EN_CPT_AR.book Page 15 Monday, October 25, 2010 5:14 PM Activities during the period 1 August 2009 to 31 July 2010 21. The two standing subgroups of the CPT, the Jurisprudence Group and the Medical Group, have continued to meet on the eve of each plenary meeting. The Jurisprudence Group’s terms of reference are to advise the CPT on developments, innovations and possible inconsistencies in the Committee’s standards as reflected in visit reports and to identify areas where there is room for development of those standards. The Medical Group examines substantive issues of a medical nature related to the CPT’s mandate and organises training sessions concerning the specific tasks that medical members of visiting delegations are required to perform. 22. Ad hoc working groups have been examining the topics of electrical discharge weapons and of prisoners’ contacts with the outside world. The substantive section of this General Report (see paragraphs 65 to 84) is the initial outcome of the work of the first-mentioned group. Contacts with other bodies 23. The CPT’s President took part in the second informal meeting of the Council of Europe’s monitoring bodies held on 19 March 2010, with the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Ministers’ Deputies and the Chairs of the GR-H and GR-J Rapporteur Groups, and the Committee fully subscribes to the conclusions from that meeting. The CPT remains firmly committed to promoting synergy with other bodies, both within and outside the Council of Europe. 24. The CPT’s President was pleased to have been given the opportunity to address the 15th Council of Europe Conference of Directors of Prison Administration organised in Edinburgh in September 2009. Further, the CPT has been contributing to the work of Council of Europe committees examining subjects linked to its mandate, such as the Committee of Experts on Impunity. As indicated in its comments on Parliamentary Recommendation 1900 (2010), the CPT would also be ready to participate in the work of any expert committee entrusted with preparing European rules on minimum standards for conditions of detention of irregular migrants and asylum seekers. As in previous years, regular contacts have been maintained with the Commissioner for Human Rights and members of his staff on matters of common interest. 15