3.1. The tasks of the Civil Consultative Body
and participate in conferences, workshops, exhibitions and other events
organized by the NPM.52
The 2016 Schedule of Visits was drafted by the Department’s staff members upon reviewing the suggestions of the CCB. I also took into consideration the CCB’s suggestions when I approved the schedule.
In order to employ external experts with proper expertise and practical knowledge, the NPM shall develop coherent and transparent rules of
procedure.53 Since, due to the lack of applicants, the statutory provision
stipulating the employment of two public servants with a degree in medicine could not be complied with, certain members of the Hungarian Medical
Chamber and the Hungarian Psychiatric Association participated as external
experts in the NPM’s inspections. When selecting external experts, I took into
consideration, in addition to the recommendations of the Hungarian Medical Chamber and the Hungarian Psychiatric Association, the relevant provisions of the legal regulations on the activities of forensic experts as well.54
I sent my reports on the NPM’s inspections to the members of the CCB, too.
In 2016, the CCB had two meetings, on April 19 and November 16.55
3.2.
Meetings of the CCB
The main topic of the April 19, 2016 Meeting of the CCB was the feedback paper
(hereinafter the “Document”) prepared by the designated members of Hungarian Psychiatric Association, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, Menedék – Hungarian Association for Migrants, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (hereinafter
the “Working Group”) on the following inspections conducted by the NPM:56
• Debrecen Guarded Refugee Reception Center,
• Juvenile Penitentiary Institution
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See Section 6 of Directive 3/2014 (XI. 11.) of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights on the
establishment and rules of procedure of the Civil Consultative Body assisting the National
Preventive Mechanism in carrying out its duties.
See Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereinafter the “SPT”): Analytical assessment tool for national preventive
mechanisms, (CAT/OP/1/Rev.1) Clause 16, Paragraph (e).
See Act XLVII of 2005 on the activities of forensic experts and the provisions of Decree 9/2006
IM of the Minister of Justice on the specialization of forensic experts and the related qualification and other professional requirements.
The documents related to the fourth meeting of the CCB can be found in my Office under file number AJB-2674/2016. The report on the meeting is accessible to the public on the NPM’s website.
The document “Comments by the Reviewing Working Group of the Civil Consultative Body on the
reports prepared by the National Preventive Mechanism” may be found in my Office under file
number AJB-2674/2016/23. The document is also accessible to the public on the NPM’s website as an attachment to the report on the April 19, 2016 Meeting of the CCB.
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