1.7. Human resources 1.7.1. Personnel In order to implement the OPCAT mandate, the AOB has received 15 additional permanent positions in order to fulfil its responsibilities. Since then, one permanent position was eliminated due to budgetary restrictions. The OPCAT secretariat is responsible for coordinating the collaboration with the commissions. It furthermore examines international reports and documents in order to support the NPM with information from similar institutions. The AOB employees who are entrusted with NPM responsibilities are legal experts who have experience in the areas of the rights of persons with disabilities, children’s rights, social rights, police, asylum and the judiciary. 1.7.2. Commissions of the Austrian Ombudsman Board To fulfil its responsibilities in accordance with the Act on the Implementation of the OPCAT (OPCAT-Durchführungsgesetz), the NPM must entrust the multidisciplinary commissions it has appointed with the tasks they must perform. If required, the regional commissions may involve experts from other specialist areas provided that members of other commissions are not available for this purpose. The commissions are organised in accordance with regional criteria. They each consist of eight members and one head of commission. Commission 1 Tyrol/Vorarlberg Commission 2 Salzburg/Upper Austria Head of Commission Verena MURSCHETZ Head of Commission Reinhard KLAUSHOFER Six regional commissions (until June 2015: Karin TREICHL) Members David ALTACHER (until June 2015: Susanne BAUMGARTNER) Members Doris BRANDMAIR (until June 2015: Markus FELLINGER) Michaela BREJLA Martin KARBIENER (until June 2015: Max KAPFERER) (until June 2015: Wolfgang FROMHERZ) Sepp BRUGGER Esther KIRCHBERGER Erwin EGGER (until June 2015: Lorenz KERER) Robert KRAMMER Wolfgang FROMHERZ Margit POLLHEIMER-PÜHRINGER (until June 2015: Monika RITTER) (until June 2015: Katalin GOMBAR) 15