Long-term Deprivation of Liberty Regional Autonomous Communities Balearic Islands Canary Islands Cantabria N .º of proceedings 535 1,109 268 Castile-La Mancha 1,108 Castile y Leon 1,257 Catalonia 7,709 Comunitat Valenciana 4,774 Extremadura Galicia La Rioja Community of Madrid 490 2,641 291 21,826 Murcia 671 Navarre 316 Basque Country Total 2,997 55,288 Source: In-house compilation based on data provided by the Spanish Office of the Attorney General. 167. As pointed out in paragraph 470 of the 2010 Annual Report, Decision of the Constitutional Court 132/2010, of 2 December, declared unconstitutional two sub-sections of the first paragraph of Article 763 of the Civil Procedure Law, which provides for involuntary admission due to psychic disorders, considering that said measure, which entails deprivation of personal liberty, cannot be adopted pursuant to an ordinary law, but rather an organic law. The NPM has reminded the Secretary of State for Justice of the need to draft, as rapidly as pos­ sible, an organic law bill to regulate involuntary admission of persons who due to a serious psychopathology do not have the capacity to decide at a given time regarding the treatment of their mental health, and after having tried less res­ trictive alternative measures, need to be hospitalized to receive appropriate psy­ chiatric treatment, thus depriving them of their personal liberty. This is in ac­ cordance with the UN International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which came into force on 3 May 2008, and with the Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in its initial report on Spain (CRPD/C/ESP/1). The need to regulate by means of an organic law the involuntary admission of persons due to severe psychological pathologies has been reiterated The Secretary of State for Justice reported that work on the first copy of the draft bill to modify the Civil Code and the Civil Procedure Law would finalize at the beginning of 2013, after which the draft would be forwarded to the different MinTHE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN 131

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