118 STAT. 2070 PUBLIC LAW 108–375—OCT. 28, 2004 (2) Ensuring that each Department of Defense contract in which contract personnel in the course of their duties interact with individuals detained by the Department of Defense on behalf of the United States Government include a requirement that such contract personnel have received training, and docu mented acknowledgment of receiving training, regarding the international obligations and laws of the United States applicable to the detention of personnel. (3) Providing all detainees with information, in their own language, of the applicable protections afforded under the Geneva Conventions. (4) Conducting periodic unannounced and announced inspections of detention facilities in order to provide continued oversight of interrogation and detention operations. (5) Ensuring that, to the maximum extent practicable, detainees and detention facility personnel of a different gender are not alone together. (c) SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CERTIFICATION.—The Secretary of Defense shall certify that all Federal employees and civilian contrac tors engaged in the handling or interrogation of individuals detained by the Department of Defense on behalf of the United States Government have fulfilled an annual training requirement on the law of war, the Geneva Conventions, and the obligations of the United States under international law. SEC. 1093. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. (a) TRANSMISSION OF REGULATIONS, ETC.—Not later than 30 days after the date on which regulations, policies, and orders are first prescribed under section 1092(a), the Secretary of Defense shall transmit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representa tives copies of such regulations, policies, or orders, together with a report on steps taken to the date of the report to implement section 1092. (b) ONE YEAR IMPLEMENTATION REPORT.—Not later than one year after the date on which regulations, policies, and orders are first prescribed under section 1092(a), the Secretary shall submit to such committees a report on further steps taken to implement section 1092 to the date of such report. (c) ANNUAL REPORT.—Nine months after the date of the enact ment of this Act and annually thereafter, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Com mittee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report for the preceding 12 months containing the following: (1) Notice of any investigation into any violation of inter national obligations or laws of the United States regarding the treatment of individuals detained by the United States Armed Forces or by a person providing services to the Depart ment of Defense on a contractual basis, if the notice will not compromise any ongoing criminal or administrative investiga tion or prosecution. (2) General information on the foreign national detainees in the custody of the Department of Defense during the 12 month period covered by the report, including the following: (A) The best estimate of the Secretary of Defense of the total number of detainees in the custody of the Depart ment as of the date of the report.
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