2016 REPORT ON NATIONAL PREVENTION OF TORTURE Officers of the border stations have received additional instructions always to record the fact of holding a person delivered to a border station in the detention facility and the length of his or her stay there. They have also been obligated to specify the exact time, without rounding it up or down. The border stations and other structural units of the Varėna Border District have been supplied with first aid kits containing appropriate items; the sanitary rooms of the detention facilities have been provided with personal hygiene items (soap, tissues, tissue towels, etc.) and the plumbing fixtures have been restored to good and functional condition. Further information is awaited about the recommendation that the first aid facilities / lighting / cells should be supervised during inspections, and the recommendation that a possibility should be discussed to improve the legal framework on the supply of administrative and temporary detention facilities with personal hygiene items and other necessary articles. persons with disabilities, and no conditions exist for access to the border stations without additional obstacles (no ramps installed at the entrances). 4. Concerning the ensuring of cleanliness. Clean­ liness is not ensured in the facilities’ sanitary rooms, the plumbing fixtures are in poor condition, and there is no constant observation and destruction of rodents and arthropods. On completing the inspections at the border stations, the State Border Guard Service received 10 recommendations (of which three ones dealt with the improvement of the legal framework). Of this number, eight recommendations have been implemented, and information on the imp­ lementation of the other two recommendations is awaited. The Ministry of Health received one recommendations which has been implemented. The State Border Guard Service has informed that, with the additional funds allocated for 2017, works will be performed at the border stations to adapt them to the needs of persons with disabilities (ramps, entrance doors to the premises, and detention and personal hygiene facilities). If no additional funds are assigned, these works will be carried out to the minimum extent with the allocations made to the border districts. The requirement of the above-mentioned rules has been amended to stipulate that persons to be held in temporary detention facilities for more than 24 hours or at night-time should be provided with soft supplies; the border stations of the Varėna Border District have received soft supplies (mattresses, pillows, bed sheets, blankets, etc.), and the question of the installation of additional sleeping places in the detention facilities is being resolved. The lacking technical equipment for the surveillance of detained persons and the artificial lighting compliant with the statutory requirements are to be installed in Q1 2017. Also a recommendation has been issued to the Ministry of Health to consider the possibility of clarifying the existing legal framework by supplementing the list of facilities in which the constant observation and destruction of rodents and arthropods should be organised and carried out, and including in this list the border districts, border stations and border inspection posts of the State Border Guard Service as well as the Refugees Reception Centre. The Ministry of Health has implemented the Seimas Ombudsmen’s recommendation to supplement the list of facilities wherein the constant observation and destruction of rodents and arthropods should be organised and carried out as provided for in the Procedure for the compulsory preventive elimination of the harmful effects of the environment (disinfection, disinsectisation and destruction of rats), by including in this list also the Refugees 23