I

The fundamental right of association, recognized in Article 22 of the Spanish Constitution, has been developed by the Organic Law 1/2002, of March 22, regulating the Law of Association.

This organic law, which offers an integral regulation of the right of association, constitutionally established in the principle of associative freedom, disowns the public authorities, on the one hand, from powers of preventive control or, as the law itself says, of powers that could involve material control of legalization or recognition of associations and, on the other hand, of attributions that involve intervention or interference in their internal functioning. In this way, associations are born to the law from the very moment of the founding agreement adopted by the promoters, acquiring legal personality and full capacity to act, and they are endowed with their own rules of organization and functioning through the corresponding statutes.

However, for reasons of legal certainty, it is a practice established in our law that the associations to register in a register which, as set out above, have no constitutive effect, are the sole object of giving publicity to the existence of the same. It is for this reason that the principles of freedom and voluntarism which underpin the exercise of the right of association are compatible with the constancy of associations in administrative registers for the sole purpose of advertising. In particular, the registration makes public the constitution and the statutes of the associations and is guarantee not only for the partners but also for the third parties that with them are related. The registration, therefore, in spite of its merely declarative nature, is an act of undoubted importance for the security of the legal traffic, in which the associative entities intervene in a growing way, developing activities of very varied nature, economic, loan, assistance, advice, promotion or defence of interests.

II

From the point of view of the organization, Chapter V of the Organic Law 1/2002, of March 22, refers to the different registers of associations, among them, the National Registry of Associations.

The Register is attributed to the registration of the associations of State-wide, those that do not mainly develop their functions in the territorial scope of an autonomous community and of the associations Foreign nationals carrying out activities in Spain in a stable manner. Moreover, Article 25 of the organic law refers to the regulatory development of the determination of its organic dependence, structure and operation.

Such a forecast was fulfilled by the publication of the Regulation of the National Registry of Associations and its relations with the other records of associations, approved by Royal Decree 1497/2003 of 28 November. This regulation, structured in three titles, regulated the different registration procedures, established the organic dependency, the organization and operation of the Registry, and its relations with other registers of associations and with the rest of Public Administrations.

However, more than ten years since its adoption, some shortcomings and shortcomings have been highlighted which prevent the provision of a public service that benefits a broad spectrum of society from improving Spanish. Much more if you consider that the National Register of Associations has gained a progressive importance as a consequence of the vitality of the associative movement. If at the entry into force of the Organic Law 1/2002 of March 22, the number of associations registered in this register barely exceeded 20,000, today that number is approaching 50,000.

The amenable aspects of improvement reach all the contents of the current standard, so its partial modification would prevent the overall and coherent reform being pursued, ordered to satisfy both the needs of the citizens, who demand clearer and simpler administrative procedures, such as the needs of the Registry itself, which needs to update its structure and function from the accumulated experience, from the reception of the principles and rules common to public records of legal persons and possibilities The various instruments of electronic administration are offered today.

All of the above is a set of reasons that advise the development of a new regulatory standard, through which the objectives that are pursued are satisfied. On the one hand, making it easier for citizens to fulfil their formal obligations. On the other hand, setting up the Register as a transparent, agile and technologically advanced public service. Finally, it will encourage accessibility to full, reliable and quality information as a guarantee for legal certainty. Comprehensive and up-to-date information that should be available to both citizens and the Public Administrations and the Courts of Justice when these institutions require them for the exercise of their duties.

And all this from absolute respect to the principle of minimum intervention, in such a way that the Registry is attributed the necessary tasks to practice with guarantees the registration and updating of the data of the associations.

III

The Regulation adopts a different and more logical structure, starting with addressing the configuration of the Registry itself, and then regulating the different ways of practicing the inscriptions. In particular, it is structured in three titles, by means of which the general provisions and the guiding principles are established; the organization and operation of the register are ordered and the rules of collaboration with the others are established. associations registers; and the different forms of registration are regulated, with particular attention to the registration procedures initiated at the request of the interested parties.

The preliminary title contains the general provisions, referring to the object of the Register, its character and organic dependence, which is maintained in the Ministry of the Interior, and to the principles of its functioning.

It is clearly defined that the object of the Register is the registration of non-profit associations at the state level that can be qualified as general or common regime, so that, on the one hand, they are excluded associations with a regional level and, on the other hand, associations whose registration is specified by the specific legislation provides for the corresponding special registers.

In order not to distort the nature of the types of association groupings that the organic law contemplates, the concept of federation, confederation and union is offered for the first time, defining them as entities second-degree associations, which can only be promoted by legal persons of an associative nature and registered in the corresponding register of associations.

The configurator principles, in line with those that are typical of this type of record, are collected as guiding guidelines that serve the integration and interpretation of the standard.

In addition, a consolidated reality is plasma, but it is now explicit and promoted, which is the management of the Registry, the practice of the seats, the storage of information and the relationship with the citizens through means IT and telematics, in line with the principles set out in the legislation on electronic access to public services and the National Safety and Interoperability Schemes, which constitute the regulatory context in which frame the actions of an electronic nature which, for the Registry, are indicated throughout the text. In particular, it provides for the possibility, already established for other public registers, of direct access to the data in the Register by the public authorities and the judicial bodies, provided that their functions are carried out and under your responsibility.

Title I regulates the organization and operation of the Registry.

On the one hand, an important simplification of its structure is undertaken, which is organized in four sections, according to the attribution of powers that Article 25 of the Organic Law 1/2002, of March 22, excludes for that Register any function recorded in respect of the associations of the autonomic field and those subject to a specific regime. In this way, the Sections are established for the exclusive treatment of associations, federations, confederations and associations of associations of state, youth associations of identical scope of action and of Foreign associations acting in a stable or lasting manner in Spain. In addition, as a service to the citizen, the file of names, their content and form of access is contemplated, and the object of which is to make known the entities previously registered in the registers of associations, in order to avoid duplicity or similarity of names.

On the other hand, the functions of the Registry are determined and developed, limited to qualifying and registering the acts to be accessed, depositing the required documentation and advertising to the seats and documents. In particular, it is pointed out that associative acts are susceptible of registration and that documents are of obligatory deposit, as well as the different ways of giving publicity to the content of the seats and the documents, with respect, in everything case, of the regulations on the protection of personal data.

This title highlights the following new features.

They regulate and define the different types of seats that can be practiced in the Register, overcoming the narrow concept of registration and rectification that until now allowed the registration sheets. This is intended to accommodate any circumstance of relevance that occurs during the life of the association and to classify it according to its nature, allowing to have a complete and orderly information that will serve effectively to the essential advertising principle.

The record sheet, seat support, is configured as "electronic record sheet", so the information processing will be done exclusively through electronic procedures.

This is also a major legal vacuum through the regulation of two situations of unquestionable importance for legal traffic, such as mergers and transformations of associations, which until now had not been adequately addressed. constancy. It is therefore considered how to register both the alleged merger between two or more associations in order to create a new one, such as the merger by absorption, as well as defined, to the sole effects of this regulation, which is understood as a transformation, In this respect both the modification of the territorial scope of action, of the state to autonomic and vice versa, and the change of the legal regime of the association, when it ceases to be governed by the general and common regime of the Organic Law 1/2002, of March 22, to undergo a specific associative regime and vice versa.

The importance of accurately contemplating the regime of associations that are transformed, either by reduction of scope or by subjection to a special legal regime, is emphasized, as with this they eliminate the possible situations of legal uncertainty or indetermination of responsibilities which could be derived from the absence of advertising during the time between the discharge in the Register and the discharge in another separate register. To this end, by means of the figure of the provisional discharge, the maintenance of the association transformed in the Register is established until it has been established that it is registered in the autonomous or special register that corresponds to it.

Conversely, the formal channel is established to produce the registration in the Register of those associations initially registered in the autonomous and special registers but which subsequently decide to extend their scope The Court of Justice of the European Court of Justice of the European Court of Justice of the European Union is a member of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Although these cases assume that such entities have access to the Register for the first time, the formal obligations required at the time of filing are simplified, with the Registry itself requiring the competent body to background necessary to complete the dossier. For the rest, the entities are subject to all the contents of the Regulation that regulates the National Register of Associations.

Without a doubt, one of the most important aspects of partnerships, as it is generally for all legal entities, is the need to identify them by a name that will distinguish them and distinguish them as subjects. Law.

The name affects the identity of the associations, individualizes their actions and directly affects the security of the legal traffic.

Therefore, on the basis of the legal requirements for suitability, lawfulness and availability, a set of criteria to be taken into account, on the one hand, by the associative entities at the time of their application, are collected in some detail. establish their name and, on the other hand, by the Registry itself to deal with guarantees with the subsanations which, if necessary, are necessary. These criteria for action are, moreover, broadly based on all public records of legal persons, whether state or regional.

With this precise regulation is intended to facilitate the establishment of the denomination, since the organic law, in addition to prohibiting the identity of names, also prohibits the similarity, although it is only in the case that it can create confusion. While the assumption of identity offers less doubt, however, which sets out the criteria necessary to avoid duplicity of names, that of the similarity requires the citizens to make a double assessment: the first, to appreciate the and the second, to determine if it can lead to a mistake in the legal traffic.

