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20-749: From CCN depends: The functions of the CCN are: The director of CCN is the same as the director of the CNI , Félix Sanz Roldán . However, the competency of the center's management relapse in a deputy director supported by an assistant deputy director. The functions of the deputy director of the CCN are: The CCN has signed two important agreements with Microsoft in order to join the Government Security Program (GSP): National Intelligence Centre (Spain) The National Intelligence Centre ( Spanish : Centro Nacional de Inteligencia , CNI)

40-544: A judge of the Spanish Supreme Court , chosen by a qualified majority . In this sense, those actions requiring previous authorization by the court are those regarding communications interdiction, entry and registration at home or enterprise addresses, or any other would-be violations of the fundamental rights granted by the Spanish Constitution of 1978 . The first Spanish intelligence service

60-630: A new statute for the Center's staff. The 1995 regulations were modified in 2004. In 2013, a new regulation for personnel was approved. In 2011, after a ministerial reform undertaken by PM Mariano Rajoy , the CNI became attached to the Ministry of the Presidency but, after the change in government in 2018, PM Pedro Sánchez has once again assigned the CNI to the Ministry of Defence . In 2013, thanks to

80-612: A series of subjects on which the Decree-Law does not have the capacity to legislate. These are: The Decree-Law is temporary and, according to the Constitution : Decree-Laws must be immediately submitted for debate and voting by the entire Congress, which must be summoned for this purpose if not already in session, within thirty days of their promulgation. This means that within 30 days, the Congress must debate whether or not

100-615: Is a moment of urgent and extraordinary need, many times the Decree-Law does not literally respect the initial requirements. According to the Constitution, the Constitutional Court is the only body authorized to rule whether a rule with force of law is legal or not. This means that the Constitutional Court can judge not only the laws , but the rules with force of law as is the case of the Decree-Law. If

120-500: Is approximately € 337.1 million (the CNI can get further resources from the classified funds). The Secretary of State-Director of the CNI is currently Esperanza Casteleiro . The centre's essential goal is to provide the Spanish Government all the necessary information to prevent and avoid any risk or menace that affects the independence or integrity of Spain, its national interests, institutions and rule of law . In

140-705: Is given because it has state rank and it is the King who is responsible for sanctioning and ordering the publication and compliance of the rule. However, when the rule is created by an autonomous government , it receives the name of "Decree-Law" because the King only sanctions the Decrees of the central government (the autonomous community Decree-Law is sanctioned by the President of the Autonomous Community in

160-669: Is the Spanish official intelligence agency , acting as both its foreign and domestic intelligence agency. Its headquarters are located next to the A-6 motorway near Madrid . The CNI is the successor of the Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa , the Higher Centre for Defence Intelligence. Its main target areas are North Africa and South America and it operates in more than 80 countries. CNI's official budget for 2023

180-477: Is very slow), and that the Decree-Law is created because of situation of extraordinary necessity. According to the Spanish Constitution , there are 3 limits to the application of the Decree-Law: The first of the limits lies in the non-compliance with the initial requirements. If the Decree-Law is not created because of an urgent and extraordinary need, it can be eliminated. The Constitution enumerates

200-535: The Global Surveillance Leaks by Edward Snowden , it was learned that the CNI has been collaborating with the NSA in the massive espionage of millions of Spaniards, directly intercepting or helping to intercept millions of metadata of call logs, text messages and emails. In 2022 it was revealed that the CNI had spied on at least 18 phones of Catalan separatist politicians. In May 2022, the head of

220-524: The CNI, Paz Esteban López , was then fired. Esteban later admitted in a committee of the Spanish parliament that her agency, after obtaining court approval, had the devices of Catalan separatists infected with the help of the Israeli spy software Pegasus . Royal Decree-Law (Spain) A Royal Decree-Law is a legal rule having the force of a law in the Spanish legal system . The name of "Royal"

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240-606: The CNI. Later, in March 2004, the Royal Decree that regulates the National Cryptologic Center (CCN), a body attached to the CNI for the security of information technologies. The legal framework of the CNI is completed by the provision relating to the statutory regime of its personnel. The personnel regulations of the previous organization date back to 1995. The Law 11/2002 provides for the development of

260-504: The Constitutional Court considers that the situation is not one of urgent and extraordinary need or that if the subject matter is not within its competence, it may declare it totally or partially unconstitutional and expel it from the legal system . For this reason, it is often considered that the Constitutional Courts are negative legislators, lacking the power to make laws but with the power to repeal all or portions of

280-416: The Decree-Law is valid and has three possibilities: The Royal Decree-Law may occupy the "place" or regulate matters that would be dealt with by ordinary law, but never of those matters reserved for the organic law (fundamental rights, autonomy statutes, electoral regime, etc.). With these limits the Constitution tries to prevent abuse of the Decree-Law, but since it is the government who decides when it

300-714: The Government of the People's Party reached consensus with other political groups represented in the Congress of Deputies, in particular with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party , to draft the laws that were to regulate the Spanish intelligence services. This was intended to reach the greatest possible consensus in the creation of such State Agencies in order to safeguard the democratic State, removing them, as much as possible, from party politics. In 2002,

320-590: The current legal regulation of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) was reached, which was assigned a new name that simplifies and accurately determines its true function. The result of the aforementioned parliamentary agreements was the enactment of two complementary laws, one of which, Law 11/2002 of May 6, regulates the National Intelligence Center, while the other, of an organic nature (Organic Law 2/2002, of May 6), establishes judicial control prior to that certain actions must be submitted to

340-731: The end of the civil war. Student revolts by the end of the 1960s motivated the creation of a National Countersubversive Organization, which was the seed for the Servicio Central de Documentación (SECED), founded in 1972. The Centro Superior de Información de la Defensa (CESID) was formed between 1976 and 1977, from the fusion of the SECED and the High Staff of the Army Information Service (Spanish: Servicio de Información del Alto Estado Mayor (SIAEM)). In 2001,

360-497: The name of the King ). The Constitution says literally: In case of extraordinary and urgent need, the Government may issue temporary legislative provisions which shall take the form of decree-laws ... This means that there are two fundamental conditions to use the form of the Royal Decree-Law: that the measures must be implemented urgently (and cannot be carried out by the normal parliamentary process because it

380-609: The same way, the law states that the specific goals of the CNI will be determined and approved yearly by the Council of Ministers . These goals will be included in a secret document, the Intelligence Guidelines. Besides this organic control of the centre by the Ministers Council, there is also a judiciary control, given the fact certain activities require such intervention. This control is carried out by

400-699: Was created in 1935, in a short-lived experience with an almost null activity, due to the Spanish Civil War paralysing its development. During the civil war, the Servicio de Información Militar (SIM) provided intelligence service to the Republicans while the Servicio de Información y Policía Militar (SIPM) provided intelligence service to the Nationalists. Both organizations were dissolved at

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