Police detention centres aware of the books and sports mats stored in the detainees’ common rooms. In addition, there were generally only a few books (also in foreign languages) and hardly any games and magazines. On the monitoring visit to Bludenz police detention centre, all of the detainees praised the respectful behaviour of the staff and the range of games, magazines and books available at all times. It was also possible for the detainees to hold video phone calls on their mobile telephones in a cell under video surveillance. 2.6.3 Pending implementation of NPM recommendations As presented in the NPM Report 2019 (p. 151 et seq.), the NPM recommended the Federal Ministry of the Interior in May 2016 and in December 2017 to implement the standards resolved by the working group for living conditions in police detention centres. Contrary to the announcement by the Federal Ministry of the Interior made in the previous year, the promised release of the revised Directive on Workplaces (Richtlinie für Arbeitsstätten) failed to appear either in spring 2020 or by the end of 2020. The Ministry made the implementation of those NPM recommendations for which structural measures are necessary in particular dependent on this release. Adaptation of the Directive on Workplaces In June 2020, the Federal Ministry of the Interior reported about the conclusion of the content revision of the Directive on Workplaces; however, it also stated that final agreement with all of the departments involved is required. The Ministry had to postpone this agreement process due to the pandemic situation. The Ministry announced in December 2020 that the Directive on Workplaces was still being assessed but that the release thereof was planned for the first quarter of 2021. The repeated delay of the release of the Directive on Workplaces probably means that the construction of partition screens in the common shower rooms and the separation of toilets in cells for multiple inmates in all police detention centres will be implemented three years after the relevant standards have been agreed in the working group at the earliest. The NPM addressed the Federal Ministry of the Interior in 2020 regarding the topic of the lack of complete separation of toilets in cells for multiple persons on a monitoring visit to Salzburg police detention centre in 2019. The Ministry justified the structural deficit identified in four cells with the not yet completed plans for the complete renovation of the police detention centre. The Ministry explained that the detainees had rarely used opportunity to choose a single cell and that the police detention centre had always fulfilled this request. 138