CAT/OP/MDA/1 Contents Page I. Introduction............................................................................................................. 1–6 3 II. The national preventive mechanism........................................................................ 7-10 3 III. Main legal, structural and institutional obstacles faced by the current national preventive mechanism............................................................................................. 11-27 4 IV. Reform of the national preventive mechanism........................................................ 28-31 7 V. Final recommendations ........................................................................................... 32-34 8 ......................................................................................................................................................... 9 I. List of senior officials and other persons with whom the Subcommittee met ................................. 9 II. List of places of deprivation of liberty visited by the Subcommittee............................................... 11 III. Text of the draft Chapter IV “National Preventive Mechanism”, as transmitted by the State party on 4 October 2012.......................................................................................................... 12 Annexes 2 Paragraphs

Select target paragraph3