Therefore, it is considered that the requirements and limits that are established result from the maximum usefulness for the interested parties, at the time of the constitution of the association, and subsequently for the Registry, during the the registration procedure, reducing the margins of discretion which, until now, due to the lack of more complete regulation, have had a negative impact on legal certainty.

As a novelty, the person concerned is eliminated the burden of presenting in any case a certificate of translation of the denomination, when this is in an official language other than Spanish or in a foreign language, which can only be used be required by the Registry when deemed necessary.

In addition, understanding that they correspond to a different scope and that confusing situations may arise from their use, names that include Internet domains such as ". is", ". com", ". net", ". org", are not permitted. among others.

Also, in the case of merger, it is anticipated that the acquiring association or the new association resulting from the merger may take as its name any of those that are extant by virtue of the merger, with no effect the remaining names.

addition, and within this title, certain questions concerning the codification of activities are regulated, the permanent updating of the identity of the members of the representative bodies and the foreign associations, and details of the treatment to be given to certain situations of particular relevance such as those of transformation and fusion, the discrepancies of internal order and the important act of dissolution of the associations. These are all aspects that have an impact on the functioning of the Registry and that, either because of its novelty or because it requires day-to-day management, they must have an express regulation.

With regard to, in particular, the discrepancies between partners that communicate to the Registry, it is recalled, from the principle of non-interference of the Administration in the operation of the associations, that the Registry does not (a) shall not be written in writing by the members of the court, and shall only reflect those discrepancies of internal order which have been the subject of a judicial complaint and thus be established by the filing of the and of their admission to processing.

With full respect for the principle of the distribution of powers between the State and the autonomous communities and the allocation of powers between administrative bodies, two important rules of action are established, the applications for registration lodged with the Register by the autonomous and special associations shall be forwarded to the body responsible for processing. With regard to the latter, that is to say, associations subject to a specific legal system, whose registration in a special register is compulsory, only applications shall be admissible where a State rule with a law-range establishes its prior registration in the National Register of Associations. With this second rule, in addition, it is intended to avoid cases of double registration, not covered by the Organic Law 1/2002, of March 22, except that, at least, a state law imposes on citizens the burden of requesting twice, in two different records, the enrollment of a single association.

Finally, the relations of collaboration between the Registry and the other registers of associations, and other public registers and administrative bodies are established, as is expressly stated that, in any case, it will facilitate the registration information as required by the Courts and Courts.

Title II refers to the registration procedures.

For the first time, it is distinguished between the registrations practiced at the request of the interested parties and those that are made of trade. Among the latter are the inscriptions ordered by the Courts and Tribunals, whose resolutions will communicate directly to the Registry, which will allow the obligation to submit to the Registry the applications for registration and constancy. They will also have the consideration of trade marks which refer to the declaration and revocation of the public utility of the associations, since the competence lies with the Ministry of the Interior itself and is a matter of acts of mandatory publication in the "Official State Gazette".

As for the actual registration procedures, it is also distinguished for the first time between the rules common to all procedures and the specific ones for each of them.

Chapter I, on common rules, sets out the general administrative procedure along with those provided for in Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March. Thus, a complete procedure is contemplated in its various phases of initiation, instruction and resolution, where they reflect aspects such as the requirements required for the applications, the deadline for submission, the processing of the subhealing, the request for reports to other administrative bodies, hearing, time limit for resolution, effects of silence and appeals against acts of registration or refusal of registration.

This chapter highlights the establishment of minimum prevention for when interested parties communicate outside the legal period of one month the modification or updating of the data contained in the Register. In no case will the registration of the new information be refused, but it will be possible to require a certificate of proof that the same one is in force, since only the permanent correspondence of the Registry with the extra-registry reality allows to give satisfaction at the beginning of advertising.

The possibility of the instructor to ask other administrative bodies to report to other administrative bodies is also removed from the common administrative procedure where the name, purpose, activities and other statutory contents may affect the the scope of its powers, in particular, in order to prevent such a name from being confused with any official character or for the purposes of the exercise by the association of public administrative functions. This option has been revealed as necessary in a large number of procedures for the formation of associations, the transformation of associations, the modification of statutes and the opening of delegations in Spain of foreign associations, is expressly welcomed in order to provide the Registry, in each case, with the necessary elements of judgment to be resolved.

And it is also considered relevant that the rule expressly provides for the alleged refusal of the requested registration, when the association does not comply with the general requirements laid down in the law, or in the case of entities which do not present the legal nature of association or are directly excluded from the scope of the Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March 2002. This kind of resolution is covered by Articles 24 and 30.3 of that organic law, and by the constitutional case-law itself, which only affects the exercise of the fundamental right of association when the refusal to register is not (a) appropriate motivation or may be described as unfounded or arbitrary.

For its part, Chapter II relates all the possible registration procedures and details for each of them the specific requirements to be taken into account by the interested parties when making the application and accompanying them. the required documentation. In this respect, it is stressed that the burden on the parties involved is to present a duplicate of the basic act and the original or amended statutes. It is thus eliminated an obligation that has curiously remained constant in our legal order since the first Law of Associations of 1887, but which is no longer justified. In this same sense, the Royal Decree 397/1988 of 22 April, which regulates the registration of youth associations, is amended, in order to eliminate the burden for this type of association to be presented by trebled of the founding act and the statutes when applying for the registration of the entity. In addition, the type of documentation that has been required up to now for the associations is generally maintained, as the minimum necessary to produce with guarantees the respective inscriptions, and it is added, for a small number of procedures, the ability of the Registry to request data subjects for a data update certificate, where this is necessary to avoid fragmentation of the information and to ensure the consistency of the register advertising.

In particular, the registration of associations, federations, confederations and associations of associations, the transformation of associations, the modification of the statutes, of associations, of associations, of associations, of associations, of associations, of associations, boards or bodies of representation, opening and closing of delegations or establishments, of incorporation and separation of associations to a federation, confederation or association of associations or of their membership in international entities, the merger and dissolution of any of the associated associations, and delegations in Spain from foreign associations.

From this relationship, as mentioned above, the procedures for applying for the registration of the merger and the transformation of associations are regulated ex novo, and for all of them, in general, the procedures are determined in detail. requirements for the applications and the accompanying documentation to be submitted in the Register, as a guarantee of the greatest certainty for the data subjects.

That is, the regulation of procedures, in their general and specific aspects, is carried out in a comprehensive manner to benefit legal certainty and to prevent citizens from having to conduct constant consultations or clarifications to the Register arising from eventual regulatory insufficiency.

Therefore, more detail and less burdens are elements that are in the interest of the objective of setting up more clear and simple procedures.

This will also contribute to the making available to citizens of application models for each registration procedure, adapted to the new requirements of the Regulation, as well as other mandatory documents contribution, such as founding minutes, statutes or certificates.

IV

Two other important issues concerning the activity of the associations are addressed, which are remarkable news.

On the one hand, the first transitional provision of the Organic Law 1/2002, of 22 March, provides that the associations registered prior to their entry into force must, within two years, communicate to the register The competent authorities of the Member State concerned shall: On the contrary, at present, there are more than 14,000 entities registered in the National Registry of Associations that have failed to fulfil this obligation, that is to say, associations that were constituted and registered under the Law 191/1964, of 24 December, of Associations, and that they have not communicated to be in operation nor promoted the inscription of any associative act during, at least, the last twelve years. Therefore, in order to seek the permanent correspondence between the associative reality and the registration reality, it is considered relevant, for the purposes of advertising and in the guarantee of third parties, to enable the Registry to take the record of this situation by means of marginal note, which will be cancelled when such associations present the mandatory statement of activity and operation.

On the other hand, and in order to carry out an organization of the entities that favors the registration and the statistical function, the codes of activities of the associations are published, as an annex to the Regulation. Given the extent and complexity of the purposes that associations have included in their statutes, it is chosen to publish a list of codes to be the associations themselves which, at the time of the application for registration, identify their main or most characteristic activity. This option, however, is configured as an option for the interested parties, so, failing that, the Registry will proceed to the classification of the entity. The codification has been drawn up on a decimal basis and, in respect of its content, account has been taken of the set of actions which are most common among the associations, with some unknown or less relevant among them being added to the list. associative collective a decade ago, such as those related to the Internet, social networks, sustainable development, dependency, corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship or co-development. In any case, such a code should be adapted at any time to social developments, so that, for the purposes of its updating, it is expected to be modified by ministerial order.

V

Finally, it is used to modify in certain respects the Royal Decree 1740/2003, of December 19, on procedures relating to associations of public utility.

Thus, and in order to verify the requirements inherent in the declaration of public utility, Article 2 of Royal Decree 1740/2003 of 19 December is amended to collect the obligation of the interested parties to present a separate memory for each of the two financial years preceding the date of submission of the application. Article 5 is also amended to update the accounting standard applicable to this type of entity, i.e. the current Royal Decree 1491/2011 of 24 October, approving the rules for the adaptation of the General Accounting Plan to the non-profit-making entities and the model of the performance plan of the non-profit-making entities.

This royal decree has been submitted to the report of the Spanish Data Protection Agency.

In its virtue, on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior, with the prior approval of the Minister of Finance and Public Administrations, according to the State Council and after deliberation by the Council of Ministers at its meeting of the day 23 October 2015,

DISPONGO:

Single item. Approval of the Regulation of the National Register of Associations.

