Monitoring of the legislation of Ukraine, agency and interagency norms on observance of rights and freedoms of detained persons and prevention of torture, cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment took place throughout the year. Its outcomes pointed to the following issues that had already been mentioned in the NPM report in 2013: - rules and standards in the current Regulations on the procedure of holding of individuals detained by the State Border Service of Ukraine under administrative proceedings for violation of the legislation on the state borders of Ukraine and on suspicion of a criminal offence do not meet the current minimum standards for the treatment of persons taken into custody and, therefore, require revision; - there is no legal regulation of the list of disciplinary measures towards persons held in custody of the border agency, conditions and procedure for their application, as well as guarantees for prevention of torture during their application; - another remaining unresolved legal issue relates to the duty of public authorities to ensure proper conditions and vital needs (water, food, sleep, satisfaction of natural needs etc.) in transit zones of international airports for persons who were denied entry into the territory of Ukraine, whose freedom of movement in the transit area of such airports is limited until return to the country of departure. Observance of human rights and freedoms at the Ukrainian state border checkpoints During 2014, there were two monitoring visits to Kyiv and Lviv airports conducted to transit areas of airports for the purposes of monitoring observance of rights and freedoms of citizens at the Ukrainian state border checkpoints (in 2013 – one visit to the transit area of Kyiv airport). Monitoring results confirmed the urgent need to find solution to the lack of adequate conditions at transit areas of airports for persons denied entry into Ukraine 143