B. Infrastructure Facilities - Living conditions • The official establishment of all the accommodation facilities and the issue of the stipulated Rules of Operation and Internal Regulations. • Taking measures in order to ensure in a uniform manner, for all accommodation facilities, the essential commodities and services for all, namely appropriate shelter, food, drinking water, basic clothing items and medical care. Also, public transportation to the closest urban center. • The better coordination of the services and agencies that operate in the accommodation facilities and the effective supervision of their operation by the General Secretariat for Reception. • The acceleration of the procedures for the better use of the EU and national funds, intended for the accommodation of the refugees and migrants residing in the country. Also, the proper management of these funds for financing specific needs. • The completion of the preparation of the Registry of accredited agencies by the Directorate of Reception of the General Secretariat for Reception and its proper use. 2. Catering issues After several months of failing to meet the needs of the third-country nationals hosted at the hotspots and facilities of the mainland, the situation in the area of provision of food appears to have become clearer, at least as regards the procedural/organisational aspect. Αlimentation to the approximately 60,000 people remaining in Greece having arrived from the shores of Turkey, is provided with the responsibility of the armed forces in the case of accommodation facilities and sites for which responsible is the Hellenic National Defence General Staff, by various organisations in the corresponding accommodation facilities, or by the immigrants' own means, if they can afford it. The key player however in the area of nourishment, since March 2016, have been the armed forces which appear to be supplying, through private catering services, meals to most of the third-country nationals who have arrived in the country during the crisis. 2.1. The situation on 31 December 2016 As arises from the regular detailed report which the Hellenic 48 National Defence General Staff publishes, the armed forces were providing in late December 2016 three meals a day to more than 25,000 people. The meals included breakfast, lunch and dinner, and varied depending on the population classification (general category, vulnerable groups, pregnant women, diabetics) and the age of the individuals (infants up to 6 months old, infants 6-12 months old, children 1-12 years old, adults); their content is described in detailed tables included in the tender notice sample, which the National Defence Ministry has drawn up and published.148 Specifically, the meals do not include pork or alcohol, provide for beef and chicken once a week each, contain a total of approximately 2000 calories per person and are budgeted at 5.87 euros per person which is the fixed cost for nourishing detained people. According to a press release of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff on 29 December 2016, 7,208149 people staying in facilities on the 5 islands of the Eastern Aegean and 17,854150 people staying in 34 accommodation facilities of the mainland were being provided with food (i.e. a total of 25,262 people nourished by the armed forces). Considering the difficulty in finding the true numbers of people hosted on any given day, as described in Chapter A1, and according to the numbers given daily to publicity by the coordinating body, the armed forces appear το provide for alimentation on a daily basis of a little less than half the people remaining in the country. The meals are distributed at the location of the temporary accommodation of the third-country nationals, where the pre-packaged portions, fruit and bottles of water are transported and distributed to the beneficiaries, who form a queue at the scheduled times. In the facilities and sites where the meals are not provided by the armed forces, there is no uniform method or procedure 148 See for example the tender notice for the procurement of catering services of 30 May 2016, pg. 45 et seq. http://www.pkm.gov.gr/inst/pkm/ gallery//PKM%20files/Regional%20News/2016_05_30_ΔΙΑΚΗΡΥΞΗ%20 ΔΙΑΓΩΝΙΣΜΟΥ%20ΣΙΤΙΣΗΣ%20ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΩΝ%20ΜΕ%20Α��Α%20ΨΛΩ96-ΝΟΒ. pdf or the similar tender notice of 26 May 2016, as published on diavgeia website, at https://diavgeia.gov.gr/doc/6ΧΤ06-ΡΣΨ?inline=true 149 The number of people staying in these facilities, as arises from the press release of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff of 30 December 2016, http://www.geetha.mil.gr/media/pdf-arxeia/2016/greek/ prosfigiko/20161230.pdf was 10,454. The corresponding number arising from the announcement of the Central Operational Migration Body for the same day was 10,778 - while the number of 9,943 is written, probably by mistake. 150 Actually, according to the same announcement of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff, if someone adds the separate numbers in these facilities, it appears that 15,276 people were staying on that day. According to the announcement of the Central Operational Migration Body, it appears that a total of 22,300 people were staying in the facilities of mainland Greece.