In article 37, law 12/1989, of 9 May, on the Public Statistical Services establishes that the High Council on Statistics is a consultative organ of the state statistical services, and in articles 36 and 42, creates the Interministerial Statistics Commission and the Interterritorial Statistics Committee respectively.

The legal regulations regulating the functions, organisation and functioning of these three official statistical bodies, their current composition and their annual activity Reports from those relating to 2008 are accessed from this page.