24 3. Cooperation between the NPM and civil society organizations • Disability Unit of the Platán Home for the Elderly of the Directorate of Health and Social Care Institutions • Closed Psychiatric Ward of the Merényi Gusztáv Hospital premises of the Psychiatric and Addiction Treatment Center of the Unified Szent István and Szent László Hospital and Outpatient Care Clinic • Home for Children with Special Needs of the Károlyi István Children’s Center. According to the Document, the diverse thematic structure of the reports reviewed derives from the diverse functions of the institutions concerned and the diverse nature of the issues uncovered. The Working Group made no critical remarks regarding the thematic structure of the reports, the elaborateness of the individual chapters, the identification and accurate recording of the deficiencies found in the institutions and the anomalies related to fundamental rights. According to the Working Group, in order to remedy problems falling under the NPM’s competence and increase the efficiency of efforts aimed at enforcing the OPCAT’s provisions, it is of prime importance to make clear for the readers the co-relation between the conditions found and problems uncovered in the institutions and torture, inhuman or degrading treatment. Thus, it can be ensured that the main objective of preventing inhuman treatment would not get lost between the lines. However, the reports reviewed presented certain facts, conditions, and problems uncovered at the inspected place of detention in a way that had not made clear their connection to the primary objective, the prohibition of inhuman, degrading treatment. According to the Working Group’s suggestion, if the NPM, in addition to the primary objective of preventing degrading treatment, intends to pursue secondary, tertiary objectives as well, those objectives should be pointed out at the report’s beginning, and–later on–problems should be identified, and recommendations should be made based on these objectives. It could facilitate the long-term, effective exercise of the NPM’s powers of inspection, if the focus of inspection was clear for both the inspected places of detention and the authorities concerned, and if it could be known beforehand that the elimination of which problems and the implementation of which recommendations would be in the focus of possible follow-up visits. Accurate and reliable recording of the circumstances experienced during the visits is of key importance from the aspects of the NPM’s efficient operation. According to the Document, most of the reports reviewed met this requirement. The Working Group suggested that, in the future, too, the NPM should record the conditions and events in the inspected institutions as thoroughly as before. However, the Working Group concluded that, in some reports, the actual gravity of the described problem was not in propor-

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