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Law 23/2011, July 29, Of Legal Deposit.

Original Language Title: Ley 23/2011, de 29 de julio, de depĆ³sito legal.

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TEXT

JOHN CARLOS I

KING OF SPAIN

To all who present it and understand

Sabed: That the General Courts have approved and I come to sanction the following law.

PREAMBLE

I

The bibliographic, sound, visual, audiovisual and digital heritage of the cultures of Spain is one of the richest and most representative of the world and must be preserved for the benefit of present and future generations. In order for it to be accessible to all citizens and contribute to the cultural, social and economic development of Spain as a free and democratic society, it is necessary to have the collaboration of editors, printers, producers, as well as the world library, whose joint action is essential in order to preserve this heritage, in some cases, giving copies or copies of all the information resources created in any medium or medium to the Public Administrations to be distributed publicly, and in others, managing universal accessibility to these resources.

Initially conceived only as a national bibliographic control figure, the legal deposit has been set up in the democratic states as a free public service to the publishing sector to supply original works in the public domain, and as a guarantee of freedom of expression and access to citizens ' information and, with the advent of the knowledge society, as a piece of the economic and social development of a country.

The figure of the legal deposit was introduced in Spain for the first time in 1616 for works printed in the Crown of Aragon and in 1619 for works printed in the Crown of Aragon and the Kingdom of Castile, when Philip III, for Real Decree of January 12, grants to the Royal Library of The Escorial the privilege of receiving a copy of how many books were printed. Felipe V extends this privilege through Real Cedula of July 26, 1716, to the newly founded Royal Library, today National Library of Spain.

Since that date, compliance with this obligation has been a constant concern, giving rise to various and successive provisions. The Decree of 23 December 1957 extended the variety of materials subject to the legal deposit and foresaw the incorporation of other then non-existent resources. With the number of legal deposit and the administrative system developed for its control, it was achieved for the first time an effective fulfillment of the deposit of the materials.

At the international level, several studies have been sponsored by UNESCO, always in line with the deepening and universalization of the legal deposit, as well as the activity carried out in the same sense and systematically by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

Likewise, forms of intellectual and artistic expression have evolved, new means of publication have been created, and today electronic publications are a regular part of many national heritage sites. published, making it imperative to review regulations on legal deposit.

As a novelty in the case we are concerned, it is worth noting that the law introduces a change of adaptation to the reality of the world of publications, which is based on the new role attributed to the editor. The presence of the editor as a principal depositor will mean a great improvement in the collections guarded by the depository centers, since it will allow the documents to enter, that the serial publications will not be missed The European Union has been a very successful partner in the development of the European Union's relations with the European Union. In addition, it will allow the collections of the autonomic libraries to respond to their editorial reality.

On the other hand, it is important to insist on the advantages that the legal deposit has for those forced to constitute it, given its impact on the increase in the visibility and publicity of its publications, the best bibliographic control which provides and the long-term warranty of the availability of your material, which can be of considerable value when the original has been lost or destroyed.

It should also be noted that it has been sought to reconcile the provision of the public service of the legal institution of the legal deposit with the reduction of administrative burdens by substantially decreasing the number of copies that the publishing sector must provide to the Administration.

Another new aspect of this law is that it contemplates the deposit of the new media of the edition and of the documents in net. The adoption of initiatives by Member States in the field of digital preservation of cultural material has been proposed and recommended in the field of the European Union. The institutions of the Union have warned of the challenges posed by the repository of bibliographic, sound, visual, audiovisual and digital heritage in a digital environment and have proposed solutions aimed at exploring new techniques. for the collection of online material for dissemination and conservation purposes.

In this context, the Europe 2020 strategy and its flagship initiatives, among others, the European Digital Agenda and the Innovation Strategy, gather the impetus that the main European institutions intend to give to the preservation of digital content with a view to ensuring their access to future generations. In this way, this law provides for the assumptions of both publications in the form of tangible digital copies, as well as publications disseminated only through electronic networks.

In Spain, the need for the renewal of normative content is in addition to adapting the legal order of the legal deposit to the State of the Autonomies and the distribution of competences between the State and the Communities. Autonomous. Also, Law 10/2007 of 22 June, of Reading, of the Book and of the Libraries, highlighted the importance of developing a law on the subject that would adapt to these new circumstances. In this way, in its first provision, it is said that the government, within the maximum period of one year, will submit a bill to adapt the current regulations to the reality of the State of the Autonomous Communities, to the appearance of new supports and to the changes in the publishing sector.

