Implementation of recommendations Recommendations Executed Non-executed Non-executed due to lack of funds Non-executed due to lack of buildings Lack of response (infromation) Total: Number 135 24 16 2 76 253 Recommendations made and their implementation depending on the bodies Total Body number Ministry of Justice 54 Ministry of health 50 Ministry of Labour and Social Policy 101 Executed 19 14 Non-executed 12 1 Lack of response 10 39 35 4 62 Particular recommendations in the reports of the NPM to the respective state and municipal authorities, as well as information about their responses are reflected in the attached Summary Table 1. “. Information on the inspections carried out in 2012 by the Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria in his capacity of a National Preventive Mechanism under the Optional Protocol to the Convention of the United Nations against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment“(see page 43). Outside the recommendations that the NPM may make in the reports under art. 28d of the Law on Ombudsman, in 2012 the Ombudsman has used three times the power under art. 46 LIPSD and recommended to the Minister of Justice: - “Kremikovtzi” prison dormitory with the prison in the city of Sofia to be closed; - to close or relocate in a site - public property, “Ceramic Factory” prison dormitory with the prison in the city of Vratsa; - To take measures to expand the living space in the prison in Stara Zagora, in “Cherna gora” prison dormitory, including by way of discussion of the financial capabilities of the “Prisons Production” State Enterprise and voluntary service of the prisoners. 6 Annual Report of the National Preventive Mechanism | OMBUDSMAN OF THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA