Overview of the National Preventive Mechanism access in detention rooms and sanitary facilities. The lack of adequate leisure activities for older persons in detention was also addressed as was health care. The Austrian NPM is an active host when it comes to bilateral exchange and Bilateral exchange invites colleagues from other NPMs to come and share experience in Vienna. The Serbian Ombudsman, Zoran Pašalić , came to Vienna with a three-person delegation in January. During this visit, there was an intense discussion on the Meeting with Serbian NPM in Vienna pending amendment to the Ombudsman law in Serbia, which will consider the Council of Europe Venice Principles for the first time. As in Austria, the Ombudsman in Serbia is also entrusted with the NPM mandate. There is a regular exchange between Austria and Serbia on this subject within the framework of the SEE NPM Network. Ombudsman Amon and Ombudsman Pašalić emphasised the desire to continue the longstanding cooperation between the two institutions with commitment. Ombudsman Amon paid a visit to his Slovenian colleague, Peter Svetina, in Visit to Slovenian NPM Ljubljana at the beginning of the year. They used the occasion to share their experience of the NPM mandate in particular, which both institutions exercise in addition to monitoring the public administration. Based on their common efforts to protect human rights, Ombudsman Amon and Ombudsman Svetina agreed to intensify their cooperation on future projects on the bilateral and international level. 1.7 Report of the Human Rights Advisory Council The Human Rights Advisory Council met five times in plenary meetings in 2020. Only two meetings could be held in person because of COVID-19. Constructive collaboration Two meetings were held online and one meeting partly in person and partly online. In addition to these plenary meetings, the Human Rights Advisory Council also held many working group meetings and prepared statements on the preventive protection of human rights as well as draft recommendations of the NPM. Furthermore, the Human Rights Advisory Council evaluated visit reports and analysed the resulting priorities. In the year under review, the Human Rights Advisory Council made detailed Statements of opinion statements of opinion based on material presented by the NPM and also on its own initiative. Most of these were published on the AOB website. A) Statements of opinion based on material presented by the NPM: • Barring orders and prohibitions to enter in-patient care facilities • Members of the visiting commissions entering railway tracks • Use of technical devices in correctional institutions 22