rights bodies, in particular the UN Committee against Torture, the most recent recommendations addressed to the Kyrgyz Republic as regards the combating of torture within the Universal Periodic Review in June 2010, and recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. All recommendations are intended to help improve the procedure and conditions of custody in TDFs and reception centres of internal affairs bodies and pre-trial detention facilities and bring them in compliance with standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners, and are aimed at improving the human rights record in these institutions. RECOMMENDATIONS:15 COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS OBLIGATIONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL TREATIES RATIFIED BY THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC 1. To ensure permanent parliamentary control over Kyrgyzstan’s compliance with obligations within international human rights treaties and timely submission of periodic reports on implementing these obligations. 2. For the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, to develop and to adopt a plan for implementing recommendations, final comments and decisions of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and special procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and treaty bodies. 3. To initiate a statement on recognizing the competence of the UN Committee against Torture to deal with individual reports related to the violation of the right to freedom from torture as per Article 22 of the UN Convention against Torture. RECOGNITION AND OBSERVANCE OF DECISIONS MADE BY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGTHS BODIES BY THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC 1. 2. To develop an effective mechanism for the Kyrgyz Republic to enforce the decisions of international human rights bodies establishing human rights violations, including those decisions that have already been passed by the UN Human Rights Committee with respect to the Kyrgyz Republic. To design and to discuss a draft law on introducing amendments in the CPC KR establishing that decisions of international human rights bodies, particularly those by the UN Committee against Torture, should be the grounds for resuming criminal proceedings based on new circumstances. Roundtable meeting on discussing the results of the 2011 monitoring study CREATING AN EFFECTIVE MECHANISM FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF TORTURE ALLEGATIONS 1) Ensuring prompt consideration of torture allegations 1. To introduce in legislation a special procedure for considering claims and complaints about torture. To determine three days as the longest time for considering torture allegations and passing decisions. To provide for an exhaustive list of exceptional cases when claims of torture can be considered and a decision can be passed thereon, within not more than ten days. 15 The majority of these recommendations developed by independent experts and experts from organizations that have taken part in implementing the 2012 project and organizations that acceded to the Memorandum of Understanding in the area of human rights and freedoms have already been submitted to Working Groups on improving human rights protection mechanisms for consideration. 17