II

Article 149.2 of the Spanish Constitution constitutes a competency for the activity of the State in matters of legal deposit as it provides that " without prejudice to the powers that the Communities may assume Autonomous, the State shall consider the service of culture as essential duty and attribution and facilitate cultural communication between the Autonomous Communities, according to them. "

The regulation that is made of the legal deposit in this law sets it up not only as a public property provision, but it encrypts its essence and true purpose in the meeting, conservation and dissemination of the publications the bibliographic, sound, visual, audiovisual and digital heritage of the Spanish cultures. For these purposes, it is a peaceful matter in the legal doctrine that goods, which by their nature constitute that heritage, form part of the cultural heritage of a country and therefore of the generic constitutional concept of "culture", and it is on the basis of to this as this normative renewal is articulated and the change of the principal bound to the legal deposit, transferring that protagonist of the printer to the editor.

The law also adopts instruments to provide the State with the necessary information to nurture its statistics on editorial production, which feed on the materials effectively preserved by the Library. National of Spain and which has the constitutional protection provided for in article 149.1.31. of the Spanish Constitution.

In the National Library of Spain, it is also produced, with different criteria but on the same materials, the Spanish Bibliography, an exhaustive record of the publications produced and distributed in Spain. This record, which is informative and nurtured by the materials and data provided by the Autonomous Communities, presents, for its part, the traits defined by the constitutional jurisprudence to characterize the central registers of character information (STC 197/1996 of 3 January 1997).

On the other hand, Article 149.1.28 of the Spanish Constitution bases the competence of the State on the subject of museums, libraries and archives of State ownership, without prejudice to its management by the Communities Stand-alone.

Likewise, and as specified in Law 10/2007, of June 22, of the Reading, of the Book and of the Libraries, article 149.1.9. of the Spanish Constitution provides another title of competence of the State in the matter, in the measure The legal deposit is fundamental to the preservation of culture, making it possible for any person to access the cultural, intellectual and bibliographic heritage, while contributing to the protection of copyright in the field of intellectual property.

The law has 20 articles grouped into five chapters, three additional provisions, a repeal provision, and four final provisions.

Chapter I establishes the provisions concerning the institution of the legal deposit and its objectives, as well as a number of definitions for the purposes of this law.

Chapter II refers to the obligation of the legal deposit and indicates which publications are the subject of the legal deposit, as well as the subjects required to it, containing a specification concerning the publications online online.

Chapter III refers to the administration of the legal deposit and the institutions involved in it, such as conservation centers and legal deposit offices.

Chapter IV determines the provisions concerning the constitution of the legal deposit and the number of such deposit, with specific consideration for electronic publications.

Chapter V establishes, last, the regime of violations and sanctions.

The additional provision first regulates collaboration conventions.

The second additional provision provides for the establishment of an instrument for the participation of the sectors concerned in the field of legal deposit.

The third additional provision provides for the assumption that there will be an obligation to free a copy of public libraries to be established by the Autonomous Communities with an official language.

The single repeal provision repeals all rules of equal or lower rank that contradict or oppose the provisions of this, as well as the current regulatory provisions that constitute state law. in the matter.

The final provision first states which are the enabling titles enabling for the approval of this law, while the final Disposition second regulates the regulatory habilitation to the government for this dicte the provisions necessary for the application and development of the law in the field of its powers. The third final provision provides for regulatory regulation of the procedure for setting up the electronic publishing repository.

Finally, the Fourth Final Disposition regulates the entry into force of the legal text.

CHAPTER I

General provisions

Article 1. Purpose of this law.

This law is intended to regulate the legal deposit, which is configured as the legal institution that allows the General Administration of the State and the Autonomous Communities to collect copies of all publications type reproduced in any kind of support and intended by any procedure for its distribution or public communication, whether free or onerous, in order to fulfill the duty to preserve the bibliographic, sound, visual, audiovisual and digital of the cultures of Spain in every historical moment, and allow the access to it for cultural, research or information purposes, and for the republishing of works, in accordance with the provisions of this law and in the legislation on intellectual property.

Article 2. Objectives of the legal deposit.

Are targets of the legal deposit:

1. To collect, store and conserve, in the conservation centers of the General Administration of the State and the Autonomous Communities, the publications that constitute the bibliographic, sound, visual, audiovisual and digital Spanish heritage, with the purpose of preserving and legalizing it for future generations, ensuring its dissemination and allowing access to it to ensure the right of access to culture, information and research.

