CAT/OP/ROU/1/Add.1 - - - meeting with Mr. Tiberiu Trifan, State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, meeting with the purpose of involving the Ombudsman Institution in monitoring the return of illegal immigrants; meeting with the new General Director of the National Administration of Penitentiaries, Mr. Marius Vulpe (which in the meantime has been replaced) and Mr. Dan Halchin, Deputy General Manager of the National Penitentiary Administration, occasioned by the following issues: monitoring of the prisons by Domain visit teams On the prevention of torture in places of detention; Solutions to implement the recommendations contained in the Domain Visitation Reports on the prevention of torture in places of detention; The dissemination of the Law no. 35/1997, republished, with further amendments and completions, of other information (informative materials) regarding the attributions and contact details of the Ombudsman Institution Meeting with Mr. Dragos Pislaru, Minister of Labor, Family, Social Protection and the Elderly, with the occasion of discussing issues regarding the monitoring of the centers where the minors and the elderly are being detained. Correspondences were carried out with: The Association for the Prevention of Torture, which requested information on the activity of the National Torture Prevention Mechanism in the places of detention; The Vienna Institute for Human Rights and the European Law Academy in Trier on intensifying cooperation between the judiciary and the NPMs; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, regarding the monitoring of fundamental rights and freedoms of persons in psychiatric hospitals. The People's Advocate requested relations from the Ombudsmen in Europe on how the National Preventive Mechanism is organized and functioning within their institution, the positive aspects being used in the draft amendment to the Law no. 35/1997 regarding the organization and functioning of the of the People's Advocate Institution, republished. 9. Large-scale dissemination of the NPM Reports, elaboration and distribution of more material on the mandate of the NPM and its activities, raising awareness of OPCAT. On November 9, 2016, the Conference "OPCAT 10 YEARS OF PREVENTION OF TORTURE". The activity of the Department of the Prevention of torture in places of detention in the first years of exercising the powers of the National Prevention Mechanism took place at the Parliament Hall-Human Rights Hall ". The conference was attended by: ● representatives of public authorities (Presidential Administration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Government Agent for Human Rights, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Labor, Family, Social Protection and Elderly People, National Penitentiary Administration, Forensic Medicine); ● representatives of professional associations (National Union of Romanian Barriers, Romanian College of Physicians, National College of Social Assistants, Romanian Psychologists College, Life Quality Research Institute); ● representatives of non-governmental organizations. The themes of the Conference were: * "OPCAT 10 YEARS OF PREVENTION OF TORTURE". Domain activity on the prevention of torture in places of detention in the first years of exercising the powers of the National Prevention Mechanism ". * "Prevention of torture in places of detention in Romania", in connection with which representatives of public authorities, professional associations and non-governmental organizations sent messages and intervened. * "Domain Collaboration on Prevention of Torture in Places of Detention with Public Authorities, Professional Associations and Civil Society", topic on which: - 64 The representatives of the public authorities who have subordinate places of detention presented the measures ordered following the visits made by the Domain of Prevention of Torture in Places of Detention (NPM).