Guidebook 319 Brinek, Gutachten als Schlüsselfaktoren im Maßnahmenvollzug (2019)p 8. 320 The investigations were based on Art B) paragraph 1), Arts XXIV and XXVIII of the Fundamental Law of Hungary on the rule of law, fair trial guarantees and the right of access to a lawyer. 321 Summary report on the project in Hungarian: „Emberi jogok kint és bent ombudsmani szemmel” – A büntetés-végrehajtás fogvatartottjainak, a külföldiek idegenrendészeti és menedékjogi fogva tartásának alapjogi összefüggéseit, valamint az ügyvédek és a hozzájuk fordulók jogait vizsgáló projekt, AJB Projektfüzetek, 2013/2, pp 131-147. 322 Report of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights (in Hungarian) in case No AJB3107/2012 and in case No AJB-3464/2012 323 Hungarian Commissioner for Fundamental Rights Annual report on the activities conducted in 2012, pp 248-250 (hereinafter: Hungary, Annual Report 2012). 324 Hungary: Act No. XC of 2017, the new Code on Criminal Procedure (CCP) entered into force on 1 July 2018. The amendment aimed at – among other objectives – the implementation of the relevant EU Directives. (See at CCP, Article 878) The New CCP sets forth that if the suspect or the formally not charged person who is suspected of having committed an offence wishes to retain a lawyer, or if the authority appoints a defence counsel, the authority shall immediately notify the defence counsel and shall postpone the questioning until the defence counsel’s arrival, but for a maximum of two hours. If within this time the defence counsel does not appear, or if – after consulting the defence counsel – the suspect agrees that the questioning can be started, the authority commences the interrogation. (See at New CCP, Article 387(3)) 325 Hungary: CCP, Article 46 326 Consultation with Greek NHRI, 17.12.2019. 327 Interview with NHRI representative 2, Austria, 30 April 2018; Consultation Workshop Budapest. 328 Final Conference Report, Vienna, 24 October 2019. 329 The Polish Commissioner’s motion to the Minister of Justice from 18 April 2017, KMP.570.3.2017.RK. 330 e.g. The Polish Commissioner’s motion to the Minister of Justice from 29 April 2016, II.5150.9.2014.MK; The Commissioner’s motion to the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 7 February 2017, II.510.1297.2016.MH; The Commissioner’s motion to the Minister of Justice from 18 April 17, KMP.570.3.2017.RK; The Commissioner’s motion to the Minister of Justice from 5 June 2017, II.5150.9.2014; The Commissioner’s motion to the Minister of Justice from 14 November 2017, IX.517.1268.2017.MM; The Commissioner’s motion to the Minister of Justice from 29 March 2018, IX.517.812.2018.MM; The Commissioner’s motion to the Prime Minister from 4 July 2018, II.5150.9.2014.MM. 331 The Polish Commissioner’s motion to the Minister of Justice from 18 April 2017, KMP.570.3.2017.RK. 333 Reply to the project survey, Croatia. 334 See Cerny and Krammer, Nachprüfende Verwaltungskontrolle und Präventive Menschenrechtskontrolle Kurzskriptum: Kurzskriptum zur Präsentation des Volksanwaltschaftsmoduls in der Polizeigrundausbildung [Lecture notes for the basic police training on the Austrian Ombudsman’s mandate] (Schriftenreihe der Volksanwaltschaft – Volume IV, 2017). 335 Carver/Handley, p 99. 336 Interview with NHRI representative, Poland, 29 June 2018; interview with the Bar Association, Poland, 12 June 2018. Further a conference on the general situation of vulnerable persons (people with intellectual or mental disabilities) detained in penitentiary institutions was organised and the procedural rights of vulnerable persons was one of the 144 FOOTNOTES several topics covered. Rzecznik Praw Obywatelskich (Commissioner for Human Rights), ‘Sytuacja osób z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną lub psychiczną w jednostkach penitencjarnych [The situation of people with intellectual or mental disabilities in penitentiary institutions]’ (9 December 2017) (hereinafter Commissioner for Human Rights, People with intellectual and mental disabilities (2017)). 337 Art 294(2) TFEU; Art 11(2) and (3) TEU. 338 European Parliament, Handbook on the ordinary legislative procedure, 2017, p.6. Wouters/Meuwissen/Barros, ‘The European Union and National Human Rights Institutions’ in Wouters/Meuwissen (eds), The European Union And National Human Rights Institutions (Intersentia 2013) pp 198 ff. 339 More: https://petiport.secure.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/home 340 Art 288 TFEU; Lloyd-Cape, pp 11ff. 341 Interview with NHRI representative, Slovenia, 23 May 2018. The Ombudsperson has not been involved in the transposition of the other Directives. 342 Art 258 and 259 TFEU. 343 The European Commission has published an online form for complaints that can be found here: https://ec.europa.eu/assets/sg/report-a-breach/complaints_en/index.html 344 APT, ‘Monitoring Police Custody: A Practical Guide’ (2013) (hereinafter APT, ‘Monitoring Police Custody’ (2013)); APT and PRI, ‘Video recording in police custody: Addressing risk factors to prevent torture and ill-treatment’ (2nd edn, 2015) (hereinafter APT/PRI, ‘Video recording’ (2015)); APT/PRI, ‘Pre-trial detention’ (2015); UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, ‘Human rights implications of overincarceration and overcrowding’, A/HRC/30/19, 10 August 2015. 345 Hungarian NPM, Az alapvető jogok biztosa, mint OPCAT nemzeti megelőző mechanizmus jelentése az AJB-496/2018. számú ügyben, 2018, p 23. 346 e.g. SPT, ‘Report on the visit of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment to Gabon’ (2015) CAT/OP/GAB/1. 347 National Workshop in Warsaw, May 2019; see also visit reports, e.g. NPM Visit Report from the Police station in Marki, KMP.570.1.2019.JZ, 10.10.2019, p 8. 348 Slovenian Ombudsman, Annual Report 2017, p 69. 349 APT/PRI, ‘Pre-trial detention’ (2015). 350 SPT, ‘Visit to Romania undertaken from 3 to 12 May 2016: Observations and Recommendations addressed to the State Party, Report of the Subcommittee’ (2018), CAT/OP/ ROU/1, para 44. 351 Austrian Ombudsman Board, Annual Report on the activities of the Austrian National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) 2017, p 165 (hereinafter NPM Annual Report 2017); Austrian Ombudsman Board, Annual Report on the activities of the Austrian NPM 2016, Page 150f (hereinafter NPM Annual Report 2016); Austrian Ombudsman Board, Annual Report on the activities of the Austrian NPM 2014, p 132ff (hereinafter NPM Annual Report 2014). 352 Austrian Ombudsman Board, Annual Report on the activities of the Austrian NPM 2015 (hereinafter Austria, NPM Annual Report 2015). 353 Austria, NPM Annual Report 2015, p140. 354 Austria, NPM Annual Report 2017, p 157 355 Austrian Ombudsman Board, Annual Report on the activities of the Austrian NPM 2018, p 158 (hereinafter NPM Annual Report 2018). 356 Austria, NPM Annual Report 2018, p 151 357 e.g. CPT, ‘Report on Slovenia’ (2017) CPT/Inf (2017) 27, para 19. 358 Slovenian Ombudsman, Annual Report 2017, p 155. 359 Poland, Annual Report 2017, p 43. 145