142.  In accordance with that established in article 23 of OPCAT, the Annual Report 2014 was registered in the Congress of Deputies (May 25th 2015) and sent to the United Nations Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture. 143.  The Ombudsman appeared before the Spanish Parliament’s Joint Committee on Relations with the Ombudsman on June 9th 2015 in order to present the 2014 report. The report was published on the Ombudsman’s website on the same day she appeared before the Committee. Representatives from civil society and professional associations were invited to disseminate the report, and from June 29th to July 1st 2015 meetings were held with members of the Spanish Bar Association, the Spanish Committee for Refugee Aid (Spanish acronym CEAR), the Pro-Human Rights Association of Spain (Spanish acronym APDH), the Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (Spanish acronym CERM), the Unified Association of the Civil Guard (Spanish acronym AUGC) and the Officers’ Union of the Civil Guard. 144. The new website of the Ombudsman, which was constructed during 2015, includes a specific section for the NPM in which Annual Reports, the Recommendations, Suggestions and Reminders of legal duties put forward to the authorities following each visit, and the activity carried out by the NPM may be consulted. To maintain dialogue and collaboration with civil society, around twenty non-profit and non-governmental organisations were brought together for the presentation of the website. 145.  With regard to the dissemination and circulation in 2015 of the competences, operation and performance of the NPM, experts from the unit have taken part in the following activities: —— Conferences organised around the 30th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention against Torture, held by the Spanish Bar Association. —— 1 course about Foreign National Detention Centres organised by the Central Unit for Deportation and Repatriation of the National Police Force. —— An ENO (European Network of Ombudsmen) investigators’ meeting on forced returns, which covered repatriation flights and other matters. —— Colloquium on Monitoring during repatriation flights at the 10th National Seminar of the European Network of Ombudsmen organised by the Polish and European Ombudsmen. —— IOI Workshop for NPMs Implementing a Preventive Mandate, organised by the Latvian Ombudsman and the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI). —— Conference given in the Officers’ Academy of the Civil Guard in San Lorenzo del Escorial on the role of the NPM. 109

Select target paragraph3

Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents