic, Greece, Mexico, Norway, Peru and the Russian Federation. The lists of issues prior to reporting were submitted to the respective State parties. Between the end of the fifty-first session and the end of the period under review, Armenia, Cameroon, Gabon, Qatar, Senegal and Togo accepted to report under the simplified reporting procedure. C. Preliminary evaluation of the optional reporting procedure/simplified reporting procedure 41. At its fifty-first and fifty-second sessions, the Committee discussed its optional reporting procedure on the basis of the report it requested the secretariat to prepare5 on the status of the optional reporting procedure (CAT/C/47/2), which included information on new developments relating to the procedure and possible options for its revision. The Committee also had before it the note by the secretariat on the simplified reporting procedure (HRI/MC/2014/4) issued following the adoption by the General Assembly of resolution 68/268. 42. At its fifty-second session, the Committee decided that further evaluation would be conducted during its two-day retreat, which would take place at its next session. However, the fact that only 5 of the 125 States parties that are at the periodic reporting stage declined to report under it indicates the success of this procedure; 85 have expressly accepted to report under it and the remaining 35 have not yet answered or have not yet been invited to report under it. In addition, the fact that other treaty bodies have also adopted, or are considering adopting, this procedure indicates its clear added value for the reporting system. 43. The updated information relating to the procedure is available from a dedicated webpage (www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CAT/Pages/ReportingProcedures.aspx). 4 5 GE.14-12596 Ibid., para. 36. Ibid., para. 38. 9