INE / Statistical Organization in Spain / National statistical legislation: basic

In article 149.1.31, the Constitution establishes that the State has exclusive jurisdiction over statistics with state purposes.

This page can be used to access Law 12/1989, of 9 May, on the Public Statistical Services (LFEP) which regulates statistical activity for state purposes, under the terms envisaged in article 149.1.31 of the Constitution. The LFEP also governs the planning and compilation of statistics with state purposes carried out by the State Administration and its dependant entities, as well as the organisation of its statistical services and its relations as regards statistical matters with Autonomous Communities, local corporations, the European Union and international organisations.

This page also provides access to the regulations that establish the statistics that require data with a compulsory nature in line with the terms envisaged in article 7 of the LFEP (Fourth Additional Regulation of Law 4/1990, of 29 June, on General State Budgets for 1990, amended by Law 13/1996, of 30 December).