Commissioner, prepare and implement action plans in different directions, and present to the Commissioner drafts of proposals and recommendations to submit to relevant bodies. The Commissioner strives to constantly improve her activities in this or another direction. In order to ensure more reliable protection of the rights of detainees, the Office studies best practices, punishment execution laws of various countries (Russia, Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Georgia, etc.), as well as the methodology of undertaking visits, and new proposals are prepared for the improvement of the national punishment execution law and sent to the relevant bodies. So far a number of progressive proposals and recommendations reflected in the annual reports and other speeches of the Commissioner have found their positive resolutions in both legislative and institutional contexts. The approval of the NAP specifying more reliable protection of the rights of all population groups falling under the jurisdiction of the country, establishment of the Public Committee that ensures the involvement of the community in the rehabilitation of convicts and exercises public control over the operation of penitentiary institutions, amendment of the Punishment Execution Code of the Republic of Azerbaijan from the humanist viewpoint by the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan of 24 June 2008, etc. can be cited as an example to such facts. As an institution with the “A” status, the Commissioner has also contributed to the acceleration of the accession to and ratification of various international conventions and protocols by the Republic of Azerbaijan. In this context, the Commissioner’s proposal submitted to the relevant bodies for the acceleration of the ratification of the OPCAT, as well as the preparation of additional reports besides the country reports and their submission to treaty bodies can be mentioned. After the Commissioner was designated as an NPM, as in case of the other directions of the activities aimed at combating torture, it has become necessary to improve the scientific and analytical work as well and appropriate measures have been taken in this respect. First of all, the institution had to undertake the following tasks in this regard: - Analyze the Commissioner’s mandate in the context of the OPCAT requirements; 88