The Regulation of the National Register of Associations is approved, the text of which is inserted below.

Additional disposition first. Records of associations in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla.

In the cities of Ceuta and Melilla there will be a register of associations, which will be located in the respective Government Delegation. Such records shall exercise their competence in respect of associations which primarily develop their activities in the respective territorial scope of Ceuta and Melilla.

Additional provision second. No increase in public spending.

The measures included in the Regulation of the National Register of Associations may not result in an increase in appropriations or salaries or other personnel costs.

Single repeal provision. Regulatory repeal.

Royal Decree 1497/2003 of 28 November 2003, approving the Regulation of the National Register of Associations and its relations with the other registers of associations, and the provisions of the same or lower rank object to the provisions of this royal decree and in the regulations that it approves.

Final disposition first. Amendment of Royal Decree 1740/2003 of 19 December on procedures relating to public utility associations.

Royal Decree 1740/2003 of 19 December, on procedures relating to public utility associations, is amended in the following terms:

One. Article 2 (2) (a) shall read as follows:

" (a) Memoirs, in which the activities which have been developed uninterrupted during the two annual economic years preceding the year in which the application is submitted are reflected. Both memories, one for each financial year, must be signed by the members of the board or body representing the entity. "

Two. Article 5 (2) is worded as follows:

" 2. The annual accounts of the declared public utility entities, which are comprehensive on the balance sheet, the profit and loss account and the economic memory, shall be made in accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 1491/2011 of 24 October 2011. the rules for the adaptation of the General Accounting Plan to non-profit-making entities and the model of the action plan of non-profit-making entities, and their implementing rules, or the rule that replaces them are approved. '

Final disposition second. Amendment of Royal Decree 397/1988 of 22 April, governing the registration of youth associations.

Article 2 (1) of Royal Decree 397/1988 of 22 April 1988 on the registration of youth associations is hereby worded as follows:

" 1. In order to be registered in the registers referred to in the previous Article, a request shall be made by the person or persons acting on behalf of the association, including the minutes of incorporation and the statutes, signed in all of its pages. "

Final disposition third. Competence title.

1. In accordance with the first provision of the Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March, Articles 9.2, 26.3, 32 and the fifth additional provision of the Regulation of the National Register of Associations are issued pursuant to Article 149.1.1. Spanish Constitution.

2. The remaining articles of the Regulation shall apply to associations at the State level.

Final disposition fourth. Faculty of development.

The Minister of the Interior is empowered to lay down the rules necessary for the development and implementation of the Regulation of the National Register of Associations.

In particular, the Annex to the Regulation may be amended in order.

Final disposition fifth. Entry into force.

This royal decree will enter into force on December 1, 2015.

Given in Oviedo, on October 23, 2015.

FELIPE R.

The Minister of the Interior,

JORGE FERNANDEZ DIAZ

REGULATION OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION REGISTER

INDEX

Preliminary title. General provisions.

Article 1. Purpose of the Regulation.

Article 2. The National Registry of Associations.

Article 3. Nature and organic dependence.

Article 4. Principles of action.

Article 5. Effectiveness.

Article 6. Management by electronic means.

Title I. Organization and operation of the Registry.

Chapter I. Organization.

Article 7. Structure.

Article 8. Content of Sections.

Article 9. Association name file.

Chapter II. Operation.

Section 1. Functions.

Article 10. Functions.

Article 11. Inscribable acts.

Article 12. Documentation to be deposited.

Article 13. Advertising.

Article 14. Types of seats.

Article 15. How to practice seats.

Article 16. Error rectification.

Article 17. Electronic record sheet.

Article 18. Constancy of the address and identity.

Article 19. Register sheets of Sections 1, 2, 2 and

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Article 20. Section 4 registration

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Article 21. Documentation file.

Section 2. Names.

Article 22. Requirements for designations.

Article 23. Limits of the denominations.

Section 3. Other Operating Provisions.

Article 24. Activity codes.

Article 25. Boards.

Article 26. Transformation of associations.

Article 27. Merging associations.

Article 28. Dissolution of associations.

Article 29. Foreign associations.

Article 30. Internal order contests.

Article 31. Decisions on competition.

Chapter III. Administrative collaboration.

Article 32. Collaboration with other association records.

Article 33. Collaboration with other agencies.

Title II. Registration procedures.

Chapter I. Rules common to registration procedures initiated at the request of interested parties.

Article 34. Types of inscriptions.

Article 35. Submission of requests.

Article 36. Requirements for the requests.

Article 37. Deadline for submission.

Article 38. Processing of the procedure.

Article 39. Resolution of the procedure.

Article 40. Deadline for resolution and effects of silence.

Article 41. Resources on administrative path.

Chapter II. Registration procedures initiated at the request of the interested parties.

Section 1. Enrollment of association constitution.

Article 42. Enrollment initiative.

Article 43. Documents to be attached to the request.

Section 2. Enrollment of the constitution of federations, confederations and associations of associations.

Article 44. Enrollment initiative.

Article 45. Documents to be attached to the request.

Section 3. Enrollment of Associations Transformation.

Article 46. Entities registered in the National Register of Associations.

Article 47. Regional associations.

Article 48. Special associations.

Section 4. Inscription of Bylaws modification.

Article 49. Deadline for submitting the application.

Article 50. Documents to be attached to the request.

Section 5. Enrollment of the identity of the holders of the Board of Directors or the representation body.

Article 51. Deadline for submitting the application.

Article 52. Documents to be attached to the request.

Section 6. Enrollment opening and closing of delegations and establishments.

Article 53. Deadline for submitting the application.

Article 54. Documents to be attached to the request.

Section 7. Enrollment of incorporation and separation of associations to federations, confederations and unions, or of any of these to international entities.

Article 55. Enrollment initiative.

Article 56. Deadline for submitting the application.

Article 57. Requirements for the request.

Article 58. Documents to be attached to the request.

Section 8. Association Merge Enrollment.

Article 59. Deadline for submitting the application.

Article 60. Documents to be attached to the request.

Section 9. Enrollment of Dissolution of Associations.

Article 61. Deadline for submitting the application.

Article 62. Documents to be attached to the request.

Section 10. Enrollment of delegations in spain of foreign associations.

Article 63. Request.

Article 64. Documents to be attached to the request.

Article 65. Obligations of the foreign association.

Article 66. Language of the procedure.

Chapter III. Craft registrations.

Article 67. Court decisions.

Article 68. Public utility of the associations.

Additional disposition first. Extra application.

Additional provision second. Request and document models.

Additional provision third. Fees.

Additional provision fourth. Denominations.

Additional provision fifth. Transformation of autonomous and special associations.

Additional provision sixth. Adaptation of statutes and declaration of activity and operation.

Additional provision seventh. Consumer and user associations.

First transient disposition. Associations in the process of registration and pending registration of registered associations.

Second transient disposition. Classification of activities.

PRELIMINARY TITLE

General provisions

Article 1. Purpose of the Regulation.

1. This Regulation aims to regulate the National Register of Associations, its structure and operation, the procedures for registration and its relations with other registers of associations and with the other organs of the Administration, as well as establish their organic dependence.

2. References in this Regulation to associations shall also be construed as references to federations, confederations and associations of associations, without prejudice to the specifications which may be provided in each case.

Article 2. The National Registry of Associations.

1. The National Register of Associations aims at the registration of associations, federations, confederations and associations of associations of the state, and of all those that do not mainly develop their functions in the field a single autonomous community, provided that, in both cases, they are not for profit and are not subject to a specific associative regime.

2. For the purposes of the above paragraph, and in accordance with Article 3 (f) of the Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March 2002, the law of association is to be regarded as federations, confederations and unions. associations of associations of the second degree, whose promoters are legal persons of an associative nature constituted under the protection of that organic law and registered in the National Register of Associations or in the corresponding registers autonomic associations.

In particular, federations and unions are considered to be promoted by three or more associations, and confederations the entities promoted by a minimum of three federations.

3. Likewise, it is up to the Registry to register the delegations of the foreign associations that carry out activities in Spain in a stable or lasting way.

Article 3. Nature and organic dependence.

The National Register of Associations is a public register, of an administrative nature and unique for the entire territory of the State.

The organ in charge of its management is based in Madrid and is dependent on the Technical General Secretariat of the Ministry of the Interior.

Article 4. Principles of action.

The Registry is subject to the following principles of action:

(a) Legality: the Registry shall qualify the legality of the extrinsic forms of the documents under which the registration and validity of its contents are requested.

(b) Legitimation: the Registry shall verify the capacity and legitimisation of persons who grant or subscribe to the documents under which registration is requested.

(c) Hereinafter referred to as " to register amending or extinguishing acts of others previously granted shall be necessary prior to the registration of such acts.

d) Integrity: it is up to the Registry to treat the content of the seats and ensure that appropriate measures are applied to prevent their handling.

e) Advertising: the Register makes the constitution, the statutes, the organs of representation of associations and other acts of incorporation public.

Article 5. Effectiveness.

1. The content of the Register is presumed to be accurate and valid. Seats shall produce their effects as long as the judicial or administrative decision declaring their inaccuracy or nullity is not exhausted.

2. The seats in the Register do not validate the legal acts or acts of the associations that are null and void in accordance with the laws.

Article 6. Management by electronic means.

