ed, convicted persons, persons in psychiatric facilities, old people’s and children’s homes shall be confidential. Any kind of eavesdropping and surveillance shall be prohibited.’ RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE MINISTER OF CORRECTIONS OF GEORGIA: • To make a legislative amendment to the Imprisonment Code to the effect of inserting express reference to the confidentiality of the meetings of the Public Defender of Georgia/members of the Special Preventive Group with remand/ convicted persons as well as prohibition of any kind of wiretapping or surveillance; to submit the draft amendment to the Government of Georgia for its initiation in the Parliament of Georgia; • To amend the Order issued by the Minister of Corrections approving the Procedure on Surveillance and Control through Visual and/or Electronic means, as well as the Storage, Deleting and Destroying of the Recordings to the effect of inserting express reference to the confidentiality of the meetings of the Public Defender of Georgia/members of the Special Preventive Group with remand/ convicted persons as well as prohibition of any kind of wiretapping or surveillance; • To amend the Order issued by the Minister of Corrections approving the Procedure on Surveillance and Control through Visual and/or Electronic means, as well as the Storage, Deleting and Destroying of the Recordings to the effect of adding toilets in cells to the list of places where surveillance is prohibited; • To draft legislative amendment to the Imprisonment Code to the effect of inserting express prohibition of surveillance in toilets in cells; to submit the draft amendment to the Government of Georgia for its initiation in the Parliament of Georgia; • To amend the wording of the Ministerial Order approving the Procedure on Surveillance and Control through Visual and/or Electronic means, as well as the Storage, Deleting and Destroying of the Recordings to the effect of providing information about the circumstances warranting the necessity and indispensability of surveillance and control through visual and/or electronic means; • To take all reasonable measures to ensure that surveillance through electronic means is conducted only in those cases where other measures proved to be ineffective and for the duration strictly necessary in view of particular circumstance; also to ensure that the decisions on conducting surveillance through electronic means are adequately reasoned; and • To determine by a relevant order a reasonable time (no less than 10 days) for storing the recordings of video surveillance and ensure unimpeded access of the members of the Special Preventive Group to these recordings. NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM (NPM), 2016 47