CAT/OP/ROU/1/Add.1 services is also envisaged, in particular by supplementing human resources and improving working conditions, in the light of statistical data on the evolution of the number of persons under the surveillance of probation services in the last five years (see the answer provided above at the recommendation of the paragraph 34). In July 2016, the Ministry of Justice adopted (together with the National Administration of Penitentiaries) an Action Plan aiming to improve the conditions of detention and to diminish the overcrowding phenomenon. On the basis of the Action Plan, the National Administration of Penitentiaries initiated measures to increase and modernize accommodation capacity, following that, by the year 2020, the penitentiary system will no longer have a shortage of accommodation. On 27th of June 2017, the shortage of accommodation, for a space of 4 square meters per detainee, was 7,955 accommodation places. The Action Plan on improving the condition of detention provides the expansion of accommodation capacity with 10,895 accommodation places. The Action Plan includes the construction of two new penitentiaries, the date of putting into service is 2021. The administrative measures are accompanied by the promotion of normative acts that, at the time of entry into force, will bring a reduction of the overcrowding phenomenon: - - Draft Law on pardoning of punishments and educational measures depriving of liberty, under debate at the Chamber of Deputies (the decision-making chamber of the Romania’s Parliament); Law no. 169 of 14.07.2017 amending and supplementing Law no. 254/2013 on the execution of custodial sentences and of measures involving deprivation of liberty ordered by the judicial bodies during criminal trial, which introduces a compensatory day-earnings mechanism for the execution of a custodial sentence in inappropriate conditions (published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, No 571 of 18.07.2017). The Romanian Government reaffirms its commitment to continue its efforts to remedy the situation on detention conditions in the Romanian penitentiary system in order to comply with the standard imposed by the European and international instruments in the field. 2. Material conditions, hygiene and sanitation Para. 80 – Detention room facilities In accordance with the Annexes to the Regulation on the security of the detention places subordinated to the National Administration of Penitentiaries, approved by the Minister of Justice Order no. 1676/C of 24th of June 2010, the rehabilitation and endowment of the rooms accommodating inmates involve various elements depending on the prison regime of the detention room. Of these elements, we can identify the following: heater, barred window, console-type reinforced concrete table or foldaway table, metallic chair built in the floor or plastic chairs, couchette-like bed or bunk beds, storing alcove or space, hall stand, TV, interphone, wire broadcasting system, shower and showering tub, curtains, wash basin and one-piece toilet, door or grating metallic door, shelves. We emphasize that the analysis results of drinkable water in the 7 visited units were and still are under normal parameters, being in compliance with the admitted limits, which are established by means of periodical analysis of water probes in authorized laboratories outside the prison system. Para. 81 – The food 26

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