1. The Registry shall use systems based on information and communications technologies for the management of procedures, the practice and management of the registry and the storage of information, as well as in its relations with the citizens, in accordance with the provisions of the legislation regulating the electronic access of citizens to public services and their development regulations.

2. Such systems shall allow public administrations and judicial bodies, in the exercise of their powers and under their responsibility, to have access to the data of the National Register of Associations, but in the case of General government, with due regard for the exceptions relating to particularly protected data. Such access shall be carried out by electronic means and with the technical requirements and requirements set out in the National Interoperability and Safety Schemes.

3. The dimensioning, provision, administration and maintenance of such systems, which ensure their operation in accordance with the current regulations on information security and interoperability, as well as universal accessibility and design for all persons, it shall be the competence of the body assigned such privileges within the Department.

TITLE I

Organization and Operation of the Registry

CHAPTER I

Organization

Article 7. Structure.

The Registry is structured in the following sections:

Section 1.

Section 2. Federations, confederations, and associations of associations.

Section 3. Youth Associations.

Section 4. Delegations in Spain from foreign associations.

Article 8. Content of Sections.

Sections 1, 2, 2 and 3 are intended to group together and order associations, federations, confederations and associations of associations at the state level, and all those who do not primarily develop their functions in the territorial scope of a single autonomous community, as well as youth associations of equal scope.

The purpose of Section 4 is to group and order foreign associations with delegation in Spain.

Article 9. Association name file.

1 The Registry will carry a File of Association Denominations, which will be made available to citizens to provide informative publicity about the names of previously registered associative entities.

2. The contents of the file shall be composed of the names of the associations registered in the National Register of Associations and those of the associations registered in the autonomous and special registers, provided that such registration has been communicated by the competent body concerned.

For these purposes, and in order to keep the Denomination File updated, the Registry will receive the information that the autonomous and special registers provide to you about registration, modification of the name, dissolution and reduction of the associative entities of their competence.

The sending of the information by the autonomous and special registers of associations shall be carried out exclusively by means of procedures and electronic supports, adjusted to the requirements established by the General Secretariat Technique in coordination with the other competent bodies and with the technical units that provide telematics support to such organs.

3. The file will be accessible through the Ministry of Interior's central electronic headquarters.

4. The final dissolution of the entity, practiced by the corresponding registry, will result in the deletion of the name of the entity in the file.

CHAPTER II

Operation

Section 1. Functions

Article 10. Functions.

These are Registry functions:

a) Enroll the acts that need to access the Registry.

b) Deposit the required documentation.

c) Give advertising to the seats and documents deposited.

Article 11. Inscribable acts.

1. They shall be entered in the Register:

a) The name.

b) Statutory purposes and activities.

c) The address.

d) The territorial scope of action.

e) The identity of the board members or the representative body.

f) The date of the constitution and the date of registration.

g) The opening and closing of the entity's delegations or establishments.

h) The declaration and revocation of the public utility condition.

i) The entities that constitute or integrate federations, confederations or unions.

j) Membership of federations, confederations and unions or international entities.

k) The low, suspension or dissolution of the association, and its causes.

2. The amendments affecting the statutes shall also be entered in the terms referred to in Article 16 of Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March.

3. The tax identification number of the associations to be obtained in accordance with the tax rules may be entered, and they shall be communicated to the Registry on the occasion of the first registration of the entity or at any time back.

Article 12. Documentation to be deposited.

1. The following documentation provided by the interested parties shall be deposited in the Register:

a) The foundational act.

(b) The minutes in which the amending agreements of the data registers or the introduction of new data are recorded.

c) The statutes and their modifications.

(d) The opening, transfer or closure of delegations or establishments.

e) The reference to the incorporation or reduction of associations in federations, confederations and unions, or in international entities.

(f) The referred to the dissolution of the entity and, where appropriate, the destination given to the remaining assets.

2. In the case of foreign associations acting in a stable manner in Spain, the following documentation shall be deposited, presented by the institution itself translated into Spanish:

(a) Minutes of the meeting of the competent body, signed by the persons representing the association, in which the opening agreement of the delegation in Spain is included, with an indication of the main address of the such delegation.

(b) The supporting documentation of the validly constituted foreign association in accordance with its personal law, consisting of the certificate of registration, approval, legalization or recognition, issued by the competent authority of the country of origin.

c) The statutes or analogous document governing the organization and operation of the association.

(d) The documentation on the identity of the representatives in Spain, whether they are natural or legal persons, and the justification for their powers of representation.

3. They will also be deposited in the Register:

(a) Judicial decisions affecting acts which are subject to registration.

(b) Resolutions on which the declaration and the revocation of public utility of the associations are agreed.

Article 13. Advertising.

1. The Register shall make the advertising effective by certificate of the contents of the seats, simple information note, copy of the seats or documents deposited and through listings.

It may also be effective by displaying the seats and documents, upon the appearance of the persons concerned at the seat of the Registry.

2. The Registry shall ensure compliance with the Organic Law 15/1999 of 13 December on the protection of personal data, in respect of requests concerning personal data that have been recorded in the seats or in the documents, including judicial decisions which, where appropriate, are in the case of files.

3. The certificates, which can be issued in electronic form, are the only means of proving the content of the seats and documents deposited. In no case will the Register issue certifications on data corresponding to entities enrolled in other association records.

4. The simple information note or copy of the seats shall constitute a mere transfer of the register data.

5. The Register may provide information on associations by issuing listings. For this purpose, the data subject shall specify the search criteria, not the generic applications or the purpose of a dump of all the data in the Register.

The listings will include the name of the associations, their national registration number and their registered office.

6. The display of the seats and the documents deposited shall require the person concerned upon request, submitted in good time to the appearance, and shall be made in the presence of the competent staff.

7. The Register shall ensure compliance with the rules in force in respect of applications for mass advertising.

Article 14. Types of seats.

1. The Register may take the following seats:

a) Inscriptions.

b) Marginal notes.

c) Interim annotations.

d) Cancellations.

2. The acts referred to in Article 11, as well as their updates or amendments, are recorded by registration.

3. The marginal note will give reason for those acts of registration relevance, other than the previous ones, produced during the life of the association.

4. The provisional annotation shall be used to reflect the transient nature of any registration.

5. Cancellation produces the definitive deletion of any of the above seats.

Article 15. How to practice seats.

1. The seats shall be drawn up in the Spanish language and drawn up in a succinct manner, referring to the file containing the document forming the act to be registered.

2. In any case, the date on which the seat is applied shall be recorded.

Article 16. Error rectification.

Material errors, in fact or arithmetic, that are detected in the contents of the seats shall be rectified, either on their own initiative or at the request of the persons concerned, by the Registry itself.

Article 17. Electronic record sheet.

1. The Register shall practice the seats in registered sheets, which shall be drawn up exclusively in electronic form and contain the fields necessary for carrying out any type of seat.

2. The registration sheets of Sections 1, 2, 3, 3 and 4 shall contain a unique number, known as the 'national registration number', which shall be assigned in a correlative manner and shall identify each associative entity within the respective sections. They will also incorporate the case number where their documentation is archived.

Article 18. Constancy of the address and identity.

1. The record of the address for registration shall express the street and number or, in the absence thereof, the place of situation, and the locality, the municipality, the province and the postal code.

2. Where the association points out as the registered office of a public or private institution or entity, the Registry shall require that document attesting to the conformity with such a statement by that institution or entity.

3. For the constancy of the identity of a natural person, it shall be indicated:

a) The first and last names.

b) Nationality

c) The address.

d) The identification legal document number.

4. Identity documents are admitted to the identity card, the NIE and the passport in force, as well as any other proof of the identity validly issued by the country of origin of the promoter.

5. For the identification of legal persons, it shall be indicated:

a) The social reason or denomination.

b) Nationality.

c) The registered address.

d) The Tax Identification Number, when they must be obtained according to the tax rules.

Article 19. Register sheets of Sections 1, 2, 2 and

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The registration sheets of Sections 1, 2, 2, and 3 will contain the following data from the associative entity:

a) The naming

b) The Tax Identification Number, if any.

c) Fines and statutory activities in codified form.

d) The address.

e) Territorial scope of action.

(f) The identity of the president or legal representative and the secretary or person with the power to certify social agreements, and the social reason or denomination when they are legal persons.

g) The date of the constitution and the date of registration.

h) The opening and closing of delegations or establishments, with indication of the address.

i) The declaration and revocation of the public utility condition and the date of its publication in the "Official State Gazette".

j) Membership of federations, confederations and associations of associations, as well as international entities.

k) In case of federations, confederations and unions, the entities that integrate it.

l) The transformation and merge agreements.

m) Judicial decisions affecting acts that are subject to registration.

n) The drop and its causes.

n) The suspension or dissolution and its causes, indicating the judicial authority when it has agreed to it, and the appointment of liquidators, if any.

o) The provisional or definitive closure of the sheet, the date and its cause.

Article 20. Section 4 registration

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The registration sheets of Section 4. will contain the following data of the foreign associations validly constituted according to their personal law and the Organic Law 1/2002, of March 22:

a) The denomination and nationality.

b) The Tax Identification Number, if any.

c) Fines and statutory activities in codified form.

d) The head office of the delegation in Spain.

e) Territorial scope of action.

f) The date of the opening agreement of the delegation in Spain and the date of registration in the National Register of Associations.

g) The identity of the representative in Spain, and the social reason or denomination when this is a legal person.

h) The opening and closing of other delegations or establishments, with indication of the address.

