Spain

This section offers a summary of the main legislation on transitional justice adopted by the member state and, when available, a pdf with the document, together with the main decisions of national and international tribunals in relation to these measures. This is a non exhaustive list and will be updated and completed in a permanent basis. We also offer images of the museums that deal with memory issues in each EU country.

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Legislation

 

Main provisions

Year

Decree 2940/1975 general indult

1975

Order 17 December 1975 which extends to local entities the application of the Indult

1975

Order 5 December 1975 which extends the benefits of the Decree 2940/1975, of 25 November, to the academic domain

1975

Order 5 December 1975 which extends measures of indult to public servants and public organism sanctioned in application of the law 1939 on political responsibilities (BOE 308 d24 December 1975).

1975

Royal decree on amnesty, July 30, 1976 (see text here)

1976

Law 21/1976  on the right to political association

1976

Law 46/1977 of Amnesty (see text here)

1977

Law 1/1977 for Political Reform

1977

Royal Decree 388/1977, 14 March on general indult (BOE 66, 18 March 1977)

1977

Royal Decree 1081/1978, 2 May, for the application of amnesty to the civil servants of the Catalan Government (BOE 126/1978, 27 May 1978)

1978

Real Decreto-ley 6/1978 por el que se regula la situación de los militares que tomaron parte en la guerra civil (see text in Spanish here)

1978

Royal Decree 44/1978, auxiliary personnel of courts who were separated from service because of politically motivated reasons (BOE 308 23 December 1978)

1978

Ley 5/1979 sobre reconocimiento de pensiones, asistencia médico-farmacéutica y asistencia social en favor de las viudas, y demás familiares de los españoles fallecidos como consecuencia o con ocasión de la pasada Guerra Civil (see text in Spanish here)

1979

Ley 35/1980 sobre pensiones a los mutilados excombatientes de la zona republicana (see text in Spanish here)

1980

Ley 18/1984 sobre reconocimiento como años trabajados a efectos de la Seguridad Social de los periodos de prisión sufridos como consecuencia de los supuestos contemplados en la Ley de Amnistía de 15 de octubre de 1977 (see text in Spanish here)

1984

Ley 4/1990 de Presupuestos Generales del Estado para 1990

1990

Denial crimes (Criminal Code) (see text here)

1998

Law on restitution or compensation to political parties of the properties and rights confiscated in the period 1936-1939 (see text here)

1998

Public apologies declaration (Parliament) Declaration

2002

Decree 1891/2004, for the creation of the Interministerial commission for the study of the situation of the victims of the Civil War and Francoism (BOE núm. 20september 2004)

2004

Ley por la que se reconoce una prestación económica a los ciudadanos de origen español desplazados al extranjero, durante su minoría de edad, como consecuencia de la Guerra Civil, y que desarrollaron la mayor parte de su vida fuera del territorio nacional (see text in Spanish here)

2005

Law on restitution of documents to the Generalitat of Catalonia (see text here)

2005

Law 24/2006, 7 July, on the declaration of the year 2006 as the Year of Historical Memory

2006

Law 52/2007, Historical Memory

2007

Use of symbols (see text here)

2007

Decree 1791/2008, November 3, 2008, on declaration of reparation and personal acknowledgement to those persecuted or repressed during the Civil War and the Dictatorship ((BOE 17 November 2008)

2008

Decree 1792/2008, November 3, 2008, granting Spanish nationality to the volunteers of the International Brigades (BOE 17 November 2008)

2008

Real Decreto 1803/2008 por el que se regulan las condiciones y el procedimiento para el abono de las indemnizaciones reconocidas en la Ley 52/2007, de 26 de diciembre, a favor de personas fallecidas o con lesiones incapacitantes por su actividad en defensa de la Democracia (see text in Spanish here)

2008