Status
UNCAT ratification date
13 September 1990
OPCAT ratification date
24 September 2003
NPM designated
NPM Type
Multiple body
NPM Legal Framework
Regulation of the Board of Visitors for Detained Persons (18 September 2007)
Prison Regulations (Part IV on the Board of Visitors for the Prisons, 1 October 1999, amended in 2007)
Annual reports
Both Boards of Visitors send their annual reports to the Minister of Justice and Home Affairs. According to APT information, those reports are not made public and there is no coordinated and compiled NPM annual report in Malta.
Other Reports
The reports of both Boards of Visitors are confidential unless the Minister of Justice and Home Affairs decides to publish them.
Following its visit to Malta in January 2009, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention recommended the government to strengthen the mandate and powers of both Boards, including the publication of their reports.