26 NPM Teams that are conducting visits to the institutions where persons deprived of their liberty are placed are multidisciplinary and as a rule, formed of experienced lawyers, psychiatrists, forensic medical examiners and psychologists. As a rule, regular visits are scheduled in advance, in specific stages. The first stage is the interview with the management of institution, the second one is the joint tour of the institution. The third stage is planned to include interviews of the NPM thematic group representatives (the legal, treatment and health care group) with the managements of respective services and examination of documents. The fourth stage are the interviews with persons deprived of their liberty while the fifth stage includes a brief meeting of all the thematic groups and the closing discussion with the institution management, at which the preliminary impressions about the visit and the observed conditions are being shared. Acting upon the established stages is not obligatory, it depends on the nature of visit and other circumstances. The common practice is that certain stages are omitted in visits of different nature. During each visit, in order to achieve a more efficient and systematic performance, the team members use questionnaires that they need to fill in, including the compendiums of excerpts from all relevant regulations and standards related to their specific field of work. In line with the work methodology, as a rule, the reports are being composed following the prearranged structure. However, depending on the nature of visit and data collected in the course of specific visit, the scheduled structure of report may be changed and adjusted to the nature of the visit, at the proposal of the team members. The reports on the conducted visits to the institutions where persons deprived of their liberty are placed, NPM stated the omissions and provided its recommendations for eliminating the deficiencies as potential sources of torture or mistreatment. In the event of identifying deficiencies and/or any irregularities in the work, the relevant provisions and standards that the status and actions need to be aligned with are being specified, along with the issued recommendations. The Reports are being sent to the visited institutions and the competent Ministry, providing, as a rule, the time limit for stating their opinion about their compliance with the issued recommendations, with an invitation for a dialogue to review the implementation of the recommendations. The NPM methodology envisages initiating the dialogue with the visited institution and the competent Ministry with the aim to ensure the implementation of recommendations. The purpose of the dialogue with the visited institutions and competent Ministries is to review the conditions found in the visited institution and the system as a whole, primarily to seek for the best method of acting upon the recommendations addressed by NPM after having completed the visits.