Report on the Performance of Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2016 Implementation of NPM recommendations During our follow-up visits to prisons in Zagreb, Rijeka, Varaždin and Split, Šibenik state and county prisons and state prisons in Glina and Lepoglava, we assessed, among other things, to what extent warnings and recommendations issued following our visits to penal institutions in 2015, had been implemented. ACTING OF COMPETENT BODIES PURSUANT TO RECOMMENDATIONS ACTING OF COMPETENT BODIES PURSUANT TO WARNINGS implemented 18% not implemented 70% under consideration 6% under implementation 6% implemented not 31% implemented 39% under implementation 27% under consideration 3% Out of a total of 18 warnings, seven were addressed to COPSD and 11 to penal institutions. Just like in previous years, recommendations that require considerable financial resources, agreement between two or more administrations or amendments to regulations, have not been implemented. Irrespective of this, high percentage of unimplemented warnings is worrying, especially because those issued in cases that may result in torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, additional violation of human rights of persons deprived of their liberty or may cause conduct contrary to the law. Out of a total of 112 recommendations, 34 were issued to the Ministry of Justice or COPSD (four recommendations, along with Ministry of Justice and COPSD, were also addressed to Croatian Health Insurance Fund and Ministry of Health), whereas 78 were issued to penal institutions. Ministry of Justice and COPSD acted in accordance with 15% of granted recommendations, whereas penal institution with 37%. On the other hand, Ministry of Justice and COPSD failed to implement as much as 42% of recommendations and penal institutions 37%. Even though as much as 58% of recommendations have already been or are currently being implemented, the fact that this is true of only 24% of warnings, is worrying. In addition, in their reports, COPSD and - although to a somewhat lesser extent penal institutions, have recently started to claim that 20 Even though as much as 58% of recommendations have already been or are currently being implemented, the fact that this is true of only 24% of warnings, is worrying.