- 20 2. Response to the direct observations-recommendations and requests for information of the Committee SECTION A – Receipt and Identification Centres 2. Findings of the visit in April 2016 d. Legal guarantees Paragraph 25: Recommendation to the Greek authorities to ensure that procedures be put in place to ensure that persons readmitted to Turkey can take all their personal belongings with them In the context of the return operations effected pursuant to the Joint EU-Turkey Statement (Brussels, 18.03.2016), all foreign nationals are placed in detention from the moment that their return to Turkey is recommended (if they are not already in detention at that time). On approval of their return by the Turkish authorities, the foreign nationals to be returned are promptly notified on their forthcoming return, while the relevant "Return Decision" is issued. In any event, it is ensured that foreign nationals have the required time to prepare their belongings, since the relevant procedures begin at least the day before the operation. Moreover, the return operations are also attended by a representative of the independent authority of Ombudsman, who supervises the procedures to ensure the fundamental rights of the foreign nationals to be returned. 3. The situation at the time of the visit in July 2016 Paragraph 28: Recommendation to the Greek authorities to ensure the improvement of detention conditions of irregular migrants held at the PROKEKA of Lesbos Third-country nationals are detained at the Pre-Departure Detention Centre for Foreign Nationals (PROKEKA) of our country until the completion of the procedures for their return to Turkey or their country of origin. For every detained foreign national, the relevant return decision by detention is issued and delivered thereto, in order to be informed of the reasons for detention and of their rights and make use of such rights. These foreign nationals are detained in the Detention Centres with full respect to their rights, in living conditions ensuring both their decent living according to the obligations for decent living conditions stemming from Community and national laws and the provision of full and immediate information on their rights. In addition to the foregoing, it is noted that renovation-reconstruction works have been and continue to be made at the facilities of PROKEKA at Lesbos in order to improve the detention conditions of foreign nationals. Paragraph 29: Request for information: possibility of voluntary return of foreign nationals from Eastern Aegean islands