26 The NPM representative took part in the training of teachers and had a role of a lecturer organized for the representatives of the Juvenile Penal Correctional Institution in Valjevo and Penal Correctional Home in Kruševac. On that occasion, compliance with the recommendations issued to the institutions through the reports on the visits to the NPM were presented. The web page of the NPM (http:∕∕npm.rs) contains news, reports on the visits and responses of the authorities regarding their compliance with the recommendation, as well as any other news regarding the NPM in Serbia, both in English and Serbian. 5.7. Cooperation with the UN Committee against Torture, UN SubCommittee for the Prevention of Torture and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture In the course of 2015, the Serbian NPM continued cooperation with the UN Committee against Torture, UN Sub-Committee for the Prevention of Torture and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture. By the end of 2014, the UN Committee against Torture sent the list of questions to the NPM containing questions concerning the implementation of the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in the Republic of Serbia. In February 2015, the NPM submitted to the Committee its observations68. Likewise, in its Conclusions regarding the Second periodical Report on the Republic of Serbia, the UN Committee against Torture stressed under the item 21 that the state is obliged to ensure efficient and independent work of the Protector of Citizens and to enable it to exercise its mandate, irrelevant of the fact whether criminal proceedings were instigated or not, and stressed its concern about insufficient funds and permanent staff of the Protector of Citizens so as to effectively perform the NPM mandate. Every year, the NPM submits to the Sub-Committee for the Prevention of Torture its annual report. Besides regular annual reporting for the year of 2014, the NPM submitted to the SubCommittee certain individual reports on the visits to the places of detention with the issued recommendations, translated into English, which were sent to the public authorities to improve treatment of refugees/migrants. In the course of the fourth periodical visit by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in the Republic of Serbia (from 25 May to 5 June 2015), members of delegation of the Committee met with the NPM representatives before the beginning of the visit, and they presented them the most important NPM findings, current state of affair and the status of persons deprived of their liberty in the Republic of Serbia. The Reports on the Thematic NPM Visits to follow the compliance with the recommendations of the European Committee contained in the Report on the Visit to Serbia in 2011, as well as in the previous reports (on the visits to Serbia in 2004 and 2007), together with the other information that were of importance for the work, the NPM submitted to the European Committee before their visit. The NPM representatives also took part in the concluding meetings of the Committee with the competent state authorities, where the preliminary findings of the visit were presented. At the end of their visit, a separate meeting between the members of the Committee and the NPM representatives were organized in the premises of the Protector of Citizens, where the main topics were authorities and competences of the NPM, cooperation with the competent authorities, as well as problems and challenges 68 Link of the report downloaded for the NPM web-page: http://www.npm.lls.rs/attachments/085_Observations%20on%20Implementation%20of%20the%20CAT.pdf