Activities during the period 1 August 2013 to 31 December 2014 Visits 1. The CPT organised 25 visits totalling 226 days during the 17-month period covered by this General Report.1 Fourteen of the visits (totalling 151 days) formed part of the CPT’s annual programmes of periodic visits for 2013 and 2014, and eleven (75 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. Periodic visits 2. The 14 periodic visits were carried out to Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Georgia, Ireland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” and Ukraine. 3. The situation in a broad range of places of deprivation of liberty was examined in each of these countries. It should be noted that CPT visiting delegations are paying increased attention to the treatment and conditions of detention 1. The Committee has decided that future general reports on its activities should cover calendar years. As a transitional measure, the 24th General Report on the CPT’s activities covers the period from 1 August 2013 to 31 December 2014. of juveniles; the situation of this particularly vulnerable category of persons was explored in detail during many of the visits (in particular, in Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Ireland). Further, in several countries (e.g. Albania, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and Ukraine) the CPT examined the treatment, regime and security measures applied to lifesentenced prisoners and inmates held in high-security units. Particular attention was paid to the treatment of persons detained under aliens legislation in a number of other countries (including Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland and “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”). The issue of legal safeguards surrounding involuntary placement in psychiatric establishments was also examined in detail in the course of many of the visits (for instance, in Albania, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Georgia, Romania and “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”). 4. In line with standard practice, the CPT announced its programme of periodic visits for the following year. In the course of 2015, the Committee intends to examine the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty in the following ten countries: Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Malta, the Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Sweden and Switzerland. ► Page 9