containing a section of the NPM Report, specifying the successful implementation of the NPM's recommendations. In the European Newsletter no. 8 (July-September 2020) the contribution of the Romanian NPM was monitoring the observance of the rights of the elderly in penitentiaries, with clarifications of the conclusions resulting from the visits of NPM in penitentiaries. NPM Romania sent material for the December 2020 Newsletter, on the theme of social care services for the elderly. At national level, an article was published in the August Newsletter of the National College of Social Workers in Romania, on social workers during the pandemic. Meetings took place with non-governmental organizations (Organization for the Defense of Human Rights - Craiova Regional Branch; Pro-Democracy Association PiatraNeamț Ruhama Oradea Foundation, UCOS Sibiu, LADO Cluj, Association “Împreună pentru ei” Baia Mare, Association for Community Partnership Brasov, “Amuradia” Association Brașov, ASCA Harghita Association, Romanian National Council for Refugees) and participation in conferences / symposia / meetings organized by / together with them: Aspects regarding the observance of human rights in the conditions imposed by pandemics or special situations; Aspects of the collaboration between the NPM - Bacău Zonal Center and the PiatraNeamț Pro-Democracy Association, during the visits carried out in 2019; Monitoring of forced return missions. Meetings were organized with external collaborators (psychologists, social workers) on professional topics (national and international legislation on the prevention of torture, issues found during the NPM visits, regarding the provision of psychological / social assistance). Collaboration with SPT and other international partners Since the beginning of the pandemic, the SPT has requested information from the NPM on the measures taken on Part IV of the Advice of the Subcommittee to States parties and national preventive mechanisms relating to the coronavirus disease, adopted March 25, 2020 - measures to be taken by NPMs to continue to exercise their visitation mandate during this pandemic. Thus, as already mentioned, SPT promptly intervened, at the request of the NPM, in the exercise of its mandate, regarding the monitoring of Covid-19 hospitals. NPM also participated in meetings organized by other NPMs, for example the one organized by Serbian NPM on the treatment of people addicted to psychoactive substances in prisons; the NPM had a permanent collaboration and exchange of information, through the SLACK platform and by e-mail (for example, NPM sent information on the application of alternative means, used to monitor places of detention, to the Head of the International Relations Department and Organizational Development - Office of the Chancellor of Justice, Estonia). 21