should provide both the required human resources and suitable funding for the efficient operation of NPM by supplying a specific budget line and by ensuring NPM’s institutional autonomy of using its own resources. Funds should also be predictable and allow NPM to plan its activity and visits beforehand, as well as the Plan of collaboration with other partners. - SPT welcomes the cooperation between NPM and civil society organizations. The subcommittee recommends that the state party should encourage NPM to have a more direct and independent involvement with civil society organizations, including, at least, an enhanced involvement thereof with NPM visits, by drawing up reports and engaging in dialogues with authorities. - state authorities and NPM should engage in a productive and continuous process of dialogue, so as to implement NPM recommendations. SPT recommends that the state party should publish and disseminate annual NPM reports on a wide basis. SPT recommends that the state party should introduce an institutional forum for the discussion and follow-up of annual NPM reports. It also recommends that NPM, in cooperation with places of deprivation from freedom, should initiate follow-up procedures. - it is crucial that NPM should develop and establish a clear vision of its approach on prevention of torture and have comprehensive strategies for the fulfilment of its preventive mandate. In order to avoid possible confusions and overlaps of mandates, the People’s Advocate Institution should make a clear distinction between the mandate of NPM and its other functions as an ombudsman.Individual petitions should be solved by the People’s Advocate Institution and should not be included in the NPM mandate. SPT underlined that NPM should supplement, not replace the existing supervision systems in Romania. NPM and the People’s Advocate Institution should clearly separate their mandates, so that each performs the activities of its mandate in an efficient manner. - the National Prevention Mechanism should focus not only on visiting places where persons are deprived from freedom, but on other prevention activities as well; it recommended to draw up an annual plan that includes all preventive activities, 25