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• Ministry of Justice, especially the Directorate for Enforcement of Penal Sanctions,
• Ministry of Health, especially the specialised hospitals for mental diseases and the Specialised
Hospital for Addiction Diseases,
• Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, especially the stationary institutions of social welfare,
• Ministry of Defence,
The National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
• Commission for Control over Execution of Penal Sanctions,
• Committee for Judiciary and Administration of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia,
Serbia’s Supreme Court,
The National Public Prosecutorial Office,
The High Judicial Council,
The State Council of Prosecutors
as well as all the staff therein,
establish cooperation stipulated by the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which provides the National
Mechanism for Prevention of Torture with:
• unhindered, unannounced and daily access to all institutions where persons deprived of liberty are
placed, i.e. to all premises and installations,
• having conversation in private with all persons deprived of liberty and all employees,
• access to all data on the number of people deprived of liberty, the institutions where these persons
are placed, their location, treatment and placement facilities,
• implementation of the recommendations issued by the National Mechanism for Prevention of
Torture in accordance with its mandate,
• timely and efficient exchange of relevant information.
Establishment of full cooperation of all state bodies with the National Mechanism for Prevention of
Torture is a prerequisite for its efficient work aiming at prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman
or degrading treatment or punishment in the Republic of Serbia.
IV
The National Mechanism for Prevention of Torture is encouraged to deliver the reports on its visits to
places of detention together with recommendations regularly and within reasonable time-frame to
institutions in charge of implementing the recommendations.
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