The Reporting Procedure
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TABLE 6 SIMPLIFIED REPORTING PROCEDURE
Treaty Body
Year of adoption of SRP
Modalities
CAT
2007
• All periodic reports and long overdue initial reports
HRCttee
2010
• All periodic reports *
CMW
2011
• All periodic reports and long overdue initial reports**
CRPD
2013
All periodic reports
CRC
2014
For periodic reports due as of 2019
CESCR
2014
From third periodic report and onwards, due in 2017
CERD
2014
Periodic reports overdue for more than 5 years, prioritizing those
more than 10 years overdue
CEDAW
2014
Periodic reports overdue as of 1 January 2015, and provided
that the State party concerned has submitted an updated common
core document, in accordance with harmonized guidelines, that
date back no more than five years, or less in cases where there
have been significant political or socioeconomic changes during
the five-year period.
*As decided by the Committee at its 111th session held in July 2014.
**The procedure is applied in line with the Committee’s reporting calendar (see Section 4.1.1, Reporting
Periodicity).
As previously briefly explained, the Simplified Reporting Procedure abolishes one step of the reporting
cycle under the Standard Reporting Procedure, namely the written replies of the State party to the List
of Issues transmitted once a State party report has been submitted. Under the SRP the reporting cycle
starts when the relevant Treaty Body sends a List of Issues prior to Reporting (LOIPR) to a State party
(see Figure 2, The Simplified Reporting Procedure). This means that under the SRP and in line with the
harmonized guidelines on reporting (see Section 4.1.2, Content of Reports), the State party report is
made up of the replies of the State party to the LOIPR, together with the common core document.
The State party report under the Simplified Reporting Procedure
Replies of the State party to the LOIPR (treaty-specific report)
+
Common Core Document
The aim of a LOIPR is to provide an outline for the review of a State party so as to make it more
focused and effective. In general, a LOIPR requests that State parties provide information on a) the
follow-up and implementation of the previous concluding observations of the relevant Treaty Body;
b) the adoption of other measures and recent developments relating to implementation of the treaty;
and c) specific human rights issues identified by the Treaty Body and relating to implementation of
the relevant treaty. As a result, treaty-specific reports under the Simplified Reporting Procedure are
rather more straightforward in terms of the information that State parties should include than are
reports submitted under the Standard Reporting Procedure.
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