$FWLYLWLHVGXULQJWKHSHULRG$XJXVWWR-XO\ Many of the issues concerned were subsequently explored in depth at the seminar on “Improving Detention Conditions through Effective Monitoring and Standard Setting”, organised in Antalya from 17-18 March 2011 within the framework of the Turkish Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers. The CPT was closely involved in the organisation of that seminar, the proceedings of which are available at http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/prisons/Antalya_seminar_en.asp. 13. On 9 March 2011, the CPT held an exchange of views with the Parliamentary Assembly member Jean-Charles Gardetto, concerning his report on “Strengthening torture prevention mechanisms in Europe”. The CPT is grateful to Mr Gardetto, and to the Parliamentary Assembly as a whole, for the support for the Committee’s activities manifested in that report and in the Resolution and Recommendation on the same subject subsequently adopted by the Assembly. 14. Regular contacts have been maintained with the Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg, and members of his Office on matters of common interest, and the CPT continues to seek synergy with other parts of the Council of Europe. Specific reference should be made to the increased participation of CPT members in activities of the Pompidou Group as well as those of the European NPM Project, which is promoting cooperation between the national preventive mechanisms (NPMs) progressively being set up in Europe under the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture. 15. Deepening cooperation with the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) remains a top priority, and for this purpose the CPT had a lengthy exchange of views on 6 July 2011 with representatives of the SPT, including its Chairperson, Malcolm Evans, and Vice-Chairperson, Zdenek Hájek. The CPT is also engaging with the NPMs that have already been set up; the Committee’s delegations had close contacts with the mechanisms concerned during the periodic visits to France, Germany, Moldova and Spain as well as during the ad hoc visit to Albania. And the setting up of NPMs was discussed with the national authorities during the periodic visits to Romania and Serbia. Reference should also be made to the CPT’s exchange of views on 11 November 2010 with the outgoing UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak.