62 Visit from the European Committee for the ­Prevention of Torture (CPT) The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) visited Norway in the period 25 May–5 June 2018. This was the committee’s sixth visit to Norway. The CPT’s task is to prevent torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in places of detention, in accordance with the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, endorsed by Norway in 1989. The committee’s employs much the same methods as the NPM, its main tools are visits to places of detention and interviews with persons deprived of their liberty. NORWEGIAN PARLIAMENTARY OMBUDSMAN National Preventive Mechanism ANNUAL REPORT 2018 The committee visited several prisons, the immigration detention centre at Trandum, a psychiatric clinic and a nursing home. In connection with the visit, the NPM provided input to the committee on the basis of findings and experience from visits under its prevention mandate. We were consulted both before and during the visit. The NPM also took part in concluding meetings between the CPT and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security and the Ministry of Health and Care Services. The NPM also provided the committee with certain supplementary input after its visit. On the basis of the visit, the committee drew up questions and recommendations to the Norwegian authorities to prevent violations of the European Convention on Human Rights Article 3. The report and recommendations will be published in 2019. The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) visiting the Parliamentary Ombudsman. From left the Parliamentary Ombudsman Aage Thor Falkanger, Therese Rytter, head of the CPT delegation to Norway and Michael Neurauter, CPT Secretariat.