The CPA is a material law which serves to ensure not only efficient prosecution and sanctioning of perpetrators, but also sets clear limits of the state's intrusion of fundamental human rights. Therefore, in view of the protection of human rights, it is essential that each individual provision as well as all provisions as a whole, comply with the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia and the spirit of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. As each novelty in the CPA is of exceptional importance and significance for ensuring the rule of law, the Ministry of Justice received our opinion on the draft of the final Proposal of the Act on Amendments to the CPA, particularly in connection with Chapter IX which prescribes the execution of detention on remand and conduct with prisoners held in detention on remand, because those provisions have not been more significantly, that is, materially changed since the CPA passed in 1997. We also proposed to include, in accordance with the CPT standards and general comments of the UN Committee against Torture, the right of the arrested person to a medical examination and not only emergency medical assistance, but our proposals were not accepted. Proposal of the Act on the Protection of Persons with Mental Disorders One of the most sensitive issues related to persons with mental disorders is definitely the issue of involuntary hospitalisation. Involuntary hospitalisation represents a restriction of a fundamental human right to freedom, so such procedures have to be prescribed by law and based on a court decision. Any mental illness cannot by itself constitute sufficient cause for involuntary placement of a person in a psychiatric institution, for which it is required to fulfil the precondition that a person with a more severe mental disorder is, due to his/her condition, seriously and directly endangering his/her own life, health or safety, or the life, health or safety of other persons. Recognising the need to amend the existing APPMD, we joined the public discussion related to the preparation of a new text, which is certainly a positive step forward in the protection of persons with mental disorders. Firstly, the new proposal of the APPMD brings the accommodation of persons with mental disorders who are unable to give their consent back under judicial control, which is one of the control mechanisms that should significantly reduce any potential misuse of the measure of involuntary institutionalisation. However, we consider that the law should prescribe the types, purpose and conditions for the use of means of coercion on persons with severe mental disorders who are placed in a psychiatric institution, as well as any restrictions on the use of means of coercion on, for example, particular categories of persons with mental disabilities (children, pregnant women and the like), while the method of use should be elaborated by way of an ordinance. Whilst respecting the controversies surrounding the use of electroconvulsive therapy, special attention was also paid to the assumptions for use of this method of treatment. We support the proposed solution, according to which electroconvulsive therapy is permitted only on the basis of a written consent of the person with a mental disorder, when all other methods of treatment have proven unsuccessful, and when it is expected that its use will benefit the person with a mental disorder without adverse side-effects, provided that the ethics