have additional time for daily leisure activities, part of which should be devoted, if the juvenile so wishes, to arts and crafts skill development. The detention facility should ensure that each juvenile is physically able to participate in the available programmes of physical education. Remedial physical education and therapy should be offered, under medical supervision, to juveniles needing it. Taking care of physical and cultural development of the juveniles is a very important task for the juvenile establishments. On a basis of the information gathered, it may be concluded that in the visited establishments, the educational staff seeks to fulfil this obligation through organizing interest circles (eg. JDC in Mrozy, JDC in Falenica, JDC in Laskowiec), musical or theatrical groups (JDC in Pszczyna, JDC in Falenica), educational and sightseeing trips (JDC in Laskowiec), voluntary services (JDC in Pszczyna) or "clubs" (JDC in Studzieniec). An essential breach of the European standards with respect to the right to recreation and rest is limiting access of the juveniles to outdoor activities (JDC in Białystok, JDC in Laskowiec, JDC in Mrozy). The National Preventive Mechanism stresses that the juveniles should be provided with access to outdoor activities every day. The directors of the above-mentioned establishments informed the visiting persons of undertaking actions aimed at facilitating the juveniles access to outdoor activities. It should be mentioned here that on 11 February 2010, the Human Rights Defender, referring to previous correspondence on the lack of provisions providing the juveniles staying in the juvenile detention centres and juvenile shelters with daily access to outdoor activities, sent a letter73 to the Minister of Justice. He requested in it to provide information whether the actions announced by the Minister in that regard had already been taken. In a reply of 16 March 2010, the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice reported that the new solutions introduced by the ordinance of the Minister of Justice of 20 July 2009, which amends the ordinance of 17 October 2001 on juvenile detention centres and juvenile shelters are to have an influence, inter alia, on limiting the possibilities of the occurrence of extraordinary incidents which often are a basis for restricting access to walks and staying of the juveniles outside the buildings of the detention centre or shelter. This, in turn, should affect, wider than so far, access of the juveniles to this type of activity. Currently, on a basis of the abovementioned ordinance, the detailed rules of procedure, related to providing safety in this type of establishments, are being developed. In addition, at the Ministry of Justice, the procedures uniform for all detention centres and shelters, which will include the rules of the use of outdoor activities by the juveniles, are being developed.                                                                      73 RPO-597667-VII/10