116 MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE: In pursuance of NPM recommendations concerning better awareness of guards in the sphere of prevention of ill-treatment PSAFU began to develop the necessary changes in the standards of military personnel training. No. 1775/ 24307); • amendments to Instructions on the procedure of punishment at the disciplinary battalion (approved by Order of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine on November 29, 2004, No. 567, and registered with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on December 10, 2004, under No. 1572/ 10171); • amendments to the Field Manual on the patrol and watch procedures of PSAFU (approved by order of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine on February 7, 2012, No. 62). Changes in the regulatory sphere include: • development of Instructions on the procedure and conditions of detention for military personnel taken into custody (approved by Order of the Minister of Defense of Ukraine on September 26, 2013, No. 656, and registered with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on October 16, 2013, under 2.6. Results of monitoring of custodial settings of the State Court Administration of Ukraine According to Art. 13 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner or Human Rights” NPM monitoring extends onto the rooms (premises) for criminal defendants (convicts) at appellate and local courts of general justice within the authority of the State Court Administration of Ukraine (SCAU). According to the official statistics from SCAU, in 2013 such premises were in use at 489 courthouses (27 appellate courts and 462 local general courts). Monitoring of such settings by NPM began in March 2013; in 2012 the courts were not visited. During the year NPM staff and civic monitors jointly visited 18 local courts (in Sumy, Mykolayiv, Odessa, Kherson, Luhansk, Chernihiv and Vinnytsya Regions and in the City of Kyiv) and 4 courts of appeal (of Sumy, Kherson, Luhansk and Transcarpathian Regions). At the beginning of the very first visit (to Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv, in March 2013) the court guards referred to