3.2. The meetings of the CCB 3.2. The meetings of the CCB The participants of the CCB meeting on 16 May 2018 were informed that on 8 December 2017 the UN sent its report (hereinafter the “Report”) to the National Preventive Mechanism on the visit of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (hereinafter the “SPT”) to Hungary in 2017. The NPM published the Report as well as its Hungarian translation on the Office’s website, and it was also transmitted to the participants of the CCB meeting. The National Preventive Mechanism was to react to the observations and recommendations of the Report in writing by 7 June 2018 the latest. Similarly to the Report, the NPM’s response would be public. As it was mentioned at the CCB meeting, the NPM published four reports after the last meeting of the CCB, which were also sent to those present. With that all the reports of the NPM were completed on its visits in 2016, and were made available on the website. The staff members of the Department have been working on the reports on the visits carried out in 2017. In 2018 the NPM visited three places of detention of the police so far. The Head/Deputy Head of the OPCAT Department informed the participants that the comprehensive report on the performance of the NPM’s tasks for 2017 would soon be completed, and the Parliament would discuss it within the framework of the annual report on the activities of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights. The Commissioner for Fundamental Rights noted that his annual report – with the exception of certain cases – is usually received with modest interest by the Members of Parliament. The focus point of the visits in 2018 was the means of communication. This criterion was selected on the basis of the petitions of a member of the Hungarian Bar Association, who called the NPM’s attention to certain problems that he/she had faced as a defender or as a legal representative. On 11 April 2018, the NPM held a workshop with the participation of the representatives of the CCB member organizations for non-lawyer experts taking part in the visits. The NPM appreciates all feedback on how the experts engaged as well as the civil society organizations delegating them consider the joint work, and what they suggest with a view to improving it. It was announced that the week after the CCB meeting the NPM and its staff would travel to Celje upon the Slovenian NPM’s invitation, where they would discuss the findings of the follow-up visit made to the juvenile penitentiary institution, and would then visit the local prison. On 21 June 2018 the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights would travel to Austria upon the invitation of the Austrian NPM. In the framework of the bilateral cooperations with the Austrian and Slovenian NPMs, visits 27