25 During the visits conducted in 2013 to the NPM institutions where persons deprived of their liberty are placed, the competent authorities and institutions had acted in accordance with Article 20 of the Optional Protocol. An unrestricted access to all institutions in which persons deprived of their liberty are placed, interviewing all PDLs and employees of the institutions, as well as the access to all documentation regardless of the degree of confidentiality, had been granted to the NPM in the course of 2013. 5.3. Reports on visits to institutions In 2013 the NPM made 42 ​​ reports76 of completed visits to institutions where persons deprived of their liberty are placed, with recommendations for remedying the identified deficiencies. Team members for visits i.e. representatives of the Protector of Citizens, the Provincial Ombudsman and responsible associations as well as engaged experts participated in reports drafting on completed visits, or perceived conditions. The Provincial Ombudsman independently compiled 13 reports on visits to homes for the elderly and geriatric institutions. 5.4. Recommendations for remedying identified deficiencies The reports on visits to the institutions where persons deprived of their liberty are placed, sent by the NPM to the competent authorities contain recommendations made for the purpose of remedying identified deficiencies. In 2013, the NPM sent 263 recommendations77 to the competent authorities for remedying identified deficiencies. With each recommendation addressed, except for the established facts or deficiencies in the work, the relevant regulations and standards are listed and referenced with which the existing conditions or treatment should be brought into line by the visited institution or competent authority. Reports are delivered to the visited institution and competent ministries, along with an invitation for a meeting during which the report is to be reviewed. 5.5. Establishing a cooperative dialogue with public authorities With the aim of a full implementation of the recommendations addressed in the reports on visit, during 2013 the NPM entered into dialogue with the Administration for Enforcement of Criminal Sanctions of the Ministry of Justice and Public Administration, Penal-Correctional Institution in Sremska Mitrovica, the Ministry of Health, Special Hospital for Psychiatric diseases “Sveti Vračevi” from Novi Kneževac, the Ministry of Interior, Police Directorate for the City of Belgrade and the Commissariat for refugees and migrations. With the visited institutions and relevant ministries, the NPM holds periodic meetings, in which addressed recommendations and applicable standards in the field of torture are discussed, in order to find ways to implement the recommendations and promotion of compliance with the standards. Particular attention 76 In the first quarter of 2014, the competent authorities had sent another 4 reports on the visits that were conducted at the end of 2013. As described general position and conditions of state inmates in 2013 and the main findings of this report are set out in this Annual Report NPM. 77 In the first quarter of 2014 another 137 recommendations were sent in the reports on visits conducted at the end of 2013. These recommendations are listed at the end of the NPM Annual Report, in Annex I/III.