2. Collect accurate information to produce official statistics on the reference heritage.

3. Describe the set of bibliographic, sound, visual, audiovisual and digital Spanish production, in order to disseminate it, and enable the exchange of data with other Spanish and foreign agencies or library institutions.

4. Allow access and consultation of stored publications, either in the facilities of the conservation centres themselves or through online databases of restricted access, ensuring their correct conservation and respecting in all Intellectual property legislation; data protection; reading, book and library; accessibility; as well as the provisions of this law.

Article 3. Definitions.

For the purposes of this Act it is understood by:

Document: All information or content, whatever its medium or format, as well as its nature or the form of expression used (graphic, sound, visual, audiovisual, multimedia, etc.).

Electronic document: Information or content of any nature in electronic support, archived in a given format and capable of distinct identification and treatment.

Internet Domain: A company, organization, or physical person's Internet space associated with a name or address, which allows their information or content, products or services to be accessible.

Edition: All copies of a bibliographic, sound, visual, audiovisual and digital resource produced substantially from the same original and edited by the same agency or groups of agencies or by a person.

Parallel edition: Set of copies of a document that with the same content are published on different media, such as paper and microfiche, databases on CD and online.

Editor: Natural or legal person who, on his own behalf, chooses or conceives literary, scientific and general works of any subject, and performs or commissions the industrial processes for his or her transformation in book or in another resource, whatever its support, for the purpose of publication and dissemination or communication.

Copy: Each full unit within an edition.

Print on Demand: Exemplary or copies of an edition made to respond to specific orders.

Printer: Natural or legal person who, with the necessary technical facilities and facilities, is dedicated, exclusively or principally, to the performance and printing of paper books or any other capable support reading.

Book: Scientific, artistic, literary or any other kind that constitutes a unitary publication in one or more volumes and which may appear in print or in any support capable of reading. They are included in the definition of a book, for the purposes of this Law, for electronic books and for books that are published or disseminated by the Internet or in other support that may appear in the future, the complementary materials of character printed, visual, audiovisual or sound which are edited together with the book and which are part of the book's unitary character, as well as any other editorial.

Mancheta: A place that, in periodic publications, provides the primary identification data for the publication.

Producer: A natural or legal person who assumes the initiative, coordination and economic risk of the production of sound, visual, audiovisual or digital works and contents.

Electronic publication: Information or content of any nature, in an electronic medium, archived in a given format and capable of identification and differentiated treatment, that is the object of dissemination.

Periodic Publication: Any publication of any nature that appears, is continuously distributed or communicated with an established periodicity.

Seriated Publication: Any scientific, literary or any type of work that appears or communicates on a continuous basis, edited in a succession of numbers or separate parts, which normally carries a numbering and which does not have a default duration.

Resource: An entity, tangible or intangible, that collects intellectual, artistic, or any content that is conceived, produced, or edited as a unit.

Continued Resource: Publication that is edited over time, with no default duration. Includes serial publications and uninterrupted integrable resources.

Integrable Resource: Publication that is completed or modified by updates, which do not remain separate, but are integrated into a whole. They may be finite or continued. Upgradable loose sheets and upgradeable websites are an integral resource.

Multimedia Resource: Resource constituted by two or more different media or by different forms of the same medium and that is intended to be used as a unit.

Reedit: Edit that is distinguished from previous ones by some modifications made to the content or presentation.

Website: An electronic access point made up of one or more electronic pages grouped into an Internet domain.

Tangible support: Physical support of a work or content such as paper, disk, and so on.

Non-tangible support: Virtual support for a work or content broadcast through electronic networks.

Version: Form of a document that has been modified without changing its identity.

CHAPTER II

From the legal deposit obligation

Article 4. Publications object of legal deposit.

1. All types of publications, produced or edited in Spain, are the subject of the legal deposit, for any production, editing or dissemination procedure, and distributed or communicated in any medium, tangible or intangible.

2. In any event, and without prejudice to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the editions, reissues, versions, parallel editions and updates of the publications of signs, signs, writings, sounds or messages of any nature, including sound, audiovisual, and multimedia and electronic resources.

