13 May 2016 – The Ombudsman and her Deputy Miha Horvat welcomed the delegation of the Ukrainian Ombudsman on their premises and presented the work of their institution. 20 May 2016 – Deputy Ombudsman Tone Dolčič and Ombudsman’s adviser Lan Vošnjak attended an international conference in Zagreb (Croatia) entitled ‘Children with a parent in conflict with the law’. The conference was organised by the Croatian Ombudsman for Children and the organisation, Children of Prisoners Europe. 20 May 2016 – In Rome (Italy), Deputy Ombudsman Ivan Šelih attended an international conference entitled ‘Dignity and human rights in places of deprivation of freedom – The establishment of the National Preventive Mechanism in Italy’. The conference was organised by the Italian NGO, Antigone, which works for the protection of human rights in Italy with an emphasis on the penal system. 24–27 May 2016 – The Ombudsman, her Deputies Tone Dolčič and Ivan Šelih, General Secretary mag. Bojana Kvas, Martina Ocepek, Director of the Expert Service, and Ombudsman’s adviser Robert Gačnik were on a working visit to the Montenegro Ombudsman (Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms) in Podgorica (Montenegro). They presented the functioning of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia, legal bases, organisation, functioning of the National Preventive Mechanism, and exchanged experience with their hosts. 31 May 2016 – The Ombudsman handed over to Dr Milan Brglez, President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia, the 2015 Annual Report of the Human Rights Ombudsman and the 2015 Report of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) at the premises of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia. 31 May 2016 – At a press conference, the Ombudsman, her Deputies Tone Dolčič, Ivan Šelih and Miha Horvat, presented the main highlights from the 2015 Annual Report of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia and the 2015 Report of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM). 2 June 2016 – Deputy Ombudsman Ivan Šelih and the Ombudsman’s adviser Robert Gačnik attended a consultation session on the planned construction of a new prison in Ljubljana at the Institute of Criminology in Ljubljana. The consultation was organised by the Institute of Criminology and the Association for Criminal Law and Criminology of the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana. 2 June 2016 – The Ombudsman and her Deputy Miha Horvat handed over the 2015 Annual Report of the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia and the 2015 Report of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) to the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Borut Pahor. 7–8 June 2016 – Deputy Ombudsman Miha Horvat attended a consultative workshop for NPMs in Vienna (Austria), which was organised by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute and ERA – Academy of European Law. 8 June 2016 – Ombudsman’s adviser mag. Jure Markič attended a meeting at the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities regarding the establishment of a specialised unit for persons with profound mental disorders. 21–23 June 2016 – In Vilnius (Lithuania), the Deputy Ombudsman and the Head of the Slovenian National Preventive Mechanism (NPM), Ivan Šelih, and Ombudsman’s adviser mag. Jure Markič attended an international conference of the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI) on the monitoring of psychiatric facilities implemented by National Preventive Mechanisms. The conference was organised by the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI), the Lithuanian Ombudsman and the Association for the prevention of torture (APT). 1 July 2016 – The Ombudsman, her Deputies and the Ombudsman’s advisers met the Minister of Health, Milojka Kolar Celarc, and her colleagues. The discussion partners focused on the normative programme for drafting new legislation, particularly the Health Services Act and the Health Care and Health Insurance Act. They also spoke about the procedure for admitting persons declared legally incapable to secure wards of social care institutions, the Mental Health Act and the functioning of the Forensic Psychiatry Unit of Maribor University Medical Centre. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE NPM IN 2016 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM UNDER THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE UN CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND OTHER CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT 23