Annual Report 2016 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture I.3.3 Residential facilities which rehabilitation services provide health, social or 148. As in previous years, the NPM has visited residential facilities which provide health, social or rehabilitation services, given that they accommodate social groups that may include persons committed to the facility against their will. 149. Current legislation on the matter has not changed with respect to 2015; although this year the First Additional Provision of the Civil Procedure Act was amended, through organic act channels, in order to upgrade Article 763 to “organic” status, regulating involuntary commitment due to mental disorders, we still lack exhaustive national regulations that adequately guarantee the fundamental rights of persons detained in mental health or healthcare/social facilities. 150. Over the last few years, the Executive has been requested to carry out this legislative implementation. At the time, the Administration accepted our Recommendation and announced its plan to examine possible channels in order to carry this out. Over 2016, however, as the Government was not officially in place until November, we have been unable to check how this process has evolved. 98

Select target paragraph3

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