3. The legal deposit will comprise the following types of publications and resources, or the combination of several of them forming a unit:

(a) paper books and brochures, whatever their form of printing and whether or not intended for sale,

(b) printed sheets for diffusion purposes that do not constitute essentially commercial propaganda,

c) continued resources such as serial publications, journals, yearbooks, memoirs, journals, and integrable resources, such as updatable loose sheets,

d) scores,

e) original prints made with any technique,

f) edited photographs,

g) sheets, chromes, cards, postcards and greeting cards,

h) advertising and advertising posters,

i) maps, plans, atlas, sea, aeronautical and celestial letters,

(j) textbooks for Early Childhood Education, Primary, Compulsory Secondary, Baccalaureate and Vocational Training,

k) sound documents,

l) audiovisual documents,

m) microforms,

n) electronic documents on any medium, which the state of the art permits at any time, and which are not freely accessible via the Internet,

n) fixable or recordable websites whose content may vary over time and may be copied at any given time,

o) a new copy of the original documents, in the original version, of any film, documentary or fiction film, made by a producer with a domicile, residence or permanent establishment in the Spanish territory and a copy of the relevant advertising material.

Article 5. Publications excluded from legal deposit.

The following publications will not be legally deposited:

(a) documents of public administrations of an internal nature or which are capable of integration into administrative files,

(b) documents of institutions and organisations, including business organisations, which deal solely with internal matters and are intended for the staff of such institutions, such as circulars, instructions or manuals of procedure,

(c) publications for competitions for the promotion or transfer of the bodies or scales of the various public

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d) mail stamps,

e) social forms such as wedding and christening invitations, death cuttings, business cards, identity cards, titles or diplomas,

(f) forms of offices, forms, including officers, questionnaires and surveys not completed except that they complement a work whose content is technical or scientific, for example, a volume consisting of a collection of forms accompanying a book on administrative procedure,

g) print publications on demand,

h) press dossiers,

i) commercial sheets,

j) commercial catalogs of all types,

k) calendars and calendars,

l) three-dimensional objects, even if they accompany a main document,

m) manual instructions for objects, appliances, machinery, or analogues,

n) any product of a computer system that contains data that affects the privacy of natural and legal persons and how many are included in personal data protection regulations, and

n) audiovisual programmes issued by providers of the audiovisual media service, unless they are distributed.

Article 6. Subjects required to constitute the legal deposit.

1. Publishers who have their domicile, residence or permanent establishment in Spanish territory, whatever the place of printing, are required to constitute the legal deposit.

2. Where the publisher does not reside or has a branch in Spain or in cases where, by reason of the type of appeal so appropriate, the deposit must be filled in by the producer, printer, stammer or recorder, who has domicile, residence or permanent establishment in Spain.

Article 7. Subjects required to apply for the legal deposit number.

They are required to apply for the legal deposit number of publishers of a work published in a tangible format. If the publisher has not requested it, he must do so, in his absence, the producer, printer, stammer or recorder, in this order.

Article 8. Subjects required to constitute the legal deposit in the case of electronic documents and websites.

1. The liability of the legal deposit of the electronic documents referred to in Article 4 of this Law shall be borne by its publisher or producer.

2. Conservation centres, both state-owned and autonomic, are enabled to detect and reproduce electronic documents that have been the subject of public communication and websites freely accessible through networks of communications which may be of interest for the purposes of the legal deposit, respecting in any case the legislation on data protection and intellectual property. The publishers of websites referred to in Article 4 of this law of the duty of legal deposit are exonerated.

CHAPTER III

From the administration of the legal repository

Article 9. Depository and conservation centers.

1. The offices of legal deposit to be determined by the Autonomous Communities in the field of their jurisdiction are depository centres.

2. The Spanish National Library and those to be determined by the Autonomous Communities in the field of their competence are conservation centres.

Article 10. National Library of Spain.

1. The National Library of Spain is part of the Spanish Library System according to the Law 10/2007, of June 22, of the Reading, of the Book and of the Libraries.

2. It is up to the Spanish National Library to draw up the Spanish Bibliography, as well as to provide the information needed to compile the statistics of publications that are the subject of legal deposit.

3. The National Library of Spain will exercise the high inspection and monitoring of compliance with the regulations on the legal deposit.

