During this meeting, the Committee adopted the reports on its periodic visits to Belgium (March/April 2017), Turkey (May 2017) and Poland (May 2017), and on its ad hoc visits to Serbia (May/June 2017) and Italy (June 2017). These reports will be sent in due course to the respective authorities. In accordance with Article 11, paragraph 2, of the ECPT, the CPT’s reports and the government responses are published only at the request of the authorities (on a case-by-case basis or through a so-called “automatic publication procedure”).

The CPT also heard oral reports on recent visits carried out between July and October 2017, and prepared future visits. Other issues discussed included the states’ responses to previous visit reports and ongoing intergovernmental activities of the Council of Europe on matters within the CPT’s mandate.