Legal regime
The system of distribution of competences between the state and the autonomous communities, configured in title VIII of the constitution and in the various statutes of autonomy, has a system of judicial protection, regulated in articles 161 and following of the constitution, as well as in the organic law 2/1979, of 3 october, the Constitutional court. In particular, as regards the system of distribution of competences, the Constitutional Court jurisdiction over
- The constitutional remedy against laws and regulations.
- Conflicts of jurisdiction between the state and the autonomous communities or of These with each other.
In practice, the development of a system autonomic spanish has taken the decision to resort to court jurisdiction to adjudicate disputes raised by the state and the autonomous communities of the content and scope of competence of each level. this way, a number of years it is assumed the role that the basic constitutional jurisprudence has played in order to clarify the scope of competences and responsibilities of the state and the autonomous communities.
The precise content of these disputes, as well as the actions undertaken before the constitutional court, are systematically in these two types of documents prepared by the technical services:
- The Monthly Report of conflicts. Is reflected in an accumulated and updated information on the evolution of disputes between the State authority and the autonomous communities.
- The Quarterly Bulletins of conflicts between the state and the autonomous communities. Contains information relating to the decisions of the constitutional court, the holding of Bilateral cooperation Committees and the evolution of the conflicts in the current year, as well as various statistics relating to the conflict between State and autonomous communities.