4. The National Library of Spain is a conservation center, at least:

(a) two copies of the first editions, reeditions of books, brochures and multimedia resources in which at least one of the media is on paper,

(b) a copy of each of the binding, in the event of multiple binding of the same edition,

(c) two copies of scores, journals, journals and all types of continuous resources, as well as maps, plans, atlas, or the like,

d) a copy of the official bulletins that are not available on the network,

e) a copy of the textbooks for Early Childhood Education, Primary, Compulsory Secondary, Baccalaureate and Vocational Training,

(f) a copy of the bibliophile books, such as the limited number of the books for a restricted public, which are numbered and of high formal quality,

g) a copy of the artistic books, understood by such the total or partially edited by means of artisans for the reproduction of artistic works, those that include original prints (illustrations executed in direct or manual form), or those in which craft binding has been used,

h) a copy of the original prints made with any technique,

i) a copy of the edited photographs,

j) a copy of the sound recordings,

k) a copy of the audiovisual documents,

l) a copy of the electronic publications. In the case of video media, if an edition is made for the sale and another for the rental, the deposit of the copy will be made for the sale.

m) a copy of the corresponding files of the electronic documents without tangible physical support likely to be downloaded in self-sufficient environments,

n) a copy of microforms, and

n) a copy of the postcards of landscapes and cities.

5. No copies of sheets, chromes, cards, greeting cards and postal cards shall be delivered, except for those listed in the preceding paragraph; nor for the items of objections issued by the academies themselves providing the teaching; or copy of any of the computer applications.

Article 11. Legal deposit offices.

1. The offices of legal deposit of the Autonomous Communities, in respect of which the obligation of legal deposit of the copies described in Article 4 shall be made effective, shall be those that facilitate such copies to the aforementioned conservation centres in Article 9 of this Act.

2. The persons responsible for the offices of legal deposit of the Autonomous Communities shall exercise the inspector's function in their respective demarcation in the terms laid down in the regulations of their Autonomous Community, without prejudice to the high inspection that corresponds to the National Library of Spain.

CHAPTER IV

From the constitution of the legal deposit

Article 12. Constitution of the deposit.

1. The legal deposit must be lodged with the legal deposit office to be determined by the Autonomous Community in which the publisher has its registered office through the system established by this law, and always before its distribution or sale. In the event of non-compliance with the legal deposit obligation, the work may not be distributed.

2. Each publication may only have a legal deposit number, without prejudice to Article 14 (3) and (4

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3. The works must be deposited in their entirety.

4. The daily press and periodicals will be considered as subscriptions to ensure the immediate delivery of the same at the legal deposit offices.

5. In the event of the filing of an incomplete or defective copy of a work subject to deposit, the obligated must deposit, upon request of the competent legal deposit office and within the time limit established, a new copy complete and without any defects.

Article 13. Establishment of the electronic publishing repository.

1. Any electronic publication shall be deposited in such a way as to ensure that no key introduction is necessary for its reading and with all the manuals, as well as, where appropriate, the software accompanying it, for the sole purposes of investigation and conservation.

2. The depositor is required to provide the information necessary to transfer the data from the original support to the conservation support.

3. Electronic publications whose use expires in time must be delivered so that they can be consulted without a time limit.

Article 14. The legal deposit number.

1. The person required to make the legal deposit of a work published in a tangible support will request the corresponding number of legal deposit before the production or printing of the document ends.

2. The number of legal deposit shall be composed of the acronym DL, or the equivalent of the Autonomous Communities, the acronym corresponding to each Office, the number of constitution of the deposit and the year of incorporation of the deposit, in four figures. The various parts of the legal deposit number shall be separated by a space, except for the year preceding a indent. At the end of each year the numbering will be closed, which will start again at the beginning of the year.

3. They will always keep a single number of legal deposit:

a) Continued resources, periodicals, such as journals and journals, serial publications and integrable resources, even if their periodicity is variable. If the publisher or printer in your case changes its domicile, the legal deposit number of the publications collected at this point must be maintained. For these purposes, the same number of legal deposits shall be maintained for periodicals that are disseminated on several media, such as these graphics, electronic or integrable resources.

b) Works on multiple volumes.

If a work consists of more than one document, each of them, whatever its support, must have the same legal deposit number.

4. They will bring their own legal deposit number to parallel editions on different media.

If there is more than one edition of the same work, each of them will carry a different legal deposit number, except for the different editions of the journals, which will be published under the same legal deposit number.

5. Any publication in tangible form shall bear the legal deposit number in a visible and identifiable place.

In the case of publications in book format, the legal deposit number must appear on the same print sheet as the ISBN, and may be entered on the back of the cover or back cover of the work.

In the case of newspaper-formatted serial publications, the deposit number must appear on the stained-box.

6. For works not published in tangible physical support, the Government shall establish the form of allocation of the legal deposit number in accordance with the standard numerical identifier accepted by the competent international bodies.

Article 15. Subsidiary execution of the legal deposit.

In the event of non-compliance with the obligation to set up the legal deposit, the Office of Legal Deposit, or at the request of the body of the Autonomous Community competent in matters of legal deposit, will require the person responsible to proceed to it within a maximum of one month.

