Body responsible for monitoring Year of establishment and legislative references Type of body The Greek Ombudsman https://www.synigoros.gr/?i=stp.en.home Operational since 1 October 1998, responsible for monitoring forced returns since 2011, law No. 3907/2011 Independent authority provided for by the Constitution. It also constitutes the National Preventive Mechanism Number of operations 41 monitored in 2018 All three phases monitored Number of returns carried Top 5 nationalities out in 2018 Total 7,776 Albania Men n/a Iraq Women n/a Pakistan Minors n/a Georgia Iran Reporting The report of each operation, filled in and signed by the monitor in charge, is immediately submitted to the Ombudsman and to the Deputy Ombudsman for Human Rights and made available to the members of the monitoring team Civil society On a quarterly basis, the Ombudsman addresses the main interventions/accessibility conclusions, observations and suggestions to the of the information responsible Ministers and the Chief of Police and asks for collected the necessary measures to be taken. Each year, the Ombudsman’s report is presented to the Parliament and The Greek Ombudsman is invited to present his conclusions to the competent Parliamentary Commission. The annual report is published on the Ombudsman's website and presented at an annual conference Use of checklists A pre-compiled model and an internally developed checklist are used. All the information collected, comments and suggestions, as well as the results of the monitoring, are included in a report signed by the monitor Country HUNGARY