A compilation of rules related to democratic memory is presented, including the Law of Historical Memory itself as well as the legislation of the Autonomous Communities.
Regulations
State regulations
Regulations
- Law of Democratic Memory(Law 20/2022 of 19 October)
Royal Decree 273/2024, of 19 March, which develops the basic organizational structure of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory.
- Royal Decree 1186/2024of 28 November, amending Royal Decree 1009/2023 of 5 December, establishing the basic organizational structure of ministerial departments, and Royal Decree 273/2024 of 19 March, developing the basic organizational structure of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory
Repair and personal recognition
- Royal Decree 1791/2008on the Declaration of Reparation and Personal Recognition to those who suffered persecution or violence during the Civil War and the Dictatorship
- Order of the Ministry of the Presidency PRE/3279/2009on 4 December, which provides for the publication of the Institutional Declaration of Recognition of Members of the Armed Forces in the Transition to Democracy with Special Reference to the Democratic Military Union (UMD)
- Draft Royal Decree on the Declaration of Recognition and Reparation those who suffered persecution or violence during the Spanish War and the subsequent Dictatorship
Nationality
- Instruction of October 25, 2022by DG Legal Security and Public Faith, on the right of option to Spanish nationality established in the eighth additional provision of Law 20/2022, of 19 October
- Royal Decree 1792/2008on the granting of Spanish nationality to volunteers belonging to the International Brigades
- Resolution of 17 March 2010by the Under-Secretariat, providing for the publication of the Agreement of the Council of Ministers of 22 January 2010
- Final Provision 6º of Law 20/2011 of the Civil Registry
Access to death books
- Instruction of 4/11/2008of the Directorate General of Registries and Notaries, on access to the consultation of civil registry death books
- Additional Provision 8 of Law 20/2011 on the Civil Registry
Withdrawal of Francoist symbols
- Order of 6/11/2008publishing the Agreement of the Council of Ministers issuing instructions for the withdrawal of Francoist symbols on the property of the General Administration of the State and its dependent public bodies
- Order of 19/2/2009establishing and regulating the Technical Committee of Experts for the Assessment of Exceptional Circumstances in the Withdrawal of Symbols
Return of seized documents
- Royal Decree 2134/2008of 26 December, regulating the procedure to be followed for the return to private individuals of documents seized during the Civil War
Pensions and Compensation
Archives
- Royal Decree 1816/2009of 27 November, approving the Rules of Procedure of the Military Judicial Archives
- Royal Decree 1708/2011, of 18 Novemberestablishing the Spanish Archives System and regulating the Archives System of the General Administration of the State and its Public Bodies and its access regime
- Resolution of the Minister of Defense of September 20, 2018which generally authorises public consultation of the documentation of the General Military Archive of Ávila prior to 1968
Exhumations
- Order PRE/2568/2011of 26 September publishing the Agreement of the Council of Ministers of 23 September 2011 ordering the publication in the Official State Gazette of the State of theProtocol of action in exhumations of victims of civil war and dictatorship
Tribute to the victims
- Resolution of April 29, 2019the Office of the Under-Secretary of Justice, publishing the Agreement of the Council of Ministers of 26 April 2019 on the establishment of the day of tribute to the Spanish deported and deceased in Mauthausen and other camps and to all the victims of Nazism in Spain
Regional regulations
Andalucia
- Law of Historical and Democratic Memory of Andalusia
- Agreement approving the I Andalusian Plan of Democratic Memory
- Decree for the coordination of actions around the recovery of historical memory
- Decree establishing compensation for women who suffered repression from the Franco dictatorship
- Decree by which the figure of Place of Historical Memory and the Catalogue of Places of Historical Memory of Andalusia are created and regulated
- Order approving the Andalusian Protocol for action in exhumations of victims of the Civil War and the Post-War
- Decree establishing the Interdepartmental Commission for the Recognition of the Victims of the Civil War and Francoism in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia
- Decree establishing compensation for former prisoners and political reprisals who suffered deprivation of liberty for more than three years and agreeing to open a public call for those others who suffered deprivation of liberty for less than three years, both as a result of the assumptions provided in Amnesty Law 46/1977 of 15 October (provision repealed)
- Decree establishing the procedure for granting one-off compensation to former prisoners and politically repressed persons who suffered deprivation of liberty as a result of the cases provided for in Amnesty Law 46/1977 of 15 October and who did not receive the compensation regulated in Decrees 1/2001 of 9 January and 333/2003 of 2 December
- Decree amending Decree 35/2006, of 21 February, establishing the procedure for granting one-off compensation to former prisoners and politically repressed persons who suffered deprivation of liberty as a result of the cases provided for in Amnesty Law 46/1977, of 15 October, and who did not receive the compensation regulated in Decrees 1/2001, of 9 January, and 333/2003, of 2 December
Aragon
- Democratic Memory Law of Aragon
- Decree of the Government of Aragon, by which the Museum of Civil War is created. Battle of Teruel
- Decree 100/2000 regulating the granting of compensation in favour of persons who were deprived of their liberty as a result of the cases contemplated in Amnesty Law 46/1977 of 15 October and did not receive the compensation established in Additional Provision 18th of Law 4/1990 of 29 June on the General Budgets of the state of 1990.
