null Civil Consultative Body Holds Meeting

On 10 June 2024, the Civil Consultative Body (CCB) supporting the work of the OPCAT National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) held a meeting, in which Commissioner for Fundamental Rights of Hungary Dr. Ákos Kozma also took part.

At the meeting, the NPM’s 2024 activities, inspections and further professional plans were discussed, among others. 

The mandate of the fifteen-member Civil Consultative Body is for three years, and the body may make proposals for the contents of the annual visit plan of the OPCAT National Preventive Mechanism, as well as for the priorities of the inspections, and it may propose visits to specific places of detention.

According to the law on the promulgation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT), as of 1 January 2015, the Commissioner for Fundamental Rights also acts as National Preventive Mechanism in person or through his staff members.