Committee against Torture, Subcommittee on Prevention, European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, as well as Association for the Prevention of Torture and requested them to provide recommendations. The received recommendations have been duly summarized and adequately used in the Commissioner’s activity as the NPM and in the preparation of this or another project. Along with the above mentioned, it should also be noted that numerous inquiries received from various international organizations and prominent experts in the field of combating torture with regard to the Commissioner’s NPM activities have been thoroughly responded to. When speaking about the international cooperation of the Commissioner as the NPM, it should be emphasized that the Commissioner has already become a member of the Council of Europe Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs and the Network of European NPMs organized by the Association for the Prevention of Torture. The network has been established within the project of the Council of Europe aimed at setting up an active network of the European NPMs and improving combating torture in the countries that are members of the Council of Europe, as well as promoting active cooperation between the NPMs and relevant international bodies. It is planned to organize a series of events that will ensure the organization of the functioning of the NPMs at a higher level through the network. At the “First Meeting of the European NPM Network”, which was organized in Strasbourg, France on 05 November 2009 by the Council of Europe Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs and the Association for the Prevention of Torture and attended by V.Maharramov and R.T.Samadov from the NPM Group as well, the establishment and development of NPMs, problems and perspectives, preparation of annual reports and information to be necessarily included in reports, aims of the establishment of the network, and steps to be taken to establish mutual cooperation were discussed. Later, R.T.Samadov, member of the NPM Group, was appointed a contact person for that network by the decision of the Commissioner and he took part at the first meeting of the contact persons of the network concerned, which was held in Padua, Italy on 27-28 January 2010. 100