384. As mentioned at the beginning of this report, pursuant to article 23 of the OPCAT, as in previous years, the annual report for 2013 was registered with the Lower House of Parliament (27 May 2014) and remitted to the United Nations Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture. 385. The Ombudsman appeared before the Mixed Committee of Relations with the Ombudsman of the Parliament on 17 June 2014, to submit the 2013 report and the report on Injury reports on people deprived of their liberty. The report was published in the website of the Ombudsman’s Office on the date of the appearance. For the dissemination of both reports, the representatives of civil society and professional associations were invited and, from 30 October to 13 November 2014, meetings were held with members of the General Council of the Spanish Legal Profession, Red Acoge, Cruz Roja, the Spanish Commission for Aid to Refugees (Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado –CEAR), the Association for Human Rights of Spain (Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de España –APDHE), Rights International Spain (RIS), the Unified Association of the Civil Guard (Asociación Unificada de la Guardia Civil –AUGC) and the National Union of Local Police Heads and Executives (Unión Nacional de Jefes y Directivos de Policía Local –UNIJEPOL). 386. As regards the dissemination and publicising in 2014 of the competence, operation and action of the NPM, technical experts of the Unit participated at the Officers Academy of the Civil Guard, in the Round Table The Legal Profession Against Torture at the Session against Torture organised by the Human Rights Section of the Bar Association of Madrid (Colegio de Abogados de Madrid –ICAM), in the Legal Congress of the Spanish Legal Professional organised by the Bar Association of Malaga, at the I Congress on Human Rights of the Spanish Legal Profession on Prevention of ill-treatment and torture of the Foundation of the Spanish Legal Profession, and in the symposium Facing situations of vulnerability of children in detection, organised by the Association for the Prevention of Torture in Geneva (Switzerland). In addition, meetings have been held with entities of civil society in the context of investigation projects on matters related to deprivation of liberty. 387. During the visit of a delegation of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture of the European Council (CPT) to Spain, in July 2014, a meeting was held with it focused on the situation of foreign nationals deprived of liberty, in accordance with immigration laws. 125

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