c.
To encourage and facilitate contacts between the Subcommittee on Prevention and the
national preventive mechanisms;
d.
To examine the recommendations of the Subcommittee on Prevention and enter into
dialogue with it on possible implementation measures.
Article 13
1.
The Subcommittee on Prevention shall establish, at first by lot, a programme of regular visits
to the States Parties in order to fulfil its mandate as established in article 11.
2.
After consultations, the Subcommittee on Prevention shall notify the States Parties of its
programme in order that they may, without delay, make the necessary practical arrangements
for the visits to be conducted.
3.
The visits shall be conducted by at least two members of the Subcommittee on Prevention.
These members may be accompanied, if needed, by experts of demonstrated professional
experience and knowledge in the fields covered by the present Protocol who shall be
selected from a roster of experts prepared on the basis of proposals made by the States
Parties, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United
Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention. In preparing the roster, the States Parties
concerned shall propose no more than five national experts. The State Party concerned
may oppose the inclusion of a specific expert in the visit, whereupon the Subcommittee on
Prevention shall propose another expert.
4.
If the Subcommittee on Prevention considers it appropriate, it may propose a short followup
visit after a regular visit.
Article 14
1.
In order to enable the Subcommittee on Prevention to fulfil its mandate, the States Parties to
the present Protocol undertake to grant it:
a.
Unrestricted access to all information concerning the number of persons deprived of
their liberty in places of detention as defined in article 4, as well as the number of places
and their location;
b.
Unrestricted access to all information referring to the treatment of those persons as
well as their conditions of detention;
c.
Subject to paragraph 2 below, unrestricted access to all places of detention and their
installations and facilities;
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