SECTION 1. Implemenation of the NMP in ukraine 31 their heads, determines areas of performance, discusses the results of the working groups’ activity and makes decisions on such results; ⇒ conducts research of systemic violations that lead to ill-treatment and drafts proposals on elimination of their conditions and causes; ⇒ monitors, in the context of ill-treatment prevention, the legislation, the judicial and administrative practices and the operation of the bodies of state power; ⇒ promotes research in the sphere of ill-treatment prevention; ⇒ analyzes the compliance of the domestic legislation and law enforcement practice with Ukraine’s international obligations and ill-treatment prevention standards; ⇒ takes part in providing information to the public and international institutions with regard to the content of activities of the Ombudsman and the Ombudsman’s Representative in the area of NPM implementation, and makes proposal on promotion of the legal culture and legal awareness of the population; ⇒ pre-selects candidacies of civic monitors for participation in monitoring visits of custodial settings jointly with NPM Department experts and submits such candidacies to the Ombudsman for approval; ⇒ develops and approves the Code of ethics for monitors of custodial settings in Ukraine, considers the matters of possible violation of the rules of such Code by civic monitors, suspends civic monitors’ participation in monitoring visits for the period of consideration of alleged violations and, in case of confirmation of the fact of violation, initiates the matter of annulment of the monitor’s powers; ⇒ develops and approves the criteria of civic organizations’ involvement for performance of specific coordinating functions in the NPM operation (selection, training and certification of civic monitors, assistance in consolidation of monitoring reports, etc.) and pre-selects civic organizations in accordance with the established criteria; ⇒ approves the algorithms (observing maps) of monitoring visits for each kind of custodial settings; ⇒ participates in the analysis and consolidation of reports on the results of monitoring visits to custodial settings, jointly with NPM Department experts;