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5.9.
Cooperation with other NPMs
The Serbian NPM has continued cooperating with other NPM’s within the framework of the
Southeast Europe NPM Network.
In 2014, the Protector of Citizens continued his cooperation with members of the Southeast
Europe NPM Network. In May 2014, a representative of the Serbian NPM took part in the
Network meeting titled “Methodology of Writing NPM Reports” held in Ljubljana (Slovenia). In
October 2014, NPM representatives attended a special training session titled “Monitoring of
Psychiatric Institutions in the Context of Protection from Torture and Inhuman and Degrading
Treatment” held in Skopje (FYR Macedonia).
In 2014 the Serbian NPM received study visits from representatives of the Georgian NPM, the
Public Monitoring Commissions (PMC) of Russia and the Ukrainian NPM. During those study
visits, the Serbian NPM presented his work and visited places of detention together with the
representatives of these monitoring mechanisms. The Protector of Citizens was also visited by
representatives of the NPMs, public authorities and non-governmental organisations of
Montenegro and Albania.
In cooperation with the Spanish NPM, the Serbian NPM monitored the repatriation of
returnees from the Kingdom of Spain and the Federal Republic of Germany at the “Nikola
Tesla” Airport.
The Forum held in November 2014 was attended by members of 19 national preventive
mechanisms, including: Azerbaijan, Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
Greece, Estonia, Lithuania, Hungary, FYR Macedonia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Slovenia,
Serbia, France, Croatia, Montenegro and Czech Republic.
5.10. Distribution of NPM’s Annual Report
The States Parties to the Optional Protocol undertake to publish and disseminate the annual
reports of the national preventive mechanisms.78
The 2013 Annual Report of the NPM has been submitted to the National Assembly, the President
of the Republic, the Government of the Republic of Serbia, the Constitutional Court, the Supreme
Court of Cassation and the Republic Public Prosecutors’ Office.
With the support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, the Report has been translated into English and
published in both Serbian and English. The Report, in the form of a publication in Serbian, has
been submitted to the Committees and Commissions of the National Assembly, independent
public authorities, line ministries, all correctional facilities, all police administrations, social
security institutions, special psychiatric hospitals, university schools and the associations and
experts with whom the NPM cooperated in various specialist areas.
The competent authorities of the State Party concerned shall examine the recommendations of
the national preventive mechanism and enter into a dialogue with it on possible implementation
measures.79
The English version of the Report has been submitted to the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of
Torture (SPT), the UN Committee against Torture (CAT), the Council of Europe Office in
Belgrade, he European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), the Association for the
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