access to all information referring to the treatment of those persons as well as their conditions of detention;  access to all places of detention and their installations and facilities;  the opportunity to have private interviews with the persons deprived of their liberty, without witnesses, either personally or with a translator if deemed necessary, as well as with any other person who the national torture preventive mechanism believes may supply relevant information;  the liberty to choose the places they want to visit and the persons they want to interview;  the right to have contacts with the UN Subcommittee on Prevention, to send it information and to meet with it. In accordance with Article 21 para. 1 OP-CAT, persons who communicate information to the National Agency are not to be sanctioned or otherwise prejudiced in any way.  2.3 Provision with staff and funding The inadequate provision of the National Agency for the Prevention of Torture with staff and funding has already been discussed in detail in the previous Annual Reports. As stated in the Foreword, it also continued in the current period under review. The Federal Agency is funded from the budget of the Federal Ministry of Justice. The Federal Agency has at its disposal EUR 100,000 in funds per year. Euro 200,000 are available for the Joint Commission, provided by the individual Federal Länder in proportions determined by the Königstein Key. The budget of the National Agency makes it possible to appoint a maximum of three full-time research associates and one administrative assistant. 15