Overview of the National Preventive Mechanism addressed the pool of observers that accompany forced returns executed by Frontex. Experts from the Austrian NPM also took part in the 10th European conference on health promotion in prisons that took place in Bonn in 2019 and focused on the topic of “Health promotion made easy – practical models for prisoners, officers and externals”. The current health care problems in European correctional institutions and the existing health promotion measures in prisons amongst others were the subject of discussion in the individual plenary sessions. In different working meetings participants discussed specific topics such as health problems in the detention of mentally ill offenders, women’s health in prisons, health and care insurance in prisons, and the inclusion of health problems in release management. 1.6 European conference on health promotion in prisons Report of the Human Rights Advisory Council The Human Rights Advisory Council met five times in plenary meetings in 2019. In addition to these plenary meetings, the Human Rights Advisory Council also held many working group meetings and prepared statements on the preventive protection of human rights as well as draft recommendations of the NPM. Furthermore, the Human Rights Advisory Council evaluated visit reports and analysed the resulting priorities. Constructive collaboration In the year under review, the Human Rights Advisory Council made statements of opinion based on material presented by the NPM on the following topics: Statements of opinion • Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for placing suicidal detainees in video-monitored inmate cells • Interim report on the topic of “Lock-up times in correctional institutions” • Barring orders and prohibitions to enter in-patient care facilities Working groups of the Human Rights Advisory Council dealt with the following topics in the year under review: Working groups • Barring orders and prohibitions to enter in-patient care facilities • Lock-up times in correctional institutions • Minimum standards for housing unaccompanied minor refugees • Mandate and working principles of the Human Rights Advisory Council • Notes on the visit reports of the commissions 20