Ireland No NPM established326 Italy The Italian NPM has been operational since March327 Latvia No NPM established328 X Lithuania Luxemburg Malta X Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania The Romanian NPM was established in 2015. Slovakia No NPM established331 X X 329 X 330 X X Slovenia 332 Spain Sweden United Kingdom Jan-Mar333 X X Footnotes: 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 326 At the time of writing, Ireland had signed the OPCAT on the 2nd October 2007 but not yet ratified it. Although there is no NPM, the Office of the Inspector of Prisons, a statutory, independent office established under the Prisons Act, 2007 has carried out regular inspections of the 13 Prisons and prepares and presents comprehensive reports on each institution inspected as well as an Annual Report to the Minister for Justice. 327 The first annual report of the Italian NPM will be published in March 2017 and will be fully available in English. 328 At the time of writing, Latvia is not a signatory to the OPCAT. 329 The 2013 annual report is translated into English, not the 2014 and 2015 reports. 330 A summary of the Annual Report 2015 and a summary of the Special Report on the conditions of detention in prisons and remand centres are available in English on the Romanian NPM’s website. 331 At the time of writing, Slovakia is not a signatory to the OPCAT. 332 The 2015 Spanish Annual report is so far only published in Spanish. All other reports were also published in English. 333 The UK NPM annual report for 2015 covers January-March 2015. 90