1st Meeting of European NPM Contact Persons, Padua (Italy), 27-28 January 2010

Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Welcome address

Marco Mascia 
Director, Interdepartmental Centre on Human Rights and Peoples
Rights, University of Padua

Opening of the meeting

Markus Jaeger 
Head of Legislative Support and National Human Rights Structures
Division, Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, Council of Europe

Raphaël FIŠERA
Human Rights and Democratisation, Directorate General for External Relations,
European Commission (tbc)

Working Session on substance: the concept of preventive monitoring (as opposed to the complaints-based monitoring)

The concept of preventive monitoring

Tanya Norton, 
Detention Monitoring Adviser, Association for the Prevention of
Torture (APT)

Combining complaints handling with preventive monitoring

Silvia Casale, 
Consultant (London), Project Advisor

The concept of preventive monitoring and the respective roles of the SPT, the CPT and the NPMs

The role of the SPT

Hans Draminsky Petersen, 
Vice-President of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (SPT),

Malcolm Evans, 
Member of the SPT

The role of the CPT

Renate Kicker, 
Former Member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT)

The role of the NPMs

Teo Batsikadze, 
Contact Person of the NPM of Georgia, and

Ewa Dawidziuk,
Contact Person of the NPM of Poland

Discussion on respective roles

Thursday, 28 January 2010

Second Working Session: Deciding the work-programme of the European NPM Network in 2010-2011

Introduction to the envisaged workplan

Francesca Gordon, 
Project Manager of the European NPM Project, National Human Rights Structures Division, Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs,
Council of Europe

Agreeing on dates, places, modalities and themes of the thematic workshops in 2010 and 2011

Silvia Casale
Introduction of ideas for themes for thematic workshops

Tour de table on themes and discussion: All participants

Discussion of modalities of the On-site exchanges of experiences with NPMs in 2010

Introduction and summary of NPM Pilot Project in Estonia
Mari Amos, 
Contact Person of the NPM of Estonia

Practical modalities of co-organising an On-site exchange of experiences
Markus Jaeger

Discussion: All participants

Outline of the other activities of the European NPM Project: Heads of the NPM meetings, Annual meetings of the NPM Contact Persons and the regular European NPM Newsletter
Markus Jaeger, 
Francesca Gordon and 
Stefano Valenti, 
Interdepartmental Centre on Human Rights and Peoples Rights, University of Padua

Winding-up

Markus Jaeger, Francesca Gordon and Stefano Valenti