Annual Report 2016 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture Appearance of the Ombudsman before the Joint Committee on Relations with the Ombudsman 193. In order to disseminate the 2015 Report, various social groups and professional associations were summoned and meetings held on 24 October and 7 November 2016, with members of the Spanish Bar Association, the Spanish Committee for Refugee Aid (CEAR), the Unified Association of the Civil Guard (AUGC), Jesuit Service for Emigrants and the Spanish Confederation of Organisations for the Elderly (CEOMA). Likewise, meetings were held with representatives of other civil society organisations to discuss matters related to their respective fields of action, such as the Pro-Human Rights Association of Andalusia (5 May 2016), the Coordinator for the Prevention of Torture (14 July 2016) and the Spanish Confederation for Mental Health (28 July 2016). Furthermore, following our visits to prison facilities, we have kept in contact with the provincial coordinators of Services for Penitentiary Legal Counsel, in order to gather relevant information on the prisons visited. 194. On 26 September 2016, a meeting was held in Madrid with the head of European countries and speaker for Spain on the SPT. 195. There is a specific section dedicated to the NPM on the Ombudsman website, where all annual reports, recommendations, suggestions and reminders of legal duties made to the authorities following each visit may be accessed, as well as the NPM’s activity. 130