following the visit made during February 2018, as well as the proposals coming from the judges supervising the deprivation of liberty), which provides as follows: Art. 101, after paragraph 3, a new paragraph, paragraph (31), shall be inserted, with the following content: ʺ(31) Convicted persons diagnosed with serious mental illness may not be sanctioned for non-compliance with the prohibition provided in Art. 82 lit. ț)."- legislative amendment which has not been carried out so far. - centers for migrants: ● shortage of staff and especially medical and psycho-social staff (Accommodation Center for Foreigners taken into Public Custody Arad, Regional Center for Procedures and Accommodation for Asylum Seekers Galati); the impossibility of ensuring permanence in providing medical assistance at the Accommodation Center for Foreigners taken into Public Custody Arad - at the time of monitoring, the positions of doctor and nurse were vacant, and two of the 3 nurses were on vacation, respectively in sick leave; ● not all the fields were filled in the medical records and the records were not signed / initialed (Regional Center for Procedures and Accommodation for Asylum Seekers Galati); ● insufficient number of telephone sets installed for foreigners; ● lack of a stock of clothes for the foreigners accommodated; ● no connection to the cable television network of the TV sets in some accommodation rooms; ● regarding the disciplinary situation, in the Regional Center of Procedures and Accommodation for Asylum Seekers Galati, between May 15 and August 27, 2020, as a result of non-compliance with the obligations provided in the internal regulations of the center (ROI), 111 sanctions were applied. Given the large number of sanctions applied, as well as the fact that none of the sanctions imposed were challenged by the people accommodated in the center, NPM members recommended an information campaign on compliance with and application of the rules of the center. The Center communicated that asylum seekers are informed, at the time of accommodation, of the rights and obligations, prohibitions and disciplinary sanctions applicable during the accommodation in the center, and on the first working day after accommodation, the designated workers, together with NGO representatives carry out group and individual counseling and information activities on compliance and enforcement of (ROI) and the consequences of non-compliance. During 2020, NPM notified ANDPDCA, the School Inspectorate of Bucharest - Sector 2, DGASPC Sector 2 and the Gymnasium School no. 145 in Bucharest, regarding the difficulties encountered in the Regional Center for Accommodation and Procedures for Asylum Seekers Bucharest (notified to the NPM team during a visit in 2019) when appointing a legal representative, or concerning the accommodation of minors in residential centers under DGASPC (the center being forced to accommodate minors, including those under the age of 16), as well as to enroll the minors in school. ANDPDCA communicated that a draft Law was initiated to amend and supplement Law no. 272/2004 on the protection and promotion of children's rights, which brings a series of amendments and completions regarding the situation of minors seeking asylum or beneficiaries of a form of international protection, as well as the harmonization of the provisions of Law no. 272/2004 with those of Law no. 122/2006 on asylum in Romania, for example: adding this category of children to the categories of children benefiting from special protection measures and amending accordingly the provisions regarding placement; the obligation for the appointment, by the DGASPC, of a person to assist the minor asylum seeker during all legal procedures regarding the clarification of their situation, in order to ensure the premises for the observance of all their rights. Also, in December 2020, NPM sent requests to local authorities in the counties of Giurgiu, Maramureș, Suceava, Galați, Timișoara and Bucharest (counties / cities where centers for migrants are located): Public Health Directorates and City Halls (Bucharest, Giurgiu, Galați, Rădăuți, Timișoara, Șomcuta Mare), on the measures taken to ensure an adequate protection environment in migrant centers, as well as to ensure the placing into 12