Footnotes:
1 See above, Art 2 OP, 3.
2 Arts 10 to 13 ECPR; See Ursula Kriebaum, Folterprävention in Europa: Die Europäische Konvention zur Verhütung von Folter und unmenschlicher oder erniedrigender Behandlung oder Bestrafung (Verlag Österreich 2000) 135ff; Malcolm D Evans and Rod Morgan, Preventing Torture: A Study of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Clarendon Press/OUP 1998) 198.
3 Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment submitted by Costa Rica (1980) UN Doc E/CN.4/1409.
4 Letter dated 15 January 1991 from the Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations at Geneva addressed to the Under-Secretary-General for Human Rights (1991) UN Doc E/CN.4/1991/66.
5 Report of the Working Group on the Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on its Fourth Session (1996) UN Doc E/CN.4/1996/28, Annex I.
6 E/CN.4/2001/WG.11/CRP.1.
7 E/CN.4/2001/WG.11/CRP.2.
8 Report of the Working Group on a Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on its Tenth Session (2002) UN Doc E/CN.4/2002/78, Annex II E.
9 Report of the Working Group on a Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1992) UN Doc E/CN.4/1993/28, paras 89ff.
10 E/CN.4/1996/28 (n 5) paras 34ff.
11 Report of the working group on the draft optional protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on its Seventh Session (1998) UN Doc E/CN.4/1999/59, paras 70ff.
12 Report of the Working Group on the Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on its Eighth Session (1999) UN Doc E/CN.4/2000/58, paras 44ff.
16 The ECPT lacks, however, a provision similar to Art 16(2) OP which would entrust the CPT to publish the report as a whole if parts have been made public by the State party concerned. But see r 42(2) of the CPT’s RoP which stipulates as well that the CPT may publish the entire report if the State party concerned made only parts of it public: see CPT/Inf/C (89) 3 rev. 1.
17 See Kriebaum (n 2) 135ff; Evans and Morgan (n 2) 200.
18 See the Twenty-sixth General Report on the CPT’s activities of April 2017, CPT/Inf 2017/5, para 23: so far, only two out of the ten reports on the CPT’s missions to Azerbaijan have been made public. In 2013, the Russian Federation agreed to the publication of the mission reports on the CPT’s 2011 ad hoc mission to the North Caucasian region, as well as on the 2012 periodic mission to the Russian Federation, while out of the remaining twenty mission reports, nineteen have not yet been published.
20 See SPT, ‘Third Annual Report of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment’ (2010) UN Doc CAT/C/44/2, para 31.
21 See SPT, ‘Forth Annual Report of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment’ (2011) UN Doc CAT/C/46/2, para 19.
24 In 2014, Brazil was the first State that replied to the Subcommittee’s response. Both documents (response and reply) have been made public.
28 But see r 42(2) of the CPT’s RoP (n 15) above.
29 See above Art 15 OP, 1; cf also Art 11(3) ECPT.
30 The CPT needs a decision by a majority of two-thirds of its members to make a public statement, whereas the CAT Committee may decide by simple majority to make a public statement or to publish the report as a whole. Until the end of 2017, the CPT issued eight public statements under Art 10(2) ECPT. See also Kriebaum (n 2) 138ff; Evans and Morgan (n 2) 201.
31 See Manfred Nowak, ‘Die Europäische Konvention zur Verhütung der Folter: Ab 1989 regelmäßige Besuche von Haftanstalten durch Europäisches Komitee zur Verhütung der Folter’ (1988) 15 EuGRZ 537, 542.
32 E/CN.4/1996/28 (n 5) Annex I: see above para 7.
34 Such substantive issues eg concerned the SPT’s guidelines on NPMs or its approach to the concept of prevention of torture and other forms of ill-treatment (cf. CAT/C/46/2 (n 21)).
36 See eg CAT/C/42/2 (n 19) paras 31ff; CAT/C/44/2 (n 20), paras 35ff; CAT/C/46/2 (n 21) paras 55ff, CAT/C/52 (n 23) paras 63ff.