Glossary of Legal and Administrative Terms
Act Ex Officio
The person who initiates the process does so at their own request without waiting for any of the interested parties to indicate it.
Administrative Act
It is a declaration of will, judgment, knowledge or desire made by the administration in the exercise of an administrative power other than the regulatory one.
AEPD (Spanish Data Protection Agency)
Is the independent control authority that ensures compliance with data protection regulations and guarantees and protects the fundamental right to the protection of personal data.
Allegations
Argumentation
Appellant
He has initiated an appeal, plaintiff.
Bidding
Auction in which a price is offered for something
BOE (Official State Gazette)
The official bulletin of the state is the official newspaper of the Spanish State in which the approved or amended legal rules are published; it also includes acts and official announcements that must be communicated.
Boost
Induce the performance of the administrative action
Capacidad Jurídica
Attribution given by the legal system to natural or legal persons to be holders of rights and obligations.
Capacidad Para Obrar
Supposes the attribution by the legal system of the capacity to act and exercise the rights and duties that the law grants.
Certificado Electrónico
It’s a document signed electronically by a certification authority, which allows legal and technical guarantee of the identity of each Internet user.
Comarca
It’s an entity that brings together several municipalities with common interests in terms of service provision and management.
However, in no case can they imply the loss of unavoidable powers by the municipalities.
Its creation and regulation corresponds to the Autonomous Communities.
Comisión Europea
The European Commission or College of Commissioners is the main body
executive of the EU and represents the common interest of all member countries.
Comisión Parlamentaria
It’s in charge of drawing up the proposals that will later be submitted for debate in Parliament.
There are twenty permanent committees specializing in different fields and two subcommittees.
Commonwealth
It is an associative entity integrated by several municipalities whose purpose is the execution of works or provision of common services within their competences
Competencia Impropia
Are those powers exercised by municipalities being the responsibility of another Administration.
Comunidad Autónoma
It is a political and administrative territorial entity, which the Constitution recognizes
and which it endows with legislative and executive initiative.
Concesionario
Person or entity to whom a concession is made.
Confirming
It is an administrative-financial service, by which a financial entity manages the payments that a company has with its suppliers,
giving the latter the option of advancing the collections
Consejo De La UE O Consejo De Ministros
The council is the main decision-making body of the EU, together with the European Parliament.
It is where most of the European legislation is adopted and where the different policies are coordinated.
The different governments of each of the member states are represented.
Consejo Europeo
It brings together the different national and European leaders, with the aim of establishing the general priorities of the EU.
Contrato De Compraventa
One in which one of the contracting parties undertakes to deliver a certain thing and the other to pay a certain price for it, in money or a sign that represents it.
Contrato De Trabajo
Agreement between employer and worker, whereby the latter undertakes to provide certain services on behalf of the employer and under his direction, in exchange for remuneration
Contrato Público
Those contracts in which at least one of the parties is a Public Administration.
Contratos Menores
They are intended to streamline and simplify award procedures in cases of small amounts and temporary duration.
With amounts less than €40,000 in works contracts and €15,000 in supply or service contracts.
Contratos Privados
Are those that are formalized between contracting parties that are not Public Administration.
Court Of Accounts
The European Court of Auditors (TCE) supervises and controls the proper functioning and proper administration of finances and community funds.
Court Of Justice
Is the institution in charge of interpreting EU law, ensuring that it is applied in the same way in all member countries. It is made up of three courts: the Court of Justice (resolves preliminary questions raised by national courts), the General Court (focuses on matters relating to competition, aid, trade, agriculture and trademark law) and the Court of Public Service (resolves disputes between the EU and its staff).
Criptografía
Set of techniques that guarantee that a message is only understandable by the person to whom it is addressed,
also ensuring that the message has not been modified.
De Oficio
Without a denouncement.
Derecho
Set of rules and principles, inspired by the ideas of justice and order, which regulate the coexistence of a society.
If they are not complied with voluntarily, the State is entitled to impose said norms and principles, and sanction non-compliance.
Desierto
Procedure for which there are no candidates
Documento Público
Those documents authorized by a notary or competent public employee.
They have powerful effects, specifically regulated by law, which far exceed those of a private document, since they do not require any verification or contrast.
(DOUE) Diario Oficial De La Unión Europea
The Official Journal of the European Union is the official bulletin in which the legal provisions of the EU and other official documents of the European institutions and organizations are published.
Elemento De Juicio
Assessment criteria
Elevar A Público
It refers to the private contract having to be a public document, as happens when we go to the notary to sign a contract of sale of a property.
Empresa
An organisational unit engaged in industrial, commercial or service-providing activities for profit. It is an entity characterised by its duality as a legal and economic entity.
Enmienda
Elemento de juicio
Entidad Asociativa
Its purpose is to promote and defend the interests of the local entities that form it and to represent them before the State and regional administrations. At the national level, there is the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), although there are also federations of their own in some Autonomous Communities.
Entidad Inframunicipal
These are population centres that are territorially separate from the main urban area to which they belong. Their creation and regulation is the responsibility of the Autonomous Regions.
European Central Bank
The European Central Bank and the national central banks of the countries belonging to the euro zone form the Eurosystem, whose main objective is to maintain price stability, that is, to safeguard the value of the euro. The ECB directs and applies the single monetary policy in these countries.
