The Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC) has handed in a report on the British Government's demilitarisation programme to ministers.
The latest report from the body charged with scrutinising paramilitary ceasefires in Northern Ireland is not expected to be published until next week.
It examines British government plans to scale back its presence in the North following the IRA's declaration of an end of its armed campaign last August.
The demilitarisation programme, which was announced by the British government last year, included plans to tear down Army watchtowers in republican areas in south Armagh, Derry and west Belfast.
In a previous report to the Northern Ireland Office and the Irish Government that was published in March, the IMC found the British government and army were honouring the demilitarisation, or normalisation, commitments.
It reported that from June 2004 to January of this year, British troop levels dropped by over 4,600 from 13,876 to 9,209.
Moreover, the number of army observation posts operating along the Border and in other high security areas fell by 50 per cent over the same period from 10 to five.
The IMC is due to publish another report in early October that will focus on the state of the IRA and loyalist paramilitaries' ceasefires.
Officials in Britain and Ireland are hopeful that a positive report on the IRA could lead to talks restarting between the Democratic Unionists and other northern parties on power sharing.