CAT: Poland should allocate the amount of financial resources requested by the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights to enable it to discharge its mandate, and increase significantly the resources provided to the National Preventive Mechanism in order to enable it to function effectively, hire the necessary specialized staff and to fully implement its mandate (…)4. SPT: The Subcommittee recommends that the State party allocate, as a matter of priority, the financial resources needed by the mechanism, as required by Article 18 (3) of the Optional Protocol and the Subcommittee’s guidelines on national preventive mechanisms (…)5. 4 Cf. Committee against Torture, Concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of Poland, 29 August 2019, CAT/C/POL/CO/7, Article 24(a). 5 Report on the SPT visit to Poland, CAT/OP/POL/ROSP/1, Article 20. 13