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Abbreviations
CCB
Civil Consultative Body
Committee (CAT)
Committee against Torture
CPT
European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment
CRPD
United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
promulgated by Act XCII of 2007
Department
OPCAT National Preventive Mechanism Department
ECHR
European Court of Human Rights
ELTE
Eötvös Loránd University
European
Convention on
Human Rights
European Convention on Human Rights, signed in Rome on
November 4, 1950, promulgated by Act XXXI of 1993
FPMI
Forensic Psychiatric and Mental Institution
FPMI Decree
Minister of Justice Decree 13/2014. (XII. 16.) IM on compulsory
treatment, temporary compulsory treatment, and the tasks of the
Forensic Psychiatric and Mental Institution
HAoS
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
MoHC
Ministry of Human Capacities
MoJ
Ministry of Justice
NPM
National Preventive Mechanism
NUPS
National University of Public Service
Office
Office of the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights
Ombudsman Act
Act CXI of 2011 on the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights
OPCAT
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, promulgated by
Legislative Decree CXLIII of 2011
Place of detention
Any place under the state’s jurisdiction and control where persons are
or may be deprived of their liberty, either by virtue of an order given
by a public authority or at its instigation or with its consent or
acquiescence (Article 4 of the OPCAT)
Prison Code
Act CCXL of 2013 on the execution of punishments, criminal
measures, certain coercive measures and confinement for
administrative offenses