- solving petitions regarding acts of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in detention places, depending on the type of the detention place, being solved by the fields of activity of the People’s Advocate institution playing a reactive part. The National Prevention Mechanism will only undertake attributions in terms of preventing torture in detention places by performing regular visits to these places. Upon decision of the People’s Advocate Institution, the National Prevention Mechanism will also solve petitions or notifications ex officio, within its scope of activity. Cooperation between the National Prevention Mechanism and the fields of activity of the People’s Advocate’s institution will be established in the institution’s rules of organization and operation; - the inclusion in the category of detention places subject to NPM monitoring of terrestrial, airborne and river-based means of transport used to carry persons deprived from freedom, including those that are removed under escort, police departments, centres of accommodation for minor and adult disabled individuals; emergency centres for the reception of children; maternal care centres; residences for elderly people or other residential centres for elderly people; the external departments of psychiatric hospitals and internal or external psychiatric departments of general hospitals; - NPM using reports submitted by non-governmental organizations, drawn up as the conditions for acceptance of asylum applicants in regional centres for procedures and accommodation were monitored, as well as when activities of removal from escort were monitored; - exemptions of external collaborators from the procurement procedure through the Public Procurement Electronic System (SEAP); - including explicit provisions on the interdiction to apply sanctions, i.e. no authority and no officer will decide or enforce any sanction against persons or organizations, for having provided any information to members of the visit team. None of these persons or organizations can be otherwise affected; the National Prevention Mechanism shall guide the persons who have provided information to visit team members to inform the People’s Advocate Institution if sanctions are enforced; 11