(i) Judicial decisions affecting acts that are susceptible to registration.

j) The cessation of the activities of the association in Spain.

k) The suspension or dissolution of the foreign association.

l) The provisional or definitive closure of the sheet, the date and its cause.

Article 21. Documentation file.

1. The Register shall carry a file for each of the associative entities of Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4. The documentation referred to in Article 12 shall be deposited.

2. The Registry, regardless of the format of the documentation submitted by the data subjects, shall keep an electronic copy of it under the conditions of safety and interoperability laid down in the rules in force.

Section 2. Denominations

Article 22. Requirements for designations.

1. Associations may only have one name. The abbreviation or abbreviated names that will be added will be part of the unique denomination.

2. The name may be in Spanish or in one of the official languages of the Autonomous Communities. It may also be in any foreign language.

In any case, the denomination will consist of letters of the Latin alphabet and, if they include figures, they can only be expressed in Arabic or Roman numerals.

The Registry, when deemed necessary, may require the association of a certificate of translation into Spanish of the name.

3. In the event of a merger, the acquiring association or the new association resulting from the merger may take the name of any of the merging companies by virtue of the merger, with the remaining names remaining without effect.

Article 23. Limits of the denominations.

1. The Registry shall not register the name of the associations when:

a) Include expressions that are contrary to the laws or may constitute violation of fundamental rights.

(b) This consists exclusively of the name of Spain, those of its autonomous communities, provinces, municipalities, islands and other local entities, with the name of the organs of public administrations, or with those of the States foreign or international organizations.

c) Incorporate terms with institutional value such as "state", "official", "public", "real" or any other that leads to confusion about the legal and private nature of the entity, unless the entity has the corresponding authorization.

d) Include terms or expressions that mislead or confusion about your own identity, or about the class or nature of the same, in particular, by the adoption of words, concepts or symbols, acronyms and similar of different legal persons, whether or not they are associative in nature.

2. The name shall also not be entered when the name matches or is similar in such a way as to create confusion:

(a) With those of a pre-existing entity, whether or not they are Spanish nationals, unless they are, after authorisation, constituted as subsidiaries or delegations and introduce some patronymic to distinguish them.

b) With that of any other association previously entered in the Register or which is incorporated into the Association Denominations file.

c) With the names or pseudonyms of the natural persons, except express consent of the same or their successors. Consent is presumed when the person whose name or pseudonym is listed in the name is the founding partner of the association.

d) With a noted trademark, unless the registration is requested by the holder of the trademark or the consent is recorded.

3. It is understood that there is an identity not only in the case of a full match in the name, but also when one of the following assumptions is present:

a) Using the same words in different order, gender, or number.

b) The use of the same words with the addition or deletion of terms, articles, prepositions, conjunctions, dashes, punctuation marks, and other expressions or particles of limited significance.

c) The use of different words but with noticeable phonetic resemblance.

4. For the purposes of the above paragraphs, the Registry may require the collaboration of the Central Trade Register and the Trademark Registry.

5. In the case of a different scope and misleading, the Register shall not register any names which include the Internet domains, such as ". is", ". com", ". net" or ". org".

6. The terms "federation", "confederation" and "association of associations" are reserved for the second-degree associative entities defined in Article 2.2.

7. The term "youth association" is reserved for those submitted to Royal Decree 397/1988, of 22 April, for which the registration of youth associations is regulated.

8. Where the name chosen by the promoters or partners does not comply with the requirements and limits laid down, the Register shall open the procedure for the remedy referred to in Article 38.2.

Section 3. Other Operating Provisions

Article 24. Activity codes.

1. For the purposes of recording the purposes and activities of the association in codified form, the data subjects may indicate in the application for registration the code, with a minimum of three digits, corresponding to the most characteristic activity of the association, in accordance with those approved in the Annex to this Regulation. Where no suitable code is identified, the code "103. -Other" may be indicated.

2. The Register will record in the corresponding record sheet the code selected by the association. In the absence of an express indication by the interested parties, the classification shall be carried out by the Registry itself.

3. The provisions of this Article shall apply only to applications for the incorporation, transformation or merger of associations, delegations in Spain of foreign associations and amendment of the statutes, if in the latter case it is produces a substantial alteration of the purposes of the entity.

Article 25. Boards.

Without prejudice to the application for registration of all members of the board of directors or representative body, which shall be submitted after the corresponding election or appointment process, the institution shall communicate to the Registry any incident that alters the composition of that representative body, and will require its registration.

Article 26. Transformation of associations.

1. For the purposes of this Regulation, the operation consisting in the change of the territorial scope of the association or in the modification of its legal system is understood as a transformation. For their proper record, the data subjects shall promote the corresponding procedure for the registration of the transformation of associations regulated in Section 3 of Chapter II of Title II.

2. In the case of associations registered in the National Register of Associations, the processing shall give rise to the practice of a provisional registration seat. At the same time, the Register shall transmit the record sheet and copy the file to the appropriate regional or special register. Where the registration of discharge is recorded in the competent register, the Registry shall register the final withdrawal of the processed association.

3. In the case of associations registered in the autonomous and special registers of associations, the National Register of Associations shall require the competent authority to send the information necessary for the processing of the corresponding high-enrollment procedure.

Article 27. Merging associations.

1. Associations registered in the National Register of Associations may be merged, either by the constitution of a new one by two or more, or by the absorption of one or more existing ones.

2. The merger shall give rise to the practice of a registration seat which shall express:

a) If this is the creation of a new association, the same data as those provided for the association constitution and, in addition, the date of the merger agreement.

(b) If this is an absorption assumption, the date of the merger agreement shall be entered on the register of the acquiring association.

3. In any event, the Register shall cancel the seats and the final closure of the registration sheets corresponding to the associations that are extant.

Article 28. Dissolution of associations.

1. The dissolution of the associations opens the liquidation period, until the end of which the entity retains its legal personality and will remain registered in the Register.

2. The dissolution will result in the practice of a provisional low registration seat.

Upon completion of the operations referred to in Article 18.3 of Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March, the liquidators shall submit a request for the cancellation of all the seats of the association, proceeding with the definitive closure of the registration sheet.

3. If at the time of the dissolution the entity has no patrimony, the Registry shall proceed directly to cancel all the seats of the association and the definitive closure of the registration sheet.

Article 29. Foreign associations.

The Registry will proceed to the definitive closure of the registration sheet of the delegations of the foreign associations when they communicate the cessation of their activities in Spain or when they refer the documentation to which the Article 28.3 of the Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March on the dissolution of the association.

Article 30. Internal order contests.

1. The Registry shall not process those written by which the associates communicate the existence of internal discrepancies, unless they are accompanied by the following documentation:

a) Copy of the complaint filed with the Court or competent court.

b) Testimony of the judicial resolution of the admission of the claim.

2. If the content of the application relates to associative acts already registered, a provisional entry shall be made to reflect the transitional nature of the registration.

If you are referring to non-attached acts, you will take a marginal note of the claim. This same type of seat shall be applied in respect of subsequent applications for registration in connection with such associative acts.

3. In any event, the Registry shall practice the registration or cancellation seats resulting from the corresponding final judicial decision.

Article 31. Decisions on competition.

In accordance with the provisions of Article 2.1, the Registry shall send to the competent body the applications for registration received from the following associations:

a) Those whose main scope of action does not exceed the territory of an autonomous community.

(b) Subject to a specific associative regime, whose registration or deposit of statutes in a special register is mandatory, unless a state rule with a law range establishes its prior registration in the Register National of Associations.

CHAPTER III

Administrative collaboration

Article 32. Collaboration with other association records.

1. The Registry shall communicate to the autonomic registers the opening of delegations or establishments within its territory by associations of State or foreign territory registered therein.

2. The Registry shall provide to the autonomic and special registers the information they request for the exercise of their respective registry functions.

Article 33. Collaboration with other agencies.

1. The Registry shall provide the information requested by other registers or bodies of public administrations, provided that it is necessary for the exercise of its powers and relates to data on the registration of associations concrete. The information will preferably be given by electronic means. The Ministry of the Interior will respond to requests for more frequent information made by the different public bodies and bodies through the Public Administrations Intermediation Platform.

2. In any case, the National Registry of Associations will provide the information required by the Courts and Courts.

TITLE II

Enrollment procedures

CHAPTER I

Rules common to registration procedures initiated at the request of interested parties

Article 34. Types of inscriptions.

1. The Register shall apply the registration at the request of a person concerned or of trade.

2. The entries for entries shall be made at the request of the interested parties:

a) Constitution of associations.

b) Constitution of federations, confederations and associations of associations.

c) Transformation of associations.

d) Modification of statutes.

e) Identity of the directors of the board or representative body.

f) Opening and closing of delegations and establishments.

g) Incorporation and separation of associations to federations, confederations and unions, or from any of these to international entities.

h) Merge associations.

i) Dissolution of associations.

j) Delegations in Spain from foreign associations.

3. The following entries shall be made on their own initiative:

a) The ordered by a firm judicial resolution.

(b) Those relating to the declaration and revocation of the public utility of State-wide associations.

Article 35. Submission of requests.

