Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2012 7. Assessment of legal acts The obligation to issue opinions about legal acts, both applicable legal acts and drafted legislation, by the entity acting as a national preventive mechanism stems from Article 19(c) of the OPCAT. In 2012, opinions on 11 draft legal acts were issued, with no reservations voiced in 6 cases and comments presented in 5 cases. All opinions on draft legal acts were published on the website. Comments were made to the following draft legal acts: 1. draft Ordinance of the Minister of Justice on the methods of protection for the organisational units of the Prison Service; 25 2. draft Ordinance of the Minister of the Interior on the rooms for detained persons or persons brought to sober up, transition cells, temporary transition rooms and Police emergency centres for children, the regulations governing the stay in those rooms, cells and centres, and the method for processing images recorded in those rooms, cells and centres;26 3. draft Ordinance of the Minister of Justice amending the Ordinance on penitentiary measures in prisons and pre-trial detention centres;27 4. draft Act amending the Act on upbringing in sobriety and preventing alcoholism; 28 5. draft Act amending the Act – Penal Code and certain other acts.29 No reservations were made with regard to the following draft legal acts: 1. draft Ordinance of the Minister of the Interior on medical examinations of persons detained by the Police; 2. draft Ordinance of the Minister of Health on the method of using and documenting coercive measures and the assessment of the justification for their use;  http://www.rpo.gov.pl/sites/default/files/Wyst%C4%85pienie%20RPO-R-071-10-2012%20z%20 dnia%2013.03.2012%20do%20Ministra%20Sprawiedliwo%C5%9Bci.pdf 26  http://www.rpo.gov.pl/pl/content/wyst%C4%85pienie-do-ministra-spraw-wewn%C4%99trznychw-sprawie-opinii-do-projekt%C3%B3w-rozporz%C4%85dze%C5%84 27  http://www.rpo.gov.pl/pl/content/wyst%C4%85pienie-do-ministra-spraw-wewn%C4%99trznychw-sprawie-opinii-do-projekt%C3%B3w-rozporz%C4%85dze%C5%84 28  http://www.rpo.gov.pl/sites/default/files/Wyst%C4%85pienie%20RPO-R-023-3-2012%20z%20 dnia%2006.11.2012%20do%20Przewodnicz%C4%85cego%20Komisji%20Ustawodawczej%20Senatu%20RP.pdf 29  http://www.rpo.gov.pl/sites/default/files/Wyst%C4%85pienie%20RPO-R-023-4-2012%20z%20 dnia%20%2003.12.2012%20do%20Podsekretarza%20Stanu%20w%20Miniserstwie%20Sprawiedliwo%C5%9Bci.pdf 25 18