carried out by this State body as an National Institution for Human Rights and National Preventive Mechanism, as well as intervention at the international level. Next there is some statistical information which clarifies, in quantitative terms, the activity carried out by the Ombudsman in the handling of complaints and other new communications and of the procedures that, on his own initiative, determined the opening with the purpose of investigating the situations that come to our attention and which may be detrimental to fundamental rights. Graph II Year of 2016 – Assessment of communications addressed to the Ombudsman 12000 10115 10000 8000 6000 6875 4000 1638 2000 0 New cases opened Complaints dismissed 1602 Complaints considered non-admissible Total The graph above – introduced for the first time to the Parliament in 2013 – shows the activity of the Ombudsman in its traditional functions. Any communication addressed to this State body is subjected to a preliminary analysis, which may or may not lead to the opening of a procedure. The analysis of the annual activity of the Ombudsman should not be limited to the number of new procedures, but it has also to take into account the work done with the preliminary assessment of all communications. It is also important to mention that that subsequent communications that deal with matters already under investigation are incorporated in an opened procedure. In other words, an opened procedure may cover several complaints regarding the same subject. | 17