Upon the Commissioner’s initiative, the Prime Minister of Ukraine created an inter-agency working group on the protection of rights and freedoms of convicted and detained persons that take part in court hearings. The group was created with the purpose of ensuring observance of the rights and freedoms of detained persons, in particular during convoying by railway or automobile transport. The group includes representatives of the Secretariat of the Commissioner for Human Rights, Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Government Agent before the European Court of Human Rights, the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine, the State Court Administration of Ukraine, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, the Department of Public Safety of the MIA of Ukraine, and the Convoy Department of the Main Directorate of the National Guard of Ukraine. A regular meeting of the inter-agency group took place on 24 October 2014. It included, in particular, discussion of introducing unified standards on convoying and equipment of special vehicles in accordance with international standards. In addition, participants discussed a possibility of organizing convoying of convicted and detained persons exclusively by automobile transport. In addition, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine, the State Railway Administration “Ukrzaliznytsya” and the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine were offered to review the possibility of including 48