Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2017 Part III Other activities of the NMPT Assessment of legislative acts127 Assessment of legislative acts, both those in force and those at the drafting stage, is a form of preventing torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. The national preventive mechanisms’ power to submit proposals and observations concerning existing or draft legislation to relevant authorities is provided for in Article 19(c) of the OPCAT. In 2017 the NMPT submitted observations with respect to the following legislative acts: ƒƒ draft regulation of the Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy amending the regulation on social care homes, ƒƒ draft regulation of the Minister of National Education concerning public educational care centres, youth care centres, youth sociotherapy centres, special educational care centres, rehabilitation and educational centres and facilities ensuring care and education to pupils in the period of receiving education outside their place of residence. ƒƒ draft prepared by the Council of Europe concerning the establishment of principles on the detention of migrants. 127 All the observations have been made available on the NMPT website under the link Assessment of legislative acts 76