Activities during the period 1 January to 31 December 2018 Visits 1. The CPT organised 18 visits totalling 163 days during the year 2018. Eight of the visits (totalling 80 days) formed part of the CPT’s annual programme of periodic visits for 2018 and ten (83 days) were ad hoc visits which the Committee considered were required in the circumstances. Details of all these visits (dates and places of deprivation of liberty visited) are provided in Appendix 7. 2. 2018 was the first year that the CPT carried out only eight periodic visits, as opposed to ten, leaving more room for visits that are required in the circumstances (ad hoc). Periodic visits 3. Periodic visits were carried out to Albania, Andorra, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Norway, Romania and the Slovak Republic. The main objective of the visits was to review the measures taken by the relevant authorities to implement recommendations made by the Committee after previous visits to the countries concerned. To this end, the CPT examined the treatment and conditions of detention of persons held in police establishments and prisons. Particular attention was paid to specific categories, for instance, juveniles (Georgia, Hungary), immigration detainees (Norway and, for the first time, Albania and Georgia), remand prisoners (Czech Republic), segregated prisoners (Norway) and prisoners serving whole life and other long-term sentences (Hungary). For the first time, a nursing home for the elderly was visited in Norway. Other social care establishments (for persons with disabilities) were visited in the Czech Republic, in Hungary and in the Slovak Republic. In addition, delegations examined the treatment and legal safeguards offered to patients admitted on an involuntary basis in civil and/or forensic psychiatric establishments in almost all of the countries visited (Albania, Andorra, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Norway and the Slovak Republic). ► Page 9