- accreditation and collaboration with non-governmental organizations in the field of human rights protection, also based on service agreements; - regulating guarantees for NPM members, i.e.: for the exercise of their attributions, members of the National Prevention Mechanism shall receive unconditional support and guarantees from the authorities. - proposal of the annual budget of the National Prevention Mechanism by the deputy of the People’s Advocate for the National Prevention Mechanism and its approval by the People’s Advocate Institution; - awarding a bonus for the staff performing visits to areas where factors may affect physical and psychological health and integrity; - ensuring the payment of transport, accommodation and meal expenses during the travels of the representatives of governmental organizations who are members of the visit team; - exemptions from the incompatibilities stipulated by Law no. 7/2006, republished, as subsequently amended and supplemented, for the specialized staff within the National Prevention Mechanism - physicians, psychologists, social workers, with a view to ensuring the continuity in the exercise of their profession. After the legislative procedure was resumed, the legislative proposal was debated and adopted by the Chamber of Deputies on 13.06.2018 and was subsequently submitted to the Senate. It was also adopted by the Senate on 15.10.2018, and was sent to the President of Romania on 24.10.2018, in order to be promulgated.The notification of non-constitutionality of the law for the amendment and supplementation of Law no. 35/1997 on the organization and operation of the People’s Advocate Institution, drawn up by the President of Romania, was registered on 12.11.2018, and the Plenum of the Constitutional Court debated on the objection for the non-constitutionality of the law on 12.12.2018, within the pre-promulgation control. The Constitutional Court decide to postpone the decision for 23.01.2019, and then for 30.01.2019. ► As for the attributions of the National Prevention Mechanism, we mention that Law no. 9 of January 5, 2018 on the amendment and supplementation of Law no. 35/1997 on the organization and operation of the People’s Advocate, a new field of 12

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