Evicción
Deprivation of the purchaser of the purchased goods, by final judgment and by virtue of a right prior to purchase
Expendable Good
Movable property that cannot be used in accordance with its nature without being consumed.
File
Ordered set of documents that a person, company, institute or any type of organization that produces the exercise of its functions or activity. The term can also refer to the physical space where the documents are located
Firma Digital
It is the set of data relating to a person consigned electronically, they must be used by means of identification of the signed with the same value as the handwritten signature
Foreign Action Of The State
Capacity of the subjects of international law to enter into relations with the other subjects of international law. The foreign action of the state is carried out by those bodies that carry out activities with an international scope.
Forgeign Action Of The State
Ordered set of actions that public bodies and administrations carry out abroad in the exercise of their powers
Good Body Furniture
They are tangible and inanimate goods, which can be moved from one place to another.
Holder Of A Right
Owner of a right.
Immovable Property
Listed in article 34 of the CC. Among others, the land, buildings and constructions attached to the ground, everything that is attached to the property in a fixed way, paintings and ornamentation objects, machines, administrative concessions, etc.
Incoar
Initiate a process, lawsuit, file or other similar action
Instruido
Processed, made known
Interesado
Involved, affected, having an interest in something
Interponer
Formalize the appropriate appeal
Jurisprudencia
It is the set of sentences and interpretations of the laws that link to subsequent processes that deal with similar cases.
Landlord Of Things
One of the parties undertakes to register the enjoyment or use of a thing for a certain time and a certain price
Lessor
Person who undertakes to cede the use of the thing, execute the work or provide the service
Licit
Fair, permitted, which is law
Mediador De Seguros
Professional who performs the activity of mediation between policyholders and insured, on the one hand, and insurance or reinsurance companies, on the other.
Metropolitan Area
Local entity formed by bordering municipalities, of large urban agglomerations and with exonomic and social links. That requires the management of certain services jointly. Its creation and regulation corresponds to the autonomous communities
Municipio
The municipality is the basic territorial entity, with legal personality and capacity for the fulfillment of its purposes. As such, it has the organization and powers to achieve its objectives.
Nota Simple
Informative document issued by the Property Registry, and that allows knowing who is the owner of a property and what charges they have at the time of the request. In this way, the tenant ensures that the property or premises that he is going to occupy is free of charges and is legalized.
Notificación
Document containing the communicated resolution.
Recurrente
He has initiated an appeal, plaintiff.
Recurso Administrativo
This is the way in which interested parties request the administration to modify or annul administrative acts that they consider to be contrary to the legal system.
Reglamento
These are written rules of a lower rank than laws and are issued by a public administration.
Renting
Is the contract for the lease of non-expendable movable property, both productive and consumer, whereby the lessor, apart from ceding the use of the property to the lessee, offers him the option of replacing and extending it
Repudiar
Reject, not accept
Resilencia
Ability to overcome diverse circumstances with positive results
Revocar
To annul a concession, mandate or decision.
Signatura Digital
It is the set of data relating to a person consigned electronically, they must be used by means of identification of the signed with the same value as the handwritten signature
Silencio Administrativo
There is administrative silence when the administration does not resolve an administrative procedure expressly in the term determined to do so. It can be positive (it is granted what is requested) or negative (it does not coincide).
Simple Note
Informative document issued by the Property Registry, and that allows knowing who is the owner of a property and what
charges it has at the time of the request.
In this way, the tenant ensures that the property or premises that he
is going to occupy is free of charges and is legalized, that is, he has all the corresponding permits,
such as the habitability cell.
Single European Act
Signed in Luxembourg and The Hague in 1986 Amends the Treaty of Rome and promotes the single European market. Extends community objectives and policies
Spanish Data Protection Agency
It is an independent administrative authority of state spirit with legal personality, it acts with full independence from the public powers in the exercise of its functions.
Subministramientos
Supplies
Subvención
Monetary disposition made by the administration in favor of individuals or private persons.
Sufragio Activo
Ability to vote and elect a representative
Sufragio Pasivo
Ability to vote and to be elected as a representative of society
Tenant
The person who acquires the use of the thing or the right to the work or service that is obliged to pay
Treaty Of Amsterdam
Treaty signed in 1997. Reforms the European institutions and promotes the foreign and security policy of the European Union.
Treaty Of Lisbon
Treaty signed in 2007, changes the functioning of the European Union.
Treaty Of Maastricht
Treaty signed in 1993. Creates the European Union and introduces cooperation between states in foreign policy and internal security, and establishes the basis of the European Monetary Union.
Treaty Of Nice
Treaty signed in 2001. It modifies the institutions again to adapt them to the 25 member countries at that time.
Valor Residual
In a leasing operation, it is the amount of the purchase option of the asset. Normally, its value is fixed in an additional installment plus.
Vicio Oculto
Internal defect of a thing that at the time of its purchase and sale was not known to the buyer, because it could not be distinguished at first sight.
Vinculante
Subject to obligation
Voluntad
Desire to do something. Criteria that the Administration intends to enforce in a given matter.
Votación De Investidura
Voting that takes place in the Congress of Deputies, to which the candidate for President of the Government is submitted in order to be designated as such.
Well Expendable
Movable property that cannot be used appropriately according to its nature without being consumed.
Well Movable
In general, all those that can be transported from one point to another without detriment to the immovable thing to which they were