rights of mentally ill persons placed in institutions, which was adopted in the Parliament of Montenegro in July 2011. During the reporting period (22-24 January 2013) the follow-up visit was planned and carried to the Special Hospital for Psychiatry in Dobrota - Kotor. The aim of the follow-up visit to this Institution is to monitor and evaluate the level of compliance with the recommendations of the Protector, given in the Special Report. During the follow-up visit it was found that two recommendations, within the competency of the NPM, have not yet been fulfilled. Recommendations were given to the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Justice and the Health Institution Special Hospital for Psychiatry in Dobrota, and were related to the assessment of the justification of excessive stay of patients at socio-rehabilitation department and to the relocation of the court department. We recall that in the Special Report it was concluded: that appropriate mechanisms should be established to guarantee the most appropriate treatment of patients who are at the same time psychiatric patients, socially vulnerable and without family support. Their inappropriate and unnecessarily long stay in this institution (10, 20 or even 54 years) is not acceptable. They do not need intensive hospital treatment, but other sources of help and social protection. Also, that the formation of special services, counselling centres, mental ambulatories, day care centres and the similar, would be a good way to provide the necessary care for these persons. Science in this field indicates that people who have problems with metal health, recover better if they live in communities and participate in social relationships with families and friends, than those who are hospitalized in psychiatric institutions. In relation to the recommendation for separation of judicial department from the Hospital, the Protector recalls that in all neighbouring countries this department is separated from neuropsychiatric hospital and is placed in prison institutions. 4.2.7. National and international activities of the NPM On 13 February 2013, the Protector and his associates received the delegation of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), led by Ms. Haritini Dipla, Acting First Vice-President of the Committee, at the premises of the Institution. On that occasion he introduced the delegation of the CPT with the legislative framework for the prevention of torture and activities that preceded the establishment of the NPM. Representatives of the Protector as a National Mechanism for Prevention of Torture attended the meeting of representatives of NPMs of Albania, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina as an observer, which was held on 25-26 March 2013 in Belgrade, organized by the Protector of citizens and the OSCE Mission to Serbia. On that occasion Joint Declaration on cooperation of NPM Network of South-eastern Europe was made, and its text is integrally provided in the appendix of this Report. In organization of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro the study visit of the NPM of Montenegro to the Ombudsman of Spain was realised in period from 08-11 May 2013 in Madrid. The aim of the study visit was exchange of experience of two NPMs, as well as a joint visit to one of the institutions under the competence of the NPM of Spain, in Madrid. 42