1. Applications for registration may be submitted in the places provided for by the regulatory legislation of the common administrative procedure of public administrations.

2. The documentation which, if appropriate, must be accompanied by the application may be original or be provided by a certificate issued by the Registrar or person empowered to do so in accordance with the statutes.

Article 36. Requirements for the requests.

1. The content of the application for registration shall be in accordance with the provisions of the legislation governing the common administrative procedure of the general government, and the documents shall be accompanied by the following documents: prescriptive as provided for in Chapter II of this Title.

2. In any case, they shall indicate the following:

a) The exact name of the association and its address.

b) Registration number, in the case of associations already registered.

c) Description of the documentation that is attached to the request.

3. In the terms of Article 24, the parties concerned may indicate in the application the code corresponding to the most characteristic activity of the association.

4. The following rules will be considered in the merge assumptions:

(a) In the case of a merger of two or more associations, the application shall be signed by any of the representatives of the associations concerned, and the name and registration numbers of the associations concerned shall be expressed therein. each, as well as the exact name of the new associative entity.

(b) In the case of merger by absorption, the application shall be signed by the representative of the acquiring association, and the name and registration numbers of the associations concerned shall be expressed therein.

5. With regard to the procedure for the registration of the incorporation and separation of associations to federations, confederations or associations of associations, or of any of them to international entities, the specific requirements of the Section 7. of Chapter II.

Article 37. Deadline for submission.

1. For the associations already registered, the time limit for the submission of applications for the amendment or updating of the registration data shall be one month from the date specified in Chapter II for each procedure.

2. Where applications are submitted outside the time limit, the persons concerned may be required to contribute to a certificate in which the validity of the variation in the data is ratified.

Article 38. Processing of the procedure.

1. The Register shall examine the applications and the accompanying required documentation, and shall verify whether the requirements laid down in Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March and in this Regulation are met.

2. If the applications do not meet the requirements laid down in Article 36, or the name does not comply with Articles 22 and 23, the person concerned shall be required to submit, within a period of 10 days, the absence of, or accompany or rectify, the mandatory documentation, with the express indication that, if it does not do so, it shall be given the withdrawal of its request, after a decision given to the effect.

3. In the procedures for the incorporation of associations, the transformation of associations, the opening of delegations in Spain of foreign associations and the modification of the statutes, the instructor of the case may obtain reports that you deem necessary by reason of the name, social purpose, activities or other statutory contents.

The reporting body must decide whether, from the scope of its powers, there is any reason to prevent access to registration. In particular, on whether the activities of the association collide with the exercise of administrative functions of an administrative nature.

4. The procedure shall be followed by the procedure for hearing, unless otherwise stated in the file, other facts or other allegations or evidence which are adduced or provided by the parties concerned are not taken into account.

Article 39. Resolution of the procedure.

1. The holder of the Technical General Secretariat shall give a reasoned decision by agreeing or refusing registration.

2. The decision that agrees to the registration will be expressive of the act which is capable of accessing the Registry, and will indicate expressly that the same is practiced to the solos effects of publicity and that it does not exonerate the interested ones to comply with the current regulations (a) to regulate the activities necessary for the development of statutory purposes.

3. The requested registration may be refused when any of the following cases are present:

(a) That the association, at state level and common regime, does not meet the general requirements laid down in Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March, and in this regulation.

b) That the entity is not included in the scope of the Organic Law 1/2002 of March 22, or does not have a legal nature of association.

4. The decision to be delivered shall be notified to the persons concerned and shall be accompanied, where appropriate, by the appropriate documentation duly completed by the Registry.

Article 40. Deadline for resolution and effects of silence.

1. The deadline for the termination of registration procedures shall be three months from the date of entry of the application into the Ministry of the Interior.

2. After that period has not been expressed, the person concerned may understand the application.

3. In accordance with Article 30 (2) and (4) of Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March, the time limit shall be suspended:

(a) From the date of the relevant notification, where the person concerned must be required to address the defects referred to in Article 38.2.

(b) From the date of the reasoned decision for referral of the proceedings to the Ministry of the Prosecutor or the competent court, where there are reasonable indications of criminal illitude in the documentation accompanying the proceedings. applications for the incorporation of associations, for the transformation of associations, for delegations in Spain for foreign associations and for the modification of statutes.

Article 41. Resources on administrative path.

The resolutions of the registration procedures do not put an end to the administrative route and against them it will be possible to appeal to the Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

CHAPTER II

Enrollment procedures initiated at the request of stakeholders

Section 1. Enrollment of Association Constitution

Article 42. Enrollment initiative.

The application for registration of the association's constitution must be submitted, at least, by one of its promoters.

Article 43. Documents to be attached to the request.

1. The application shall be accompanied by the founding act, the statutes and the copy of the identity documents of the promoters or their representatives. It shall not be necessary to attach the latter documentation where the Register is authorised in the application itself to verify the identity data of such promoters or representatives.

2. The founding act shall contain:

(a) The identity of the promoters if they are natural persons, and the name or social reason if they are legal persons and, in both cases, nationality and domicile. Likewise, the identity, nationality and domicile of the persons acting on behalf of the promoters.

b) The will of the promoters to constitute an association, the covenants which, if any, would have established, and the exact denomination of that.

(c) The approved statutes governing the organization and operation of the association.

d) The designation of the members of the representation bodies.

e) The place and date of granting of the minutes, signed by the promoters.

The minutes shall be accompanied, in the case of legal persons, by a certificate of the agreement adopted by the competent body, stating the intention to constitute the association or to be a part of it, and the designation of the the physical person representing her, who must credit her identity.

3. The statutes must contain all the extremes laid down in Article 7.1 of the Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March, without prejudice to the fact that they may also include any other content which the promoters consider appropriate, provided that do not object to the laws or contradict the principles of association of the right of association. The statutes must be signed by all promoters.

Section 2. Enrollment of the constitution of federations, confederations and associations of associations

Article 44. Enrollment initiative.

The application for registration of the constitution of federations, confederations and associations of associations shall be submitted, at least, by one of the sponsoring entities.

Article 45. Documents to be attached to the request.

The documentation to accompany the application will be subject to the requirements of section 1 of this chapter, with the following particularities:

(a) The founding act shall include the name, registration number and address of each of the sponsoring associations, as well as the identity data of the representatives of the associations.

(b) For each of the entities forming the federation, confederation or union shall be provided the agreement adopted for its integration, and the designation of the person representing them in the constituent act.

(c) The statutes must be signed by the representatives of all the sponsoring entities.

Section 3. Association Transformation Enrollment

Article 46. Entities registered in the National Register of Associations.

1. Institutions registered in the National Register of Associations shall apply for a reduction in the territorial scope of action or for a change of legal regime within the period laid down in Article 37.1, after the adoption of the respective statutes modification agreement.

2. The application must be accompanied by:

(a) Act of the general assembly stating that the association reduces its territorial scope of action to that of a single autonomous community or that it ceases to be governed by the general and common regime of the Organic Law 1/2002, of 22 of March, in order to benefit from a special legal regime, and the date of its approval. It shall also state that the conversion has been approved in accordance with the requirements for the adoption of agreements laying down the statutes.

(b) Full text of the new statutes, containing the amended articles, signed by the president and secretary of the association, and stating, by means of diligence extended at the end of the document, that they have the amendments agreed at the general meeting are included and indicate the date on which the amendment was adopted.

Article 47. Regional associations.

1. The entities registered in the corresponding regional registers of associations may request their registration in the National Register of Associations prior agreement of amendment of statutes to extend their territorial scope of action and This exceeds that of a single stand-alone community.

2. The application shall be submitted within the time limit laid down in Article 37.1, after the adoption of the respective amendment of the statutes.

3. The application must be accompanied by:

(a) Act of the General Assembly, which consists of the agreement to amend the statutes, which is an expression of the scope of action, which must exceed the territory of an autonomous community. It shall also indicate the relationship of modified articles and the date of their approval, and that the amendment has been approved in accordance with the requirements for the adoption of agreements establishing the statutes.

(b) Full text of the new statutes, containing the amended articles, signed by the president and secretary of the association, and stating, by means of diligence extended at the end of the document, that they have the amendments agreed at the general meeting are included and indicate the date on which the amendment was adopted.

(c) Certificate in which the updated relationship of the composition of the board or body of representation is recorded, indicating the identity of the members of the board of directors if they are natural persons and the name or social reason in question the case of legal persons, the charges they hold and the date of their choice or appointment, the nationality and domicile of each of them.

Article 48. Special associations.

1. The entities registered in the corresponding special registers of associations may request their registration in the National Register of Associations prior agreement of amendment of statutes to change their legal regime and to use exclusively to the general and common regime of Organic Law 1/2002, of March 22.

2. The application shall be submitted within the time limit laid down in Article 37.1, after the adoption of the respective amendment of the statutes.

3. The application must be accompanied by:

(a) Act of the General Assembly, in which the agreement to modify the statutes, which is expressive of the legal system, is included, which must refer to the submission of the entity to the Organic Law 1/2002, of March 22. It shall also indicate the relationship of modified articles and the date of their approval, and that the amendment has been approved in accordance with the requirements for the adoption of agreements establishing the statutes.

(b) Full text of the new statutes, containing the amended articles, signed by the president and secretary of the association, and stating, by means of diligence extended at the end of the document, that they have the amendments agreed at the general meeting are included and indicate the date on which the amendment was adopted.

