A/HRC/27/41 and enabling greater engagement by MNHRC with civil society and human rights defenders. OHCHR and other stakeholders, including the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF), the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and international experts on national human rights institutions, consistently recommended that the Government create a legislative basis for the establishment of a national institution in compliance with the Paris Principles, the international minimum standards on national human rights institutions. 24. In 2013, in order to ensure that an independent institution to promote and protect human rights, in line with the Paris Principles, was established by law, OHCHR, APF, international experts and partners, with the active support and involvement of the senior legal adviser in the Office of the President, provided technical cooperation and advice on substantive or procedural elements of the bill, as well as encouraged participation by civil society, before and after its submission to Parliament in August 2013. The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission Law was adopted in March 2014 and promulgated by the President in April 2014. European Union: supporting the application by European Union member States of a human rights-based approach to trafficking and border control 25. With a view to supporting European Union efforts in implementing the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights, the OHCHR Regional Office for Europe, together with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), provided technical support to a number of European Union entities, including the European Parliament Committee for Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, in their efforts to develop a human rights-based directive on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings and protecting its victims. Adopted in 2011, the directive takes into account the contributions by United Nations entities on existing relevant international human rights standards. 26. Following the adoption of the directive, United Nations entities, including OHCHR, continued to provide practical guidance to European Union member States for the application of a human rights-based approach in the transposition of the directive into their national legislation. To that end, OHCHR and its United Nations partners prepared a joint commentary3 on the directive in relation to existing international standards, which was launched at the European Parliament in 2012. 27. OHCHR also provided technical assistance to the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of Member States of the European Union (FRONTEX) in aligning its policies with the new framework. In close cooperation with the FRONTEX Training Unit and with the collaboration of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, UNODC, UNHCR, UNICEF, UN-Women, the International Organization for Migration, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and others, OHCHR provided legal and methodological advice for the development of two specialized training packages for border guards, in compliance with international and regional human rights standards. 28. Multidisciplinary teams from FRONTEX, national authorities and law enforcement agencies and United Nations partners, including OHCHR, worked jointly in the context of a 3 6 OHCHR, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNODC, UN-Women and ILO, Prevent, Combat, Protect. Human Trafficking: Joint UN Commentary on the EU Directive – a Human Rights-based Approach , November 2011.