The spanish state of autonomies and the European Union: the participation of the autonomous communities in the enactment and implementation of the european law

Abstract

The paper analyzes the spanish constitutional framework, the provisions of the spanish «Estatutos de Autonomía» (legal instruments of each spanish autonomous community’s self government), the conventional activity and the constitutional jurisprudence on the respective position of the spanish State and autonomous communities in the so-called "ascending stage” (or the participation of both national and regional levels of government in the enactment of the European Union’s legislation), as well as in the known as the «descending stage» (or the distribution of powers between the State and the autonomous communities for the national implementation of European Union’s legislations and decisions).