(c) Certificate in which the updated relationship of the composition of the board or body of representation is recorded, indicating the identity of the members of the board of directors if they are natural persons and the name or social reason in question the case of legal persons, the charges they hold and the date of their choice or appointment, the nationality and domicile of each of them.

Section 4. Statutes Modification Enrollment

Article 49. Deadline for submitting the application.

The application must be submitted within the time limit provided for in Article 37.1, since the adoption of the respective statutes amendment agreement.

Article 50. Documents to be attached to the request.

The application for an amendment to the statutes must be accompanied by the following documents:

(a) Act of the General Assembly, which includes the agreement to amend the statutes, the relationship of modified articles and the date of their approval. It shall also state that the amendment has been approved in accordance with the requirements for the adoption of agreements laying down the statutes.

(b) Full text of the new statutes, containing the amended articles, signed by the president and secretary of the association, and stating, by means of diligence extended at the end of the document, that they have the amendments agreed at the general meeting are included and indicate the date on which the amendment was adopted.

Section 5. Enrollment of the identity of the board members or representative body

Article 51. Deadline for submitting the application.

The application for the registration of the identity of the members of the board of directors or the representative body must be submitted within the time limit provided for in Article 37.1, since the adoption of the respective agreement of choice or appointment, or the variation in the composition of the representative body.

Article 52. Documents to be attached to the request.

1. The application shall be accompanied by the minutes of the general assembly or of the agreement adopted, as determined in the statutes, in which the names of the members of the board of directors or the body of representation and their date are to be appointed, and expressly:

a) The identity and address data, if they are natural persons.

b) The social reason or denomination if they are legal persons, with the identity data of the natural persons who will act on their behalf.

c) Charges that are held within the representation organ.

d) The date of the choice or appointment of the incoming holders.

e) The date of revocation and termination, if any, of the outgoing holders

f) The signature of the incoming and, if applicable, the outgoing holders. In the event of failure to provide the signature of the outgoing holders, sufficient justification shall be provided for such a circumstance.

2. Where the incidental situations referred to in Article 25 are met, the application shall be accompanied by an express certificate of such circumstances.

3. The Register may require the provision of a certificate in which, by means of a single and consolidated document, the updated list of all the members and positions of the representative body shall be recorded, where necessary to ensure the consistency of the register advertising.

Section 6. Enrollment opening and closing of delegations and establishments

Article 53. Deadline for submitting the application.

The application for registration of the opening and closing of delegations and establishments shall be submitted within the time limit provided for in Article 37.1, since the adoption of the respective associative agreement.

Article 54. Documents to be attached to the request.

1. The application shall be accompanied by the minutes of the general assembly or the agreement adopted, as determined in the statutes, in which the opening or closing of the delegations or establishments of the association and its date is recorded, and the address of the the social security of the delegation or establishment referred to in the application.

2. Where the opening and closing of one or more delegations or establishments is carried out at the same time, the data referred to in the previous paragraph shall be entered in respect of each of them.

3. The Register may require the provision of a certificate in which, by means of a single consolidated document, the updated list of all delegations and establishments is recorded, where this is necessary to ensure that the consistency of the register advertising.

Section 7. Enrollment of incorporation and separation of associations to federations, confederations and unions, or of any of these to international entities

Article 55. Enrollment initiative.

1. The application for enrollment enrollment and separation of associations must be done by federation, confederation, or association of membership associations.

2. In the case of international entities, the application shall be made by the association, federation, confederation or association of associations that is incorporated or separated from them.

Article 56. Deadline for submitting the application.

The application must be submitted within the time limit provided for in Article 37.1, since the adoption of the respective associative agreement.

Article 57. Requirements for the request.

1. The application for incorporation or separation to federations, confederations or associations of associations must contain the following specific data:

a) The exact name of the federative entity and its address.

b) The registration number of the federal entity in the National Register of Associations.

c) Denomination, address, and enrollment number of the association that is incorporated or separated, assigned by the corresponding association record.

d) Description of the documentation that is attached to the request.

2. The application for incorporation or separation to international entities should contain the following specific data:

a) Exact name of the associative entity and domicile.

b) Registration number in the National Register of Associations.

c) Exact identification of the international membership entity.

d) Description of the documentation that is attached to the request.

Article 58. Documents to be attached to the request.

1. The application shall be accompanied by the agreement adopted by the federation, confederation or union of associations of membership, which shall include acceptance of the incorporation or the separation of the association.

In the case of incorporation, an agreement adopted by the association will be provided, which is incorporated into the agreement that will be integrated into the federation, confederation or association of associations.

2. The Register may require the provision of a certificate in which, by means of a single consolidated document, the updated list of all the entities that make up the federation, confederation or union shall be recorded, where this is the case necessary to ensure the consistency of the register advertising.

3. In the case of registration of membership of international entities, the application shall be accompanied by:

(a) Agreement adopted by the associative entity in which the intention to integrate into an international entity is established.

(b) Agreement of the governing body of the international entity or body, including acceptance of incorporation.

4. In the case of registration of the separation to international entities, the application shall be accompanied by the agreement of the governing body of the international body or body, stating that the separation has been accepted or decided.

Section 8. Association Merge Enrollment

Article 59. Deadline for submitting the application.

The associations that decide to merge shall submit the application for registration within the time limit provided for in Article 37.1, counted from the date of the last agreed agreement.

Article 60. Documents to be attached to the request.

The request will be accompanied by:

(a) Acts of the general assemblies of the associations concerned in which the respective merger agreements and their dates of approval are established. They shall also state that the merger has been approved in accordance with the requirements for the adoption of agreements establishing the statutes.

b) If this is the formation of a new association, the agreement of the constituent general assembly, in addition to all the documents required in this regulation for the registration of the constitution of associations.

Section 9. Enrollment of Dissolution of Associations

Article 61. Deadline for submitting the application.

The period provided for in Article 37.1 shall be counted from the date of concurrence of the causes provided for in the statutes, the causes established in Article 39 of the Civil Code or the date of the agreement adopted by the partners in general assembly convened for this purpose.

Article 62. Documents to be attached to the request.

1. The application must be accompanied by:

(a) The documentation of the cessation of the members of the board of directors or the representative body.

b) In case of dissolution by the causes provided for in the statutes, an expressive certificate of the articles governing such causes and the date on which they have been produced.

(c) In case of dissolution by virtue of the provisions of Article 39 of the Civil Code, an expressive certificate of the determining causes of the Civil Code and the date on which they were produced.

d) In case of dissolution by the will of the associates expressed in general assembly called to the effect, minutes of the assembly in which the date of its approval is recorded. It shall also state that the dissolution has been approved in accordance with the requirements for the adoption of agreements establishing the statutes.

2. If at the time of the dissolution the entity has assets, the application must also be attached to the supporting documentation:

(a) The acceptance and identity of persons in charge of settlement.

(b) The property situation of the association and the indication, where appropriate, of the existence of creditors.

c) The destination to be given to the estate in accordance with the statutes.

3. Once the operations provided for in Article 18.3 of the Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March have been completed, the liquidators will request the cancellation of the registered seats, accompanying documents supporting the application of the patrimony remaining, if any.

4. If at the time of the dissolution the entity is not a property, this circumstance shall be expressly indicated in the application and the documentation provided for in paragraph 2 shall not be required.

Section 10. Enrollment of delegations in Spain of foreign associations

Article 63. Request.

Foreign associations operating in Spain in a stable or lasting manner shall communicate to the Registry the opening, transfer or closing of delegations in Spanish territory.

Article 64. Documents to be attached to the request.

1. In the case of opening of delegations, the application shall be accompanied by the following documentation:

(a) The justification that the association is validly constituted according to its personal law, through the contribution of the document that establishes the validity of the registration, approval, legalization or recognition, issued by the competent authority of the country of origin.

(b) The statutes or similar document governing the organisation and operation of the association.

(c) Agreement of the competent body of the association approving the opening of a delegation of Spain and its date of adoption.

d) The accrediting of the identity of the representatives in Spain and the justification of their powers of representation.

e) The address of the delegation in Spain.

The documentation referred to in points (a) and (b) shall be duly legalized in accordance with the rules on the legalization of foreign public documents.

2. In the case of the transfer of delegations within Spain, the request shall be accompanied by the agreement of the competent body of the association to decide to move the delegation and to indicate the new address.

3. In the case of the closure of delegations, the request shall be accompanied by the agreement of the competent body of the association which decides to close the delegation in Spain, with an indication of the date of effect of the closure.

Article 65. Obligations of the foreign association.

Foreign associations acting in Spain through delegations are obliged to request the updating of their data in accordance with the provisions of Article 28.4 of the Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March.

Article 66. Language of the procedure.

Both applications and documents that are attached to them will be submitted by those interested in the Spanish language.

CHAPTER III

Craft Registrations

Article 67. Court decisions.

1. Pursuant to Article 41 of Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March, the Courts and Tribunals shall communicate to the National Registry of Associations resolutions affecting acts which are susceptible to registration and, in particular, those which determine:

a) The enrollment of the associations.

b) The modification of any of the contents of the statutes of the registered associations.

c) The closure of any of its establishments.

d) The suspension of activities and their revocation, and the dissolution of the registered associations.

