At the end of 2020, the National Preventive Mechanism started working on the annual report. On November 13, 2020, a letter N03-3/113487 was sent from the Public Defender's Office to the Special Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice, requesting information on the implementation of the recommendations given in the 2019 report of the National Preventive Mechanism, but they did not respond to the letter. The reply was also not provided for most of the letters8 sent in November and December 2020. This has significantly hindered the process of various data-analysis and assessment of the implementation of recommendations. In a letter of October 16, 2020, the Deputy Public Defender offered the General Director of the Special Penitentiary Service to hold a face-to-face or remote (online) working meeting where representatives of the Special Penitentiary Service and the National Preventive Mechanism would discuss the recommendations in a working format. However, no response has been received. Ministry of Inernally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia In 2020, monitoring visits to psychiatric institutions were conducted safely, without restrictions and barriers. A collaborative environment was created for the special prevention group. During the visits, the group received the necessary information in full and talked to the beneficiaries in psychiatric institutions in a confidential environment without delay. The Ministry provided us with the requested information in a timely manner. The readiness of the Ministry to provide the Public Defender with information on the implemented/planned reforms in the field of mental health should be positively noted. In addition, the National Preventive Mechanism had periodic communication with various representatives of the Ministry. Despite the abovementioned, the systemic recommendations issued by the Public Defender to psychiatric institutions were not implemented during the year. Cooperation with the State Inspector’s Service A two-day working meeting was held on February 21-22, 2020 between the representatives of the National Preventive Mechanism and the State Inspector's Service. During the meeting, various issues of cooperation between the Public Defender's Office and the Inspector's Service were discussed. Cooperation with the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development Cooperation with the National Tourism Administration of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia should be positively assessed. In the framework of remote monitoring of the quarantine areas, in case of identification of problems of quarantined persons by a special prevention On 22 December, 2020 the letter N03-3/12560 was resent but no response was received. For example, the letter N03-2/12933 of the Public Defender's Office of December 30, the letter N 03-6/11346 of November 13, the letter N03-6/11167 of November 10, the letter N 03-6/11166 of November 10, the letter N03-1/11142 of November 9, the letter N 03-3/12392 of 15 December, the letter N03-3/12391 of 15 December. 7 8 13