17 In March 2017, Gergely Fliegauf, the Head of the Department, was elected member of the CPT by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe. 2.2. External experts In addition to the public servant staff members, I may also authorize, either permanently or on an ad hoc basis, other experts to contribute to performing the tasks related to the national preventive mechanism.52 In its report on the country visit to Sweden between March 10 and 14, 2008, the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture pointed out that “prevention necessitates the examination of rights and conditions from the very outset of deprivation of liberty until the moment of release.” Such examination should take a multi-disciplinary approach and involve, for example, the medical profession, children and gender specialists and psychologists in addition to a strict legal focus.”53 External experts contributing to the performance of tasks related to the NPM are selected in an autonomous way, from the roster of experts recommended by the members of the CCB, following consultations with the recommending civil organization. My Office employed the non-public-servant experts participating in the NPM’s visits on an ad hoc basis, using civil law contracts. Their activities54 and remuneration55 were based on civil law contracts and in accordance with the prevailing regulations on forensic experts. The experts issued written statements on confidentially handling any and all data and information learned in connection with performing their tasks, not disclosing them to third persons without my written consent, and not making any statements to the media and/or any third person. On some occasions, during the preparation of the visits, I also involved experts by experience, i.e., persons with practical knowledge of the operation of the place of detention to be visited. In 2017, the following experts contributed to the visits conducted by the NPM: 56 Ildikó Hegedűs, psychiatrist, psychotherapist; Krisztina Szegedyné Baraczka, psychiatrist, neurologist, forensic psychiatrist; Zsolt Petke, psychiatrist, addictologist; György Szekeres, psychiatrist, forensic psychiatrist, medical rehabilitator /psychiatry/; Ádám Lelbach, internist, geriatrician, gastroenterologist; Brigitta Baran, psychiatrist, neurologist, gerontologist, forensic psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and Gabriella Hartmann, dietitian. See Section 39/D(3) of the Ombudsman Act See Clause 36 of the Report on the Visit of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment to Sweden (September 10, 2008) at http://docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx?enc=6QkG1d%2fPPRiCAqhKb7yhsn8rMyk5N7hzMr42KObabvkcyRKUCd gSxYwGEBeOiTyM6pJ6V4RAqY76uSBiaxa85BLOwCe0MxtQsxriqg5%2b16z0YL0pCRIg2niSbiO83VEW 54 See Act XXIX of 2016 on Judicial Experts 55 See Minister of Justice Decree 3/1986. (II. 21.) IM on the remuneration of judicial experts 56 In accordance with Section 39/D(3) of the Ombudsman Act 52 53