E/CN.4/2004/56/Add.3 page 17 93. The Special Rapporteur has been informed of the existence of an initiative in this regard by the National Department of Prisons (Departamento Penitenciário Nacional, DEPEN). He would appreciate receiving information on its impact. 94. Recommendation (bb) stated: The Government should give serious and positive consideration to accepting the right of individual petition to the Committee against Torture, by making the declaration envisaged under article 22 of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. 95. According to the information received, an administrative procedure had been initiated within the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, recommending that Brazil accept the right to individual petition before the Committee. The Special Rapporteur would appreciate receiving further information on this procedure and any concrete results. 96. Recommendation (cc) stated: The Government is also urged to consider inviting the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions to visit the country. 97. It is noted with satisfaction that the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions visited Brazil in September/October 2003. 98. Recommendation (dd) stated: The United Nations Voluntary Fund for the Victims of Torture is invited to consider sympathetically requests for assistance by non-governmental organizations working for the medical needs of persons who have been tortured and for the legal redress of their grievance. 99. The Special Rapporteur has been informed by NGOs that the assistance offered by the Fund is not commensurate with the existing demands in the country. 100. The Special Rapporteur expresses the wish that the Government will also provide information on the follow-up to the recommendations, with due regard to the information received from non-governmental sources, as reflected above. Chile Seguimiento dado a las recomendaciones del Relator Especial reflejadas en su informe sobre su visita a Chile en agosto de 1995 (E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.2, párr. 176) 101. Por carta con fecha de 15 de julio de 2003, el Relator Especial solicitó al Gobierno información sobre el seguimiento dado a las recomendaciones hechas tras la visita al país realizada en 1995. Información sobre esta materia previamente proporcionada por el Gobierno ya fue reflejada en el informe del Relator Especial (E/CN.4/2000/9/Add.1, párrs. 2 a 19). Los comentarios del Gobierno sobre dicha visita pueden encontrarse en el informe del Relator Especial (E/CN.4/1997/7, párrs. 44 a 53). Por carta con fecha de 10 de septiembre de 2003, el Gobierno proporcionó la siguiente información sobre el estado actual de las situaciones consideradas en las recomendaciones del Relator Especial. 102. La recomendación a) dice: La policía uniformada (carabineros) deberá quedar sometida a la autoridad, no ya del Ministro de Defensa, sino del Ministro del Interior. Los carabineros deberán quedar sometidos a la jurisdicción penal ordinaria únicamente, y no a