CAT/OP/MEX/1/Add.2 • Gathering and collating information on victims of crime and on the support received by them; • Promoting research and preparing and publicizing surveys and studies on the situation of victims of crime, and recommending measures and amendments to the legal framework in order to ensure their recognition and effective and timely support; • Developing and proposing the implementation of models and protocols on the provision of support to victims of crime and furnishing related specialist advice; • Generating, compiling, processing and collating information from mechanisms and programmes for the provision of support for victims of crime. B. State legislation 72. The crime of torture is established in all the states, either in specific laws or in criminal codes, as well as in the related federal act. 73. The 15 states which have specific legislation on torture are: • Aguascalientes (14 May 1995); • Campeche (28 October 1993); • Coahuila (27 July 1993); • Colima (13 May 1995); • Chiapas (9 February 1994); • Mexico state (25 February 1994); • Jalisco (21 December 1993); • Morelos (22 December 1993); • Nayarit (27 August 2005); • Oaxaca (20 November 1993); • Quintana Roo (13 November 1992); • Tlaxcala (11 December 2003); • Veracruz (17 April 1999); • Yucatán (1 December 2003); • Guerrero (26 December 1990).2 The remaining 17 states define the crime of torture in their criminal code. 2 30 In this case the crime of torture is established in the Act Creating the Human Rights Commission and Instituting the Missing Persons Procedure, whose article 53 defines the crime of torture and whose article 54 lays down the penalty applicable in cases of commission of this unlawful act. However, this instrument is not applied in practice, the courts’ argument being that they are prevented from so doing since these provisions are not included in the State Criminal Code, a situation which is to be rectified with the legislative bills currently under examination in the state congress to amend the Criminal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure. GE.13-41196 (EXT)