available for them. However, some of them expressed their wish to have full legal aid concerning the removal process.185 It is noteworthy that the access to legal consultation under the law cannot be considered to be a fullscale legal aid. It is important to ensure that persons set for removal should benefit from full legal aid in the decision-making process about their removal. It should be taken into account that the Law of Georgia on Legal Aid determines the group of persons eligible for legal aid and foreigners set for removal are not among them. Therefore, in order to ensure the exercise of this right, it is necessary to make appropriate changes to the legislation. It is noteworthy that the Public Defender made a recommendation in the 2015 parliamentary report regarding this issue. This recommendation has not been fulfilled to this day. 4.4. CONDITIONS IN THE TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION CENTRE Similar to the visits made in 2015 and 2017, the infrastructure in the TAC and situation in terms of sanitation and hygiene conditions should be positively assessed in 2018 too. However, individuals held in the TAC cannot move freely in the facility’s premises. The individuals held in the TAC are mostly locked in their wings and only at the specified time,186 together with the security personnel of the TAC, can go to the yard, dining room, computer and meetings room. Considering that a person can be placed in the TAC for up to 9 months,187 it is important to ensure that the TAC infrastructure, regime and recreational activities provide to the maximum extent possible psychological and emotional relief for the persons placed in custody to be removed from Georgia. To this end, it is necessary to arrange a recreational room in the TAC, equipped with recreational means (for instance, table games). The CPT, in its report to the Georgian Government on the visit to Georgia carried out on 10-21 September 2018, invited the Georgian authorities to make more efforts to offer some organised activities (e.g. 185 Legal aid means drafting legal documents, representation before court on criminal, administrative and civil cases as well as administrative bodies at the state’s expense. 186 Free time spent in the daytime at the TAC covers 6 hours. During this period, a person in custody can use a computer twice a day for 30 minutes each time; besides, in good weather (the yard is not covered and therefore, it is impossible to use it in bad weather), a person accommodated in the centre can go into the establishment yard; there is a basketball court arranged in the yard but there is no exercise equipment (in practice, persons accommodated in the centre can only spend one hour in the open air. In addition, arrested persons can use one TV set placed in the meetings room, which often leads to conflict among persons in custody. Evening activities include one-hour rest in wings, dinner, roll call and allocation to rooms. 187 Foreigners being in Georgia without a legal basis can be placed in the TAC up to 3 months with a view of their expulsion from Georgia. This term can be extended for another 6 months based on the reasoned motion filed with a court. 71