CEDAW/C/SR.37 English Page 14 (Ms. Macedo de Sleppard) on prostitution, it could be deduced from the list of penalties contained in the report and from the text of the relevant articles that punishment was optional. W1at was cited as constituting a penalty in the text lacked any punitive nature in lawJ rather, those measures appeared to constitute a regulation of prostitution. It would be interesting to have some clarification on that point. Likewise, the meaning of the word 'maintains" in article 365 of the Criminal Code was unclear. 47. Finally, in the section on desertion of the family and abandonment and exposure of children, it was stated that article 387 of the Criminal Code stipulated that if the abandonment or exposure had caused the death of a child or an invalid, the guilty parties would be punished in various ways which were subsequently enumerated. There was no doubt that the situation in question was premeditated homicide aggravated by the fact that it was committed against a minor or an incompetent - in other words, a very serious situation in the criminal legislation of nost countries) and yet she was quite surprised that the penalties imposed were much lighter than those µ-escribed in the µ:eceding chapter, corx:erning offences against individual freedom. It would be interesting to know the reason for that glaring discrepancy. 48. Ms. ESCUDERO MO~OSO commended the representative of a.Janda for her statement, which had complemented her country ls report considerably. Since the committee's guidelines for the preparation of national reports had apparently not been followed in the case of the report of l\.landa, it might perhaps be useful to have the information that had been provided orally made available to the Committee in an annex to the report. The CHAIRPERSON asked the representative of l\.landa whether she would be able to reply to the experts' questions during the meeting to be held on the morning of TUesday, 27 March, or whether she i;ceferred to reply on Wednesday, . 28 March. 49. 50. Miss BAZIYAKA (l\.landa) said that, in view of the large number of questions which had been asked about her country's report, she would reefer to answer at the Wednesday morning meeting. ORGANIZATIONAL AND OTHER MATTERS 51. The CHAIRPERSON informed the members of the committee that the Government of Panama had asked the secretariat to postpone consideration of its report until the committee's next session, which would be held in 1985. Consequently, at the · 'l\lesday morning meeting, the committee would hear the introduction of the report of z..brway and, in the afternoon, the replies of the representative of ):}:Jypt. If time permitted, r-rs. Shahani would make a statement. Ms. GONZALEZ MARTINEZ welcomed Mrs. Sellarni Meslem, representative of the secretary-~neral and asked the secretariat to provide some clarification regarding the final distribution of reports from the specialized agencies. Sle had received the reports of UNESCO and ILO, and believed that FAO had also s ubmitted a report. fhe had heard that the reports had been distributed on a provisional basis, since they could not be identified as documents of the committee without masthead or <''> f:ficial symbol. In her view, they should have them even though they were . .,, ,:·~,-:i.com~d dc,:;m~nts. 5 2. I . ..