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Spanish Constitution (Current text)
Approved by the Parliament in Plenary Session and composed by the Congress of Deputies and the Senate on 31 October 1978, ratified by the Spanish people by referendum on 6 December 1978 and promulgated by His Majesty the King before the Parliament on 27 December 1978
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Organic Law of the Constitutional Court

Ley Orgánica del Tribunal Constitucional (Texto vigente)
Ley Orgánica 2/1979, modificada por las Leyes Orgánicas 8/1984, 4/1985, 6/1988, 7/1999, 1/2000, 6/2007, 1/2010, 8/2010, 12/2015 y 15/2015.

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Rules of Organization and Personnel

Regulation on the Organization and Personnel of the Constitutional Court
Resolution of 5 July 1990, of the Plenary Session of the Constitutional Court, approving the Regulation on the Organization and Personnel of the Constitutional Court, amended by Resolutions of 5 October 1994 (BOE No. 252, 21 October), of 8 September 1999 (BOE No. 227, 22 September), of 27 February 2001 (BOE No. 57, 7 March), of 19 December 2002 (BOE No. 307, 24 December), of 14 May 2003 (BOE No. 124, 24 May), of 31 March 2008 (BOE No. 80, 2 April), of 28 April 2010 (BOE No. 105, 30 April), of 1 April 2011 (BOE No. 80 and 82, 4 and 6 April), of 14 June 2011 (BOE No. 141, 14 June), of 19 November 2012 (BOE No. 282, 23 November), of 11 July 2014 (BOE No. 170, 14 July), of 23 July 2015 (BOE 178, 27 July), of 21 April 2016 (BOE No. 102, 28 April) and of 2 July 2018 (BOE No. 165, 9 July). Consolidated version.

Plenary Agreements

Functioning of the Court during the holiday period.
Resolution of 15 June 1982 of the Plenary Assembly of the Constitutional Court, approving the rules governing the functioning of the Court during periods of holidays (BOE No. 157, of 2 July), amended by the resolutions of 17 June 1999 (BOE No. 148, of 22 June) and 18 January 2001 (BOE No. 20, of 23 January). Consolidated version
Free legal assistance in the constitutional protection proceedings.
Resolution of 18 June 1996 of the Plenary Session of the Constitutional Court on free legal assistance in constitutional amparo proceedings (BOE núm. 174, 19 July).
Processing of appeals for constitutional protection on electoral matters.
Resolution of 20 January 2000, of the Plenary Session of the Constitutional Court, approving rules on the processing of appeals for constitutional protection referred to in Organic Law 5/1985, dated 19 June, on the General Electoral System (BOE no. 21, 25 January).
Replacement of Magistrates.
Resolution of 20 January 2005, of the Plenary Session of the Constitutional Court, regulating the replacement of Magistrates for the purposes set out in Article 14 of Organic Law 2/1979 of the Constitutional Court, dated October 3rd (BOE no. 21, 25 January).
Automated files of personal data.
Resolution of 21 December 2006, of the Plenary Session of the Constitutional Court, regulating the automated personal data files existing in the Court (BOE no. 1, 1 January 2007), modified by the Resolutions of 26 March 2009 (BOE no. 86, 8 April) and 28 April 2010 (BOE no. 105, 30 April). Consolidated version.
Equality Unit
Resolution of 27 May 2014 of the Plenary of the Constitutional Court, by which it was agreed to create a Unit for Equality within the Constitutional Court.
Anonymisation of court decisions.
Resolution of 23 July 2015, of the Plenary Session of the Constitutional Court, regulating the removal of personal information in the publication of jurisdictional resolutions (BOE no. 178, 27 July).
Creation of the Electronic Registry.
Resolution of 15 September 2016 of the Plenary of the Constitutional Court, regulating the General Register and creating the Electronic Register of the Court (BOE no. 284, 24 November).
State of alarm
Agreement of 16 March 2020, adopted by the Plenary of the Constitutional Court, on the stay of procedural and administrative time-limits during the effective period of Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March.
State of alarm
Agreement of 6 May 2020, adopted by the Plenary of the Constitutional Court, on the calculation of the procedural and administrative time-limits that were suspended by virtue of the Agreement of 16 March 2020, during the effective period of Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March.
Acuerdo de 18 de febrero de 2021, del Pleno del Tribunal Constitucional
Acuerdo de 18 de febrero de 2021, del Pleno del Tribunal Constitucional, sobre tratamiento de datos de carácter personal.
Acoso sexual y por razón de sexo y/o acoso laboral
Acuerdo de 16 de noviembre de 2022, del Pleno del Tribunal Constitucional, por el que se aprueba el Protocolo para la prevención y actuación frente a conductas que puedan derivar en acoso sexual y por razón de sexo y/o en acoso laboral en el Tribunal Constitucional.
Acuerdo de 17 de enero de 2023, del Pleno del Tribunal Constitucional, por el que se dispone la composición de las Salas y Secciones del Tribunal Constitucional
Acuerdo de 17 de enero de 2023, del Pleno del Tribunal Constitucional, por el que se dispone la composición de las Salas y Secciones del Tribunal Constitucional.

Resolutions of the Presidency

Resolución de la Presidencia sobre la composición de los miembros de la Mesa de Contratación
Resolución de 31 de enero de 2023, de la Presidencia del Tribunal Constitucional, por la que se determina la composición de la Mesa de Contratación.
Resolution of the Presidency on the composition of the members of the Public Procurement Contracting Board.
Resolution of the Presidency of the Constitutional Court, dated February 29th 2019, whereby it determines the composition of the Contracting Board (BOE no. 56, March 6th).
Composition of the Public Procurement Committee.
Resolution of 12 September 2018, of the Presidency of the Constitutional Court, determining the composition of the Public Procurement Committee (Official Gazette "BOE", n. 231, 24 September).
Delegation of powers.
Resolution of 28 March 2017, of the Presidency of the Constitutional Court, on the delegation of powers in contracting matters (BOE no. 79, of 3 April 2017).

Resolutions of the General Secretariat

Electronic Registry of the Constitutional Court
Resolution of 16 December 2019, of the General Secretariat of the Constitutional Court, setting the scope of the Electronic Registry of the Constitutional Court.
Creation of the European Case Law Identifier (ECLI)
Resolution of 24 January 2017 of the General Secretariat of the Constitutional Court, on the assignment of the ECLI identifier to judicial decisions of the Constitutional Court which are accessible on the database of constitutional doctrine or published in the "Official State Gazette".
Delegation of powers.
Agreement of 5 April 2017, of the General Secretariat of the Constitutional Court, delegating powers to the Deputy General Secretary of the Constitutional Court Constitucional