The Statute of Autonomy

Statute of Autonomy

Nominally, a Statute of Autonomy is a law hierarchically located under the constitution of a country, and over any other form of legislