AUSTRIA Body responsible for monitoring Year of establishment and legislative references Type of body Number of operations monitored in 2018 Number of returns carried out in 2018 Reporting Verein Menschenrechte Österreich (VMO) – Human Rights Association Austria http://www.verein-menschenrechte.at Established in 2011 under § 10 FPG-DV (Implementing Ordinance of the Alien’s Police Act - Human rights observers’ duties during return operations) Human rights watch, it does not constitute the National Preventive Mechanism against torture but it cooperates with it. The NPM can take part in the monitoring process. 58 All three phases monitored Top 5 nationalities Total 2,593 Serbia Men 2,153 Nigeria Women 462 Georgia Minors 194 Afghanistan Russia A report for the Federal Ministry of the Interior must be prepared within a week by the monitor who followed the operations. This report is also forwarded to the NPM The individual and final reports are not public Civil society interventions/accessibility of the information collected Use of checklists A specific template is used