Yes, under the commitments made by states to combat torture, states are required to report on a periodic basis to the United Nations Convention against Torture. Sessions are held by the UN Committee against Torture when they examine a state party's report, and at the end, they issue the concluding observations on that particular state party.
In 2010 in particular, the UN Committee against Torture was critical of the fact that France has just one general definition of torture on the basis that it was unclear whether or not the definition of torture contained therein the specific definition of torture that's found in the United Nations Convention against Torture. They have suggested to France that they, presumably in addition to the general offence of torture, have a specific offence of state torture where the definition is modelled precisely on the definition of torture found in the United Nations Convention against Torture.
They were critical of a country that had in its domestic regime just the mention of the word “torture”—there was no definition of the word—and they wanted to ensure that state torture was distinguished from other kinds of acts that France wanted to call torture. This would certainly help in reporting back to the United Nations Committee against Torture on information that the state has with regard to how many instances of torture, as defined by the United Nations Convention against Torture, have occurred during the reporting period.