Translation of "Staatenbericht" in English

Germany has now submitted its fifth country report.

For further information please refer to the Second Periodical Report.

For this purpose, they ought to hand in a so-called State Report, which is made public.

The Committee examined Sudan's report on 11 and 12 July 2007.

The Second State Report, in various passages, also lacks the desired precision.

Furthermore, reference is made to the Second Periodical Report.

The present State Report draws a positive picture of cultural and language promotion in the Land of Rhineland-Palatinate.

The four-language Kugy classes, which were also described in the Second Periodical Report, also maintain school partnerships with Slovenia and Italy.

The last Austrian state report for the Framework Convention was submitted in August 2010.

The adult-education and further-training projects by the organisations of the national minority group which were already described in the Second Periodical Report were continued and expanded during the reporting period 2007 to 2011.

Contrary to the indication in the Periodical Report (II.1.2, margin note 133) there are hardly any bilingual documents.

The Second State Report of the Federal Republic of Germany on the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages is an impressive and absolutely essential instrument on the way to progressive implementation of the undertakings entered into by the federal states (Länder).

Gernot Erler, Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office, and Dr Peter Altmaier, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, will present the first German country report in the Human Rights Council in Geneva today (2 February).

As was already described in detail in the Second Periodical Report, the regional school inspector for the minority school system also supervises the Burgenland-Croatian school system.

In addition to the information provided in the Second Periodical Report, we can report about the current pupil developments at the bilingual Federal Commercial College in Klagenfurt, at the bilingual Teaching Institute for Commercial Occupations at St. Peter, and in the attached bilingual one-year Vocational School for Commercial Occupations, i.e. that the pupil numbers continue to be on a high level.

As was already described in the Second Periodical Report, primarily cultural and linguistic activities of the Roma in Burgenland receive financial support from the federal budget for the promotion of the national minority groups.

In a transparent process, civil society organisations were provided with the opportunity to present their positions with regard to the State Report.

Austria submitted the last report for the Charter in 2011 and the recommendations of the expert committee, based on this report, were published in November 2012.

The UPR is based on national country reports, a compilation of documents prepared by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and a summary of statements submitted by NGOs on the country in question.

In a parallel report to the report of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Corinna Gekeler argues that Germany must put an end to this racist discrimination.

As was already described in detail in the Second Periodical Report, a separate school supervisory board has been set up for the Slovene and bilingual schools in Carinthia.

Irrespective of the opportunity given to language groups to have their own comments included in Part E, the State Report proper - for which the Fedreal Government takes responsibility - must be accurate (in terms of substance) and complete as regards all important processes in connection with the Charter's imple- mentation.

Since 2004 ten meetings of the Coalition for Cultural Diversity have taken place; during the tenth session in April 2012 the Coalition for Cultural Diversity discussed the first German Report on the implementation of the Convention.

In its concluding observations on the initial report of Germany, the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recommended that Germany carry out a review with a view to formally abolishing all practices regarded as acts of torture, namely prohibit the use of physical and chemical restraints in institutions for persons with disabilities (cf.

Like in 2011, the review took place on the basis of three reports: the State Report, submitted by the Austrian Federal Government, the compilation of all relevant recommendations of UN and regional Human Rights mechanism (EN), submitted by the UNHRC and the contributions of NGO 's that have been summarised by the UNHCR (EN).

As already stated in the Initial State Report, the following options regarding Low German in classroom instruction continue to apply unchanged also in the years 2001 - 2003.

At the federal level, the reporting requirement is met by the Imple-mentation Conference and the resultant State Report as presented here for the second time.

In addition to the detailed information about the Minorities School Act for Carinthia in Austria's Second Periodical Report, the following tables provide further information about the current Slovene language skills of school children within the domain of bilingual primary-school education in Carinthia.

As was already mentioned in the Second Periodical Report, especially Burgenland-Croatian associations and projects in the federal capital of Vienna receive promotional funding.