Although it is still to be regretted that no observable progress was made within the framework of the European Union, it is to be hoped that in 2015 the newly elected representatives, as well as the new European Commission, will look into following-up the “Green Paper” considered by the Commission in 2011, in order to address issues which it considered to fall within its jurisdiction, with regard to custody on remand in particular. The celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the signature of the New York Convention against Torture by the departments of the Commission and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, in which the Contrôle Général took part, provided an opportunity for recalling the orientations taken for the promotion of the Optional Protocol. At the bilateral level, the Contrôle Général also increased the efforts undertaken in previous years with certain countries, such as Honduras, with which an exchange protocol, supported by the European Union, was signed. The inspectors of Honduras’ national preventive mechanism, accompanied by representatives of the APT, took part, with the teams of the Contrôle Général, into visits to places of deprivation of liberty. Exchanges were also consolidated with the European mechanisms, and with the institution of the Czech Republic in particular, with which the Contrôle Général was involved in working seminars, bringing together preventive mechanisms from Central and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Poland, and Georgia, joined by the Institution for the protection of human rights which exercises control of places of detention in the Slovak Republic). The Contrôle Général was also approached by the human rights Institution of Latvia in order to present some of the CGLPL’s results at a meeting intended to promote the signature of the Optional Protocol by the latter country. The Contrôle Général was also called upon for expert advice in 2014. The “Child Rights International” non-governmental organisation, in charge of drafting a guide concerning the inspection of places of detention of children on behalf of the European Commission, asked the CGLPL to be involved in its committee of experts, alongside representatives of the CPT and the chair of the SPT. In Tunisia, the Contrôle Général was moreover approached in order to help with the putting in place of a national preventive mechanism for this country. This cooperation resulted in the completion of training modules for future members of the inspection authority, which is progressively being put in place by the Tunisian State. Finally, the presentation of a proactive study is to be noted, with the national preventive mechanisms of the European Union, concerning the follow-up of recommendations, which will be the subject of a major international conference in Vienna, Austria in 2015. 39 As in 2013, it should be noted that greater raising of awareness among France’s representatives abroad would certainly make it possible to increase the scope and effectiveness of these meetings. However, the need to fit them into the normal framework of institutional activities means that excessive numbers of such meetings cannot be organised, as already written last year. 39 Study conducted with eighteen European Union national preventive mechanisms by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights (BIM Austria) and the University of Bristol (United Kingdom). 44