In addition, the Chancellor of Justice considers international cooperation with other preventive bodies and relevant international organisations to be very important. The Chancellor has been an active member of the Council of Europe Network of National Preventive Mechanisms (NPM) against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment. During the reporting year, advisers to the Chancellor attended the following international events: −− J. Konsa attended the seminar „Ethics in security issues: the role of independent police complaints Commissions in Europe“ on 27–28 May in Paris. −− J. Konsa attended the seminar „Improving Conditions Related to Detention“ on 13–15 November in Strasbourg. −− K. Albi attended the seminar „Immigration detention in Europe: Establishing Common Concerns and Developing Minimum Standards“ on 20–22 November in Strasbourg. PART II PART III PART IV −− A. Aru, M. Sarv, K. Paron and A. Reinomägi visited child protection institutions in Iceland on 9–13 September, including the Barnahus support centre for sexually abused children, the Studlar centre for children with psychological and behavioural problems, and the Greiningar counselling and diagnostic centre for children with special needs. −− R. Järvamägi attended the training course „De-institutionalisation in Estonia – guidance by the European Commission and international practices“ on 19 September. −− R. Järvamägi and K. Ploom attended the training course „Self-employed guardians“ on 18 and 25 September. −− M. Allikmets attended the training course „Training on behavioural psychology – how to be a successful communicator. Coping with complex patients“ on 9 October. −− R. Järvamägi and M. Allikmets attended the training course „Mental disorders and recovery – how to understand and support“ on 21–22 October. −− K. Ploom attended the training course „Guardianship“ on 25 October. −− N. Parrest, S. Laos, M. Mikiver and J. Konsa visited the Parliamentary Ombudsman of Finland on issues of police law and data protection on 28–31 October. Inter alia, the visit focused on the ombudsman’s supervision of police activities and the law enforcement measures used by the Finnish police (e.g. direct coercion, forced sampling, sobering-up). −− K. Muller and R. Järvamägi attended the training course „Application of coercive psychiatric treatment“ on 15 November. −− M. Allikmets attended the Estonian Council of Bioethics conference “Accessible highquality health care – a dream or ethical imperative?” on 22 November. PART I CHANCELLOR OF JUSTICE AS NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM The Chancellor of Justice also received visits from the following foreign guests: −− Advisers Jennifer Croft and Vincent Graaf to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (HCNM) on 14 March. −− The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks on 26 March. In 2013, the Chancellor analysed the constitutionality of several legal acts with regard to the issues directly or indirectly related to the prevention of ill-treatment (e.g. constitutional conformity of the conditions of detention and internal rules in the expulsion centre; conformity of the requirement of minimum floor space of prison cells with the Constitution, the Imprisonment Act, Article 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and case-law of the European Court of Human Rights). In addition, the Chancellor expressed his opinion with regard to the draft regulation for amending the Minister of Social Affairs regulation No 58 of 30 June 2009 on „The health protection requirements for special care services and seclusion rooms“, under which the obligation to ensure the existence of a seclusion room would be maintained only for those providers of 24-hour special care services who provide the service to persons with unstable remission or persons placed in the establishment on the basis of a court ruling. The Chancellor admitted that not all the establishments offering 24-hour special care services necessarily have a need for a seclusion room. However, the Chancellor also pointed out that if service providers have to ensure a seclusion room only in case of need, 11