Detention monitoring b. Legislative work i.  Position paper on the amendment of the FDJP Ordinance on the Operation of Federal Housing for Asylum-Seekers19 In its position paper of 26 April 2017, addressed to the SEM, the Commission reviewed the proposed amendments to the provisions on disciplinary measures in the light of its earlier recommendations. The Commission recommended specifically that all disciplinary measures be formally issued and registered. Furthermore, it suggested that they be clearly distinguished from security measures, for which rules must also be established in a separate section of the Ordinance. ii.  Position paper on the preliminary draft of the Federal Act on the Funding of the National Human Rights Institution20 The Commission drafted a position paper concerning the preliminary draft of the Federal Act on the Funding of the National Human Rights Institution and welcomed the fact that with the planned establishment of such an institution, Switzerland will be in compliance with recommendations made by international human rights bodies to the Swiss government. The Commission pointed out that the future institution will fill a significant gap in the current institutional framework for the protection of human rights. At the same time, the Commission emphasised that only an institution established in conformity with the Paris Principles,21 and whose mandate takes into account existing national mechanisms, can play a central role in promoting the protection of human rights. Stellungnahme der Nationalen Kommission zur Verhütung von Folter zur Änderung der Verordnung des EJPD über den Betrieb von Unterkünften des Bundes im Asylbereich, 26. April 2017] available online (in German) at: https://www.nkvf. admin.ch/dam/data/nkvf/Stellungnahmen/170426-stn-ejpd-vo-asyl.pdf. 19 Stellungnahme der Nationalen Kommission zur Verhütung von Folter zum Erlassentwurf über die Unterstützung der nationalen Menschenrechtsinstitution, 11. Oktober 2017, available online (in German) at: https://www.nkvf.admin.ch/ dam/data/nkvf/Stellungnahmen/171012-stn-mrig.pdf. 20 https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N94/116/24/PDF/N9411624.pdf?OpenElement. 21 22 Activity Report NCPT 2017