CAT/OP/ROU/1/Add.1 People's Advocate Institution, republished, with subsequent modifications and completions and for amending some normative legal acts (Pl-x 257/2016), which was approved, with amendments, by the Committee for Legal Matters, Discipline, and Immunities of the Chamber of Deputies, but was rejected by the Chamber of Deputies. Currently, the legislative proposal is on the agenda of the Committee for Legal Matters, Appointment, Discipline, Immunities and Validation of the Senate (Law No. 566/2016) and the final vote will follow. The proposals for legislative amendment mainly concern: 58 - replacing the name of the Field on Prevention of Torture in Places of Detention with the name of National Prevention Mechanism against Torture for harmonization with the provisions of the Optional Protocol; - drawing up an annual report on the activity of the National Prevention Mechanism, separate from the Annual Report of the People's Advocate; - solving petitions on torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in places of detention, depending on the type of place of detention, by the other fields of activity of the People's Advocate Institution that play a reactive role. In cases considered by the People’s Advocate as exceptional, when it is necessary to involve specialists, he may order that the petitions or ex officio referrals be solved by the National Prevention Mechanism. In the case of the exceptions mentioned above, the Mechanism it will fulfil duties only in the field of preventing torture in places of detention by making regular visits to these places. The cooperation between the National Prevention Mechanism and the fields of activity of the People's Advocate Institution will be established by the Rules of Organization and Functioning of the People's Advocate Institution; - the inclusion in the category of places of detention subject to NPM monitoring the means of transport by ground, air, river and sea used for the transport of persons deprived of their liberty, including the verification of how the measure of removal under escort is carried out; - examining and capitalizing on the NPM reports submitted by non-governmental organizations, prepared on the occasion of the monitoring of reception conditions in the regional centres of procedures and accommodation of asylum seekers, as well as in the monitoring of the removal under escort; - the inclusion of express provisions regarding the prohibition of subjection to reprisals; no authority or official shall apply, allow or tolerate any sanction against any person or organization for communicating to the visiting team members any information. None of these individuals or organizations may be prejudiced in any other way; The National Prevention Mechanism will guide individuals who may be subject to retaliation after the visit to address the Fields of the People's Advocate Institution, depending on the type of place of detention, or to address the competent authorities depending on the nature of the retaliation, these petitions will be prioritized; - regulating certain safeguards for NPM members, namely: in exercising their duties, the members of the National Preventive Mechanism will benefit unconditionally from the guarantees and support of the authorities. The members of the National Preventive Mechanism are not legally liable for the opinions expressed or for the acts that they perform or documents they compile, in compliance with the law, in the exercise of the duties provided by the law. It is forbidden to confiscate or oblige to disclose confidential documents and information obtained by NPM during the visit;