Asturias
- Decree 14/2023, of February 17, which develops the Law of the Principality of Asturias 1/2019, of March 1, for the recovery of democratic memory in the Principality of Asturias
- Law for the Recovery of the Democratic Memory of the Principality of Asturias
- Collaboration agreement between the Principality and the University of Oviedo for the updating of the map of graves
Balearic Islands
- Democratic Memory and Recognition Act of the Balearic Islands
- Law for the recovery of missing persons during the Civil War and Franco's regime
Canaries
- Law of historical memory of the Canaries and recognition and moral reparation of the Canarian victims of the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship
- Collaboration agreement between the Ministry of Justice and the Community of the Canary Islands for the elaboration of the map of graves
Cantabria
- Law of Historical and Democratic Memory of Cantabria
- Decree 77/2002, regulating assistance to persons within the scope of application of Amnesty Act 46/1977 of 15 October
- Decree 44/2004, calling for assistance for persons falling within the scope of Amnesty Law 46/1977 of 15 October
Castile-La Mancha
- Decree establishing and regulating the Advisory Council of the Democratic Memory of Castilla-La Mancha
- Decree 31/2002, which regulates the granting of compensation to persons who suffered imprisonment as a result of the cases contemplated in Law 46/1977 and were not favored by the provisions of the eighteenth additional provision of the General Budgets of 1990 and 1992
Castile and Leon
Government of Catalonia
- Law on Legal Reparation for Francoist Victims
- Law on the location and identification of missing persons during the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship, and the dignification of mass graves
- Decree implementing Law 10/2009, of 30 June, on the location and identification of missing persons during the Civil War and the dictatorship, and the dignification of mass graves
- Law on the restitution to the Generalitat of Catalonia of the documents seized on the occasion of the Civil War kept in the General Archive of the Spanish Civil War and on the creation of the Documentary Center of Historical Memory
- Democratic Memorial Law
Valencian Community
- Law of democratic memory and for the coexistence of the Valencian Community
- Decree establishing and regulating the Interdepartmental Commission for the Recovery of Democratic Memory
- Decree establishing the Register of Memorialist Entities of the Valencian Community
- Decree amending Decree 177/2016, of 2 December, establishing and regulating the Interdepartmental Commission for the Recovery of Democratic Memory
- Decree 210/2005, of 23 December, regulating the granting of compensation to prisoners covered by the Amnesty Law who did not agree to the compensation approved by the Government of the nation and who have not been included in the census, approved by agreement of the Council of the Generalitat of 6 May 2005
Extremadura
- Law of Historical and Democratic Memory of Extremadura
- Collaboration agreement between the Junta de Extremadura, Deputations of Cáceres and Badajoz, and the University of Extremadura for the recovery of historical memory
La Rioja
- Law for the recovery of democratic memory in La Rioja
- Decree establishing the Advisory Council on Historical Memory
- Decree amending Decree 15/2017, of 12 May, establishing the Advisory Council of Democratic Memory
- Order of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, of February 12, 2003, regulating compensation for persons affected by the cases determined in Law 46/1977, of October 15, on amnesty, and who were excluded from State compensation
Community of Madrid
- Decree 39/1999, of March 11, which regulates the granting of aid to those who suffered imprisonment as a result of the cases contemplated in Amnesty Law 46/1977, of October 15, and could not access State compensation for not having the age required in the legislation of the State
- Decree 47/2000, of 23 March, which regulates the granting of aid to those who suffered imprisonment for at least one year, as a result of the cases contemplated in Amnesty Law 46/1977, of 15 October
Region of Murcia
Navarre
- Formal Law for the Recognition and Moral Reparation of Navarre Citizens Murdered and Victims of Repression in the Wake of the Military Coup of 1936
- Regional Law amending Regional Law 33/2013, of 26 November, on the recognition and moral reparation of Navarre citizens killed and victims of repression following the military coup of 1936
- Foral Law of Places of Historical Memory of Navarre
- Foral Order Approving the Graphic Identity of Navarre’s Historic Memory Sites
- Decree-Law No. 75/1995 of 20 March 1995, regulating the granting of compensation to persons who suffered imprisonment as a result of the cases referred to in Amnesty Law No. 46/1977 of 15 October 1977 and who were not favoured by the provisions of Additional Provision No. 18 of the General State Budget Law of 1990.
Basque Country
- Law 9/2023, of September 28, on Historical and Democratic Memory of the Basque Country
- Law establishing the Institute of Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights
- Decree establishing provisions for financial compensation for persons deprived of their liberty, including suffering in Disciplinary Battalions of Working Soldiers
- Decree on compensation for those who suffered deprivation of liberty for alleged purposes of the Amnesty Law
- Action Plan 2021-2024 Board of Directors of the Institute of Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights
- Action plan 2017-2020 Board of Directors of the Institute of Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights
- Basque Plan 2015-2020 of investigation and location of graves for the search and identification of missing persons during the Civil War
