CAT/OP/ROU/1/Add.1 - Sheets – 29,875 pieces; Metal beds – 2,303 pieces. Para. 84 – Improving the food quality To improve the quality of food for inmates, the National Administration of Penitentiaries initiated a draft order of the Minister of Justice on increasing the financial value of food norm, in order to diversify the range of food products and to increase the financial value of food norms for pre-trial inmates, minors, convicted persons and sick inmates. The draft order is currently under examination within the Minisitry of Justice. Para. 85 – The control of the food and water quantity and quality, the hygiene and the cleaness by the medical staff The sanitary staff frequently verifies the hygienic conditions in the prisons and reports on the proven malfunctions to the management body, proposing measures to be taken. The prison director analyzes the reports and the chief doctor’s proposals and he decides the measures to be taken. In case the aspects proven are not of his competency, the presence of some specialists in public sanitary network is requested. The quality of the menus corresponding to each food norm is checked on a daily basis by a commission consisting of the prison unit doctor/nurses, shift chief who writes down the results of these controls in a registry and confirms that the food is good to eat. The food is given to then inmates within two hours from preparation. Also, a representative of the inmates, who is changed on a monthly basis, participates in controlling food process. The control aims the hygienic status of the kitchen building and checking the quality, the expiration dates and the manner in which the products are stored and prepared, the observance of the product circuit, so that the healthy and unhealthy phases of food preparation do not interfere. Also, they verify if the food samples are stored accordingly in the fridge within the 48 hours. The chief doctor notifies immediately the management staff of the prison in case of food hygiene deficiencies. The epidemiological risk situations are immediately notified to the areal coordinator and to the Medical Directorate within National Administration of Penitentiaries. 3. Confinement of prisoners Para. 88 – The time spent outside the detention cell The convicted persons serving the sentence in a maximum security regime are subject to some strict measures of guard, surveillance and escort and are accommodated, as a rule, individually, they work and pursue educational, cultural, therapeutic, psychological counselling and social assistance activities, moralreligious, school education and professional training activities, in small groups, in spaces especially designed inside the prison, under constant surveillance, according to the terms laid down by the Regulation for implementing the Law no. 254/2013. The inmates classified in a maximum detention regime who do not perform labour activities or do not participate in educational or professional activities, take part in leisure activities, educative, psychological and social assistance, sport and religious activities, within the limit of 3 hours daily, according to the provisions of the Regulation. In the light of the same Regulation, the inmates classified in a maximum detention regime who do not perform labour activities, do not participate in educative, psychological and social work activities or do not undertake school education and professional training have the right to have a daily walk of at least two hours, in special designed court yards outside. The inmates classified in a maximum 29

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