47 self-aggression acts, considered serious disciplinary misconduct and sanctioned, with the CPT's recommendation not to sanction the self-aggression acts anymore. The CPT emphasized (including on the occasion of the periodic visit to Romania in 2014) that such acts often reflect the suffering that the detainees in question are experiencing or the problems and conditions of a psychological or psychiatric nature. Accordingly, such acts should be approached from a therapeutic point of view rather than punitive and recommended the modification of the legal provisions accordingly (Country Report, paragraph 115). Following the recommendation of the People's Advocate (Recommendation no. 34/2019), the management of the National Administration of Penitentiaries informed us that they sent to the Ministry of Justice a draft law for amending and completing Law no. 254/2013 regarding the execution of the punishments and measures of deprivation of liberty ordered by the judicial bodies during the criminal trial, according to which, at Art. 101, after para. (3), a new paragraph is inserted, para. (31), with the following content: "(31) The convicted persons diagnosed with serious mental illnesses cannot be sanctioned for non-observance of the prohibition provided in Art. 82 letter. ț).” Other proposals: ► Establishment of detention centers and preventive arrest of own medical offices (as in penitentiaries). Currently, most centers cannot provide, according to the law2, medical assistance (primary, emergency and specialized) to persons deprived of their liberty, at their request or whenever it is necessary, because there are no medical offices inside them. ► the introduction of the standardized forms for the requests made by the persons guarded by the detention and preventive detention centers, forms that are self-copying, so that the guarded persons will receive a copy according to the requests made to the staff of the center, at the moment of their formulation, and can prove that have submitted / registered the application. Thus, the possible abuses by the administration of the centers can be avoided (for example: the applications are not registered and filed in the application file of the guarded persons). ►complete Law no. 35/1997, republished, in the sense of providing for the publication of the recommendations of the People's Advocate formulated in emergency regime, in case of finding serious violations of human rights, in the Official Journal, similar to the situation existing in France, where the General Controller of the places where people are deprived of their liberty (Contrôleur general des lieux de privation de liberté - CGLPL) publishes Emergency Recommendations in the Official Journal of the French Republic (according to the law for the establishment of the CGLPL of October 30, 2007, Art. 9). Actions to promote the duties of the Department for the prevention of torture in places of detention (NPM), participation in conferences, domestic and international symposiums, staff training In order to increase the awareness of the authorities that have subordinated units subject to NPM monitoring, regarding the prevention of torture and ill-treatment, the members of the NPM carried out an extensive activity of publicizing in 2019. During the events were presented: the NPM Activity Report for the year 2018; concepts such as human dignity, torture, inhuman treatment, degrading treatment and the prevention of torture; legislation 2 Art. 71 paragraph (1) and para. (2) of Law no. 254/2013 – the right to medical assistance, treatment and care of the convicted persons is guaranteed. PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE ANNUAL REPORT 2019