Recommendations made by the NPM in 2015 and follow-up to the Recommendations made in 2014 II.10.  Foreign national deportation operations Table 30 RECOMMENDATIONS MADE TO THE DIRECTORATE-GENERAL OF POLICE STATUS Recommendation of July 22nd 2015. To issue the necessary instructions which ensure that a medical examination is always expressly performed on all foreign nationals who are going to be deported, in advance of their deportation, whether in the centres of origin (Foreign National Detention Centre or Prison Facility) or by the physician who accompanies the operation during the flight (in the case of police stations), in order to confirm that there is no basis for halting the deportation from a medical point of view (‘fit to fly’), in accordance with article 7 of the FRONTEX Code of Conduct and paragraph 351 of the Annual Report 2014 on Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture (hereafter the Annual Report 2014). REJECTED Recommendation of July 22nd 2015. To adopt the necessary measures to enable video recording during deportation operations organised by Spain, in accordance with paragraph 44 of the 13th General Report of the CPT, article 10.1 of the FRONTEX Code of Conduct and paragraph 359 of the 2014 Annual Report. REJECTED Recommendation of July 22nd 2015. To establish a mechanism for filing complaints during operations, for such cases where the persons who are going to be repatriated believe that their fundamental rights have been violated. Said persons should be issued with a certified copy of the filing of the complaint and also informed of the channels which exist for lodging a complaint though the Spanish Embassies following arrival at their destination, according to the provisions in paragraph 361 of the 2014 Annual Report. REJECTED Recommendation of July 22nd 2015. To adopt the necessary measures which ensure that an interpreter always forms part of the operations on all flights organised by Spain in which the persons who may be deported speak neither English nor Spanish, in accordance with that highlighted in article 11.2 of the FRONTEX Code of Conduct and paragraph 354 of the 2014 Annual Report. ACCEPTED NOT IMPLEMENTED 105

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