A/71/44 was appointed as the new Rapporteur for follow-up to concluding observations at the end of the Committee’s fifty-seventh session. 45. From May 2003 to the end of the fifty-seventh session, in May 2016, the Committee reviewed 190 reports from States parties for which it identified follow-up recommendations. Of the 167 follow-up reports that had been due by 13 May 2016, the time of the adoption of the present report, 119 had been received by the Committee, for a 71 per cent overall response rate. The status of the follow-up is compiled in a chart maintained on the web page of the Committee. 7 Additional information, including submissions by States parties, communications sent by the rapporteur for follow-up, State party responses and reports from national human rights institutions, non-governmental organizations and other civil society actors, are posted on that web page. 46. As at 13 May 2016, the following States had not yet supplied follow-up information that had fallen due: 8 Albania (forty-eighth session), Benin (thirty-ninth), Bolivia (Plurinational State of) (fiftieth), Burkina Faso (fifty-first), Cambodia (forty-fifth), Cameroon (forty-fourth), Chad (forty-second), Costa Rica (fortieth), Cuba (forty-eighth), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (thirty-fifth), Djibouti (forty-seventh), Ecuador (forty-fifth), El Salvador (forty-third), Ethiopia (forty-fifth), Gabon (forty-ninth), Ghana (forty-sixth), Guinea (fifty-second), Indonesia (fortieth), Kyrgyzstan (fifty-first), Madagascar (forty-seventh), Mauritania (fiftieth), Mauritius (forty-sixth), Mozambique (fifty-first), Nicaragua (forty-second), Rwanda (forty-eighth), Sierra Leone (fifty-second), South Africa (thirty-seventh), the Syrian Arab Republic (forty-eighth), Uganda (thirtyfourth), Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (fifty-third), Yemen (forty-fourth), Zambia (fortieth), and the Holy See (fifty-second). 47. The Rapporteur sends reminders requesting the outstanding information to each State party for which follow-up information is due, but has not yet been submitted. During the period under review, the Rapporteur sent reminders to Burundi, Croatia, Guinea, Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Uruguay, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) and the Holy See.9 48. From 16 May 2014 to 13 May 2015, follow-up reports were received from the following 11 States parties, in the order of receipt: Cyprus (CAT/C/CYP/CO/4/Add.1), Croatia (CAT/C/HRV/CO/4-5/Add.2), Thailand (CAT/C/THA/CO/1/Add.1), Lithuania (CAT/C/LTU/CO/3/Add.1), Uruguay (CAT/C/URY/CO/3/Add.1), Montenegro (CAT/C/MNE/CO/2/Add.1), Kazakhstan (CAT/C/KAZ/CO/3/Add.1), Australia (CAT/C/AUS/CO/4-5/Add.1), Sweden (CAT/C/SWE/CO/6-7/Add.1), Ukraine (CAT/C/UKR/CO/6/Add.1) and United States of America (CAT/C/USA/CO/3-5/Add.1).10 49. The Rapporteur expresses appreciation for the information provided by these States parties regarding measures taken to implement their obligations under the Convention. He assesses the responses received as to whether all the issues identified by the Committee for follow-up have been addressed by the State party and whether the information provided responds to the Committee’s concerns and recommendations. The Rapporteur communicates with States parties under the follow-up procedure once their report has been _________________ 7 8 9 10 GE.16-13567 In 2010, the Committee established a separate web page for follow-up: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/FollowUp.aspx?Treaty=CAT&Lang=en. An overview of the follow-up procedure since 2003 can be found at the same web page. States parties that did not supply follow-up information prior to the submission of their next periodic report are not included in the list. Communications sent by the Rapporteur for follow-up to concluding observations are available from the web page for follow-up (http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/TreatyBodyExternal/FollowUp.aspx? Treaty=CAT&Lang=en). Follow-up reports by States parties are available from the web page for follow-up. 11