2. Without prejudice to the registration ordered by the court, the Registry shall record the type of judgment, the date, the authority which has issued it and the content of the judgment or the operative part.

3. The registration of the suspension of activities agreed upon by a firm judicial decision shall entail the provisional closure of the registration sheet.

4. The registration of the dissolution agreed upon by a firm judicial decision will entail the cancellation of all the seats of the association and the definitive closure of its registration sheet.

Article 68. Public utility of the associations.

The Registry shall register the declaration and revocation of the status of public utility of the State-wide associations from the publication of the corresponding resolutions in the "Official State Gazette".

Additional disposition first. Extra application.

As expressly provided for in this regulation, the registration procedures will be governed by the regulatory legislation of the common administrative procedure of the Public Administrations.

Additional provision second. Request and document models.

1. The Technical General Secretariat, through the website of the Ministry of the Interior, will make available to the citizens an application model for each registration procedure.

2. It shall publish models of the founding act, statutes and certificates, with a purely indicative nature.

3. The models covered by the above two paragraphs should be available in an accessible electronic format for persons with disabilities.

Additional provision third. Fees.

1. Registration and registration shall be subject to the prior payment of the fees laid down in Article 35 of Law 13/1996 of 30 December 1996 on Tax, Administrative and Social Order Measures.

2. The credit document for the fee shall be adjusted to the corresponding model of self-clearance approved by the Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations.

Additional provision fourth. Denominations.

Associations registered in the National Register of Associations that agree to modify their name must comply with the provisions of Articles 22 and 23 of this Regulation.

Additional provision fifth. Transformation of autonomous and special associations.

The associations registered in the autonomous and special registers of associations which, by virtue of a process of transformation, request their registration in the National Register of Associations will be subject and will be applicable all the provisions of this regulation.

Additional provision sixth. Adaptation of statutes and declaration of activity and operation.

1. The associations registered in the National Register of Associations prior to the validity of the Organic Law 1/2002, of March 22, who request to register the adaptation of statutes to the provisions of the said organic law must follow the the procedure for amending the statutes set out in this Regulation.

2. With regard to the associations referred to in the previous paragraph, they would not have submitted the declaration of activity and operation provided for in paragraph 2 of the first transitional provision of the Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March, nor any another application or communication to the Register prior to the entry into force of this Regulation, a marginal express note of such a circumstance shall be made.

The marginal note will be cancelled in the respective registration sheet when the associations present the activity and operating declaration.

Additional provision seventh. Consumer and user associations.

1. The files of the associations of consumers and users registered in the National Register of Associations, which are also registered in the State Registry of Associations of Consumers and Users, will be transferred by the Ministry of Interior to the Spanish Agency for Consumption, Food Security and Nutrition of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality. At the same time, the name of such associations of the Name File will be deleted.

2. As from the entry into force of this Regulation, the State Registry of Associations of Consumers and Users shall have the power to agree to the registration of the acts of amendment of the registration ends which consist of such files, as well as, where appropriate, the dissolution of the respective entities.

First transient disposition. Associations in the process of registration and pending registration of associations already registered.

Applications for registration of associations and registration of associations already registered in the National Register of Associations, submitted prior to the entry into force of this regulation, will be shall process and resolve in accordance with the rules in force at the time of their submission.

Second transient disposition. Classification of activities.

Within three months of the entry into force of this Regulation and in accordance with the codes of activities approved as an Annex thereto, the classification of the entities already registered in the Register shall be made of its own motion. National of Associations.

ANNEX

Activity Codes

1. IDEOLOGICAL, CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNICATION.

11. IDEOLOGICAL.

111. HUMAN RIGHTS, PUBLIC FREEDOMS.

112. PROMOTION OF DEMOCRATIC QUALITY.

113. PROMOTION OF COEXISTENCE AND TOLERANCE.

114. CIVIC-policies.

115. PACIFISTS.

116. RELIGIOUS BASE.

117. PHILOSOPHICAL BASE.

118. REFERRING TO MILITARY ISSUES.

119. OTHER.

12. CULTURAL.

121. ARTES.

122. HUMANS.

123. CIENIAS.

124. HERITAGE DEFENSE.

125. MUSICALS.

126. THEATER, SHOWS.

127. HISTORIC.

128. POPULAR CULTURE, GASTRONOMY.

129. OTHER.

13. EDUCATIONAL.

131. MOTHERS AND PARENTS OF PUPILS.

132. STUDENTS.

133. PROMOTION OF TEACHING.

134. SOCIOEDUCATIVE.

135. OTHER.

14. OF COMMUNICATION.

141. AUDIOVISUAL, RADIO, TV.

142. INTERNET.

143. SOCIAL MEDIA.

144. OTHER.

2. WOMEN, EQUAL TREATMENT AND NON-DISCRIMINATION.

21. WOMEN.

211. EQUAL TREATMENT AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN AND MEN, GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE.

212. OTHER.

22. EQUAL TREATMENT AND NON-DISCRIMINATION ON OTHER GROUNDS.

221. XENOPHOBIA, RACIAL OR ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION.

222. SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY.

223. IDEOLOGY, RELIGION OR BELIEFS.

224. OTHER.

3. CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE, OLDER PEOPLE, FAMILY AND WELL-BEING.

31. INFANCE.

311. INFANCE.

32. YOUNG.

321. YOUNG.

33. OLDER PEOPLE.

331. OLDER PEOPLE.

34. FAMILY.

341. FAMILY.

35. WELFARE.

351. PERSONAL WELFARE.

352. SOCIAL WELFARE, IMPROVEMENT OF LIVING CONDITIONS.

353. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

354. URBANISM, HOUSING.

355. OTHER.

4. ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH.

41. ENVIRONMENT.

411. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, ECOLOGISTS, CONSERVATIONISTS.

412. PROTECTION OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS.

413. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

414. OTHER.

42. HEALTH.

421. RESEARCH.

422. HEALTH SERVICES.

423. PREVENTION AND ACTION AGAINST DISEASE.

424. PREVENTION AND ACTION AGAINST DEPENDENCIES.

425. NATURISM, ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES.

426. HEALTH PROMOTION.

427. OTHER.

5. DISABILITY AND DEPENDENCY.

51. RIGHT.

511. RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND/OR IN A SITUATION OF DEPENDENCY.

52. ASSISTANCE.

521. CARE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND/OR IN A SITUATION OF DEPENDENCY.

53. OTHER.

531. OTHERS REFERRED TO DISABILITY AND/OR DEPENDENCY.

6. VICTIMS, AFFECTED AND HARMED.

61. VICTIMS.

611. VICTIMS OF CRIME.

612. VICTIMS OF TERRORISM.

613. ACCIDENT VICTIMS.

614. OTHER.

62. AFFECTED, HARMED.

621. AFFECTED, HARMED.

7. SOLIDARITY.

71. SOCIAL ACTION, VOLUNTEERING.

711. SOCIAL ACTION, VOLUNTEERING.

72. SOCIAL INTEGRATION

721. SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF IMMIGRANTS, MINORITIES

722. SOCIAL REINSERTION OF PENALTIES

723. SOCIAL Inclusion

73. DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION.

731. DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION, CODEVELOPMENT.

732. HUMANITARIAN AID.

74. CIVIL PROTECTION.

741. CIVIL PROTECTION.

75. EMIGRATION.

751. EMIGRATION.

76. JOB INSERTION.

761. JOB INSERTION.

77. OTHER.

771. OTHERS OF SOLIDARITY.

8. ECONOMIC, TECHNOLOGICAL, PROFESSIONAL AND INTEREST.

81. ECONOMIC.

811. AGRICULTURE, LIVESTOCK, FORESTRY, HUNTING, FISHING.

812. INDUSTRY, ENERGY, TRANSPORT.

813. TRADE.

814. SERVICES.

815. TOURISM.

816. SOCIAL ECONOMY, CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.

817. EMPLOYMENT.

818. ENTREPRENEURSHIP.

819. OTHER.

82. TECHNOLOGY.

821. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ICT.

822. RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, INNOVATION.

823. TELECOMMUNICATIONS.

824. OTHER.

83. OF PROFESSIONALS.

831. JURISTS.

832. PHYSICIANS, PHARMACISTS, OTHER HEALTHCARE.

833. ENGINEERS.

834. ARCHITECTS.

835. TEACHING.

836. OTHER.

84. DEFENSE OF INTERESTS.

841. IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICES.

842. PRIVATE SERVICE USERS, CONSUMPTION.

843. MUNICIPALITIES AND PROVINCES.

844. OWNERS, NEIGHBORS.

845. CLAIMS.

846. OTHER.

9. SPORTS AND RECREATIONAL.

91. SPORTS.

911. PROMOTION OF SPORT, SPORTS DEVELOPMENT.

912. SPORTSMEN, SPORTSPERSONS.

913. PARTNERS, FOLLOWERS.

914. OTHER.

92. RECREATIONAL.

921. PENALTIES, CLUBS, REGIONAL HOUSES.

922. CELEBRATIONS, LEISURE, FREE TIME.

923. TAURINES.

924. GENERAL ADDRESSES.

925. OTHER.

10. VARIAS.

101. SUBSIDIARIES OF FOREIGN ASSOCIATIONS.

102. PARTNERSHIPS LINKED TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS.

103. OTHER.