1. This report renders account of the activity performed by the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (NPM) in 2013, taking into account the provision of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT), made in New York on 18 December 2002, for issue of an annual report. Obligation to draw up an annual report The previous report of the NPM, on the activity performed in 2012, was submitted to the Official Registry of the Spanish Parliament on 16 May 2013 and sent to the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture. Report 2012 NPM before the Spanish Parliament and the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture The Ombudsman appeared before the Mixed Committee for Relations with the Ombudsman of the Spanish Parliament to submit Annual Reports 2010, 2011 and 2012 NPM, on 28 May 2013. In addition, on 22 October 2013, the Ombudsman appeared before the Mixed Committee for Relations with the Ombudsman, of the Spanish Parliament, where she reported on the activity of the institution at 30 September 2013, and referred also to the activity performed by the Institution in its capacity as National Preventative Mechanism against Torture (NPM). Reports 2010, 2011 and 2012 NPM submitted to the Spanish Parliament 2. As in previous years, in 2013, multidisciplinary visits were made Multidisciplinary visits at which, in addition to technical experts of the Ombudsman who had mainly legal training, external technical experts in various fields such as medicine, psychiatry or psychology also participated to carry out an integrated assessment of the places for deprivation of liberty that had been visited. 3. From the commencement of the activity of the NPM, in March 2010, until 31 December 2013, a total 423 visits were made, 39 of which were multidisciplinary, in which external technical experts participated. As mentioned in the previous annual report, upon completion of the visits, the conclusions drawn are sent to the various responsible authorities for them to correct the detected deficiencies, to the extent possible. 4. As was done in Annual Report 2012, the conclusions sent to the various authorities are recorded in the annexes to this report and are specified, centre by centre, taking into account each type of deprivation of liberty. Said annexes also include a follow up of the visits made From March 2010 to 31 December 2013, a total 423 visits The conclusions are recorded in the annexes to this report 15