Annex I. History and legal basis 10.12.1948 Resolution of the UN General Assembly (Universal Declaration of Human Rights): incl. prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 10.12.1984 UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UN Anti-Torture Convention) 26.11.1987 European Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 18.12.2002 Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 10 December 1984 (OP-CAT) 20.09.2006 Signing of the Optional Protocol 26.08.2008 Implementation in domestic law through the approval act of the Bundestag 20.11.2008 Federal Agency created by the Administrative Order of the Federal Ministry of Justice 04.12.2008 Ratification of the Optional Protocol and nomination of Klaus LangeLehngut, Ltd. Reg. Dir., ret., as the honorary Director of the Federal Agency 01.05.2009 Federal Agency takes up its work at the headquarters of the Centre for Criminology in Wiesbaden 25.06.2009 Signing of the State Treaty to establish the Commission of the Länder for the Prevention of Torture by State Treaty of all Federal Länder 23./24.06.2010 Nomination of the members the Commission of the Länder at the 81st conference of Ministers of Justice 01.09.2010 State Treaty to establish the Commission of the Länder for the Prevention of Torture as well as the administrative agreement between the Federation and the Federal Länder on the National Agency for the Prevention of Torture come into force 24.09.2010 Official inauguration of the Commission of the Länder by the Hessian Minister of Justice Jörg-Uwe Hahn in Wiesbaden 83