CHAPTER V

Of violations and penalties

Article 16. Sanctioning power.

1. The sanctioning authority governed by this law shall be exercised in accordance with the provisions of this Law and Law No 30/1992 of 26 November of the Legal Regime of Public Administrations and of the Common Administrative Procedure.

2. Sanctioning powers shall be the responsibility of the competent bodies of the Autonomous Communities.

Article 17. Responsible.

It will be responsible for administrative violations of legal deposit for persons who, by action or omission, incur the alleged offenses as violations in this law.

Article 18. Minor infractions.

Constitute minor violations:

(a) The absence of the legal deposit of a publication that is the subject of the publication in the deadlines and the number of copies required in this law.

(b) The distribution of copies of a publication subject to a legal deposit that lacks the corresponding number or has not been the subject of a deposit.

Article 19. Serious infringements.

Constitute serious violations:

a) The fraudulent or fraudulent manipulation of the legal deposit number.

b) The recidivism in the commission of minor infraction.

c) The submission of false data by the persons required to provide them for the constitution of the legal deposit.

d) Obstruction of the inspector function.

e) The refusal of those responsible for online electronic publications restricted or limited to allow access to the depository centres or to those designated by them, for the purpose of fulfilling their function as a legal deposit.

Article 20. Penalties.

1. For the commission of a minor infringement the penalty of between 1,000 and 2,000 euros will be imposed, according to the corresponding autonomy regulations.

2. For the commission of serious infractions the penalty of fines of between 2,001 to 30,000 euros will be imposed, according to the corresponding autonomic regulations.

3. The amounts of these infringements may be updated by the Government in accordance with the evolution of the officially published Consumer Price Index.

4. The imposition of sanctions does not exempt the obligation to constitute the legal deposit.

Additional disposition first. Collaboration conventions.

In order to collect materials not subject to the obligation of legal deposit, it will be promoted the signing of collaboration agreements with the editors, responsible for the registration of the domain, for their collection to the centers of deposit provided for in this law.

Additional provision second. The sector's participation body.

An advisory body will be set up in the field of legal deposit in which all the sectors concerned will be represented, and whose composition and functions will be determined regulatively. Among its functions will include, among others, the proposal to the Autonomous Communities of coordinated actions and integration for the effective fulfillment of the objectives of the legal deposit of this law.

In any case, a representative of each of the Autonomous Communities and a representative of the Office of the Coordination of Official Publications of the General Administration of the State will be part of that consultative body.

Additional provision third. Copies for public libraries to be determined by the Autonomous Communities with an official language.

The publishers and in their absence or in their case, the producer, printer, stammer or engraver who produced materials in any official language other than the Spanish language, and even when their production will be carried out in a territory of the Where the only official language is that of the State as a whole, they shall also provide a copy to the public library or centre to be determined by the Autonomous Communities with an official language.

Single repeal provision. Regulatory repeal.

All rules of the same or lower rank that contradict or oppose the provisions of this law, and expressly, as regards the legal deposit, the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of October 30, are repealed. of 1971 and the Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of 20 February 1973.

Final disposition first. Competence title.

This law is dictated by article 149.2 of the Spanish Constitution, as well as by article 149.1.31. for the precepts that regulate the state statistical information.

Final disposition second. Regulatory enablement.

It is for the Government and the Autonomous Communities, within the scope of their respective competences, to make the necessary provisions for the development and implementation of this law.

When for reasons of preservation of the bibliographic, sound, visual, audiovisual and digital Spanish heritage, an increase in the number of copies to be deposited in the National Library of Spain is revealed as necessary. in the public library or centre determined by the Autonomous Community as a conservation centre, or where the technical or cultural circumstances so advise, the sectors concerned may be determined to be a different number of copies.

Final disposition third. Regulatory development.

Within the maximum period of one year, the Government, on a proposal from the head of the Ministry of Culture, will regulate by means of Royal Decree and in the field of its competences, heard the Autonomous Communities and the sectors involved, the procedure of the deposit of electronic publications.

Final disposition fourth. Entry into force.

This law shall enter into force six months after its publication in the Official Gazette of the State, except as provided for in Articles 8 (1) and 13 (1), which shall enter into force upon the entry into force of the Royal Decree mentioned in the third final disposition.

Therefore,

I command all Spaniards, individuals and authorities, to keep and keep this law.

Madrid, 29 July 2011.

JOHN CARLOS R.

The President of the Government

JOSE LUIS RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO