CAT/OP/CHL/1/Add.1 Diagram 1 Coordinating bodies (Prepared by the author) Interministerial working group meetings Justice sector round table meetings Service meetings (a) Prison Service (b) National Service for Minors (c) Public Criminal Defender Service Health subcommittee meetings (Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Prison Service, National Service for Minors and Ministry of Health) 14. To ensure that each service involved in the Justice Sector Round Table had access to the necessary information, a fact sheet was produced for each measure that needed to be taken in order to comply with the Subcommittee’s recommendations. Each fact sheet indicated the recommendation concerned, the steps to be taken, the units responsible for taking those steps within each service and the time frame for implementation.14 Chapter 2 Recommendations to be implemented by ministries 2.1 Legal measures 15. Some of the Subcommittee’s recommendations refer specifically to legal reforms that would have a direct impact in terms of torture prevention. The progress and commitments made in this regard are set forth below. 2.1.1 National preventive mechanism 16. Paragraph 20: The Subcommittee urges the State party to comply swiftly with its international obligation to establish a national preventive mechanism, along with the specific guarantees such national mechanisms should have. In particular, it is important for the State party to make provision for the funding required for that purpose in the 2017 financial year. The Subcommittee reiterates its readiness to cooperate with the State party and to provide any guidance and support required in respect of the commitment made by the Government during the Subcommittee’s visit to submit a bill for the establishment of a national preventive mechanism. 17. Paragraph 17: The Subcommittee recommends that, in order to guarantee the functional independence of the national preventive mechanism, it should not be subordinate in any way to the National Human Rights Institute. The organizational hierarchy of the Institute should reflect the requirements set forth in the Optional Protocol, namely that the national preventive mechanism should have operational autonomy as regards its resources, programme of work, findings and recommendations and a direct and confidential means of maintaining contact with the Subcommittee. 18. Paragraph 110: The Subcommittee recommends that the State party ensure that all detention centres and alternative care facilities for minors are subject to a system of regular, unannounced monitoring visits. 19. When Chile ratified the Optional Protocol in 2008, it took on the international obligation to maintain, designate or establish, within a period of one year, one or several independent national preventive mechanisms for the prevention of torture, pursuant to 14 6 One fact sheet was drawn up for each measure, which means that some recommendations correspond to more than one fact sheet. GE.17-07762