2 History and legal basis 10 December 1948 Resolution of the UN General Assembly (Universal Declaration of Human Rights): incl. prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment 10 December 1984 UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UN Anti-Torture Convention) 26 November 1987 18 December 2002 European Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 10 December 1984 (OP-CAT) 20 September2006 26 August 2008 20 November 2008 4 December 2008 1 May 2009 25 June 2009 23/24 June 2010 Signing of the Optional Protocol Implementation in domestic law through the approval act of the Bundestag Federal Agency created by the Administrative Order of the Federal Ministry of Justice Ratification of the Optional Protocol and nomination of the honorary Director of the Federal Agency Federal Agency takes up its work at the headquarters of the Centre for Criminology in Wiesbaden Signing of the State Treaty to establish the Joint Commission for the Prevention of Torture by State Treaty of all Federal Länder Nomination of the members the Joint Commission at the 81st conference of Ministers of Justice State Treaty to establish the Joint Commission for the Prevention 1 September2010 of Torture as well as the administrative agreement between the Federation and the Federal Länder on the National Agency for the Prevention of Torture come into force 24 September2010 Official inauguration of the Joint Commission by the Hesse Minister of Justice Jörg-Uwe Hahn in Wiesbaden 92