the provisions of Law no. 584/2002 on measures to prevent the spread of AIDS in Romania and to protect people infected with HIV or having AIDS disease, these persons benefit from monthly food allowances, the manner of granting them being provided in the Order of the Minister of Labor, Social Solidarity and Family no. 223/2006 for the approval of the Methodology for granting the monthly food allowance to adults and children infected with HIV or having AIDS disease, and check how it is used by those entitled. However, the methodology does not contain provisions regarding the situation when a person changes their address, the beneficiary's obligation being only to announce, within 5 days, any change in the situation that was the basis for granting the right to allowance. Although the penitentiary in which the persons deprived of their liberty were accommodated announced the change regarding the new address, the aforementioned Methodology does not provide for the automatic transfer of the allowance right to the new address, being required again the documents necessary to establish the right, at the new address. The reopening of the right to allowance is done according to Art. 5 of the mentioned normative act, which stipulates that “the monthly food allowance is established from the month following the registration of the application”, therefore a payment delay occurs; Through the visit report, it was recommended to the director of Mărgineni Penitentiary to inform ANP on this aspect, which should inform, in turn, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection which, as issuing body, can complete / modify the aforementioned Methodology, with the provision of maintaining payment of the allowance. Following the recommendation of the NPM, the director of the penitentiary unit informed the NPM team that a letter has been drawn up and sent to the ANP on this matter. • Hârlău Neuropsychiatric Recovery and Rehabilitation Center, Iași County operated with a number of 240 employees, with 66 vacancies, including: primary care physician, specialist, nurse, social worker, orderly, recovery teacher and psychologist. Following the recommendations of the NPM, reports were drawn up for the employment of staff, by the end of 2020, 31 people being employed. According to the answer received, the employment competitions are to be completed by April 1, 2021; • in the Bacău Penitentiary, the activity was provided by a number of 252 employees, but in the list of positions 80 vacancies were observed (16 officer positions and 64 agent positions), the largest shortage of staff being registered in the medical field, in the Psychosocial Intervention Directorate and in the operative sector. Also, during the visit, it was found that in some sections, the rooms were equipped with bunk beds on three levels and it was reported the presence of bedbugs, the existence of old furniture and mattresses, toilets with dampness and bad smell, as well as lack of spaces storage of personal goods and objects. As a result of the NPM recommendations, at the level of the National Administration of Penitentiaries, the employment procedure was carried out, through a competition, for medical, psychological and educational staff, as well as in the operative field. Regarding the improvement of accommodation conditions, until August 2020, current repairs and maintenance were carried out, in 12 detention rooms, 8 actions of punctual pest control and 2 actions of general pest control were carried out, mattresses were purchased, furniture for storing personal belongings was built, and in the draft budget for 2021 was provided for the replacement of beds. At the level of ANP, employment procedures were organized, through competition, for medical, psychological and educational staff, as well as in the operative field, for the Târgu Ocna Penitentiary-Hospital, where the greatest lack of staff was registered in the medical field (10 officer posts and 4 agent posts) and for the security of detention and penitentiary regime (2 officer posts and 5 agent posts), as well as for Botoșani Penitentiary, where there were 67 vacancies (25 officer posts and 42 agent posts), the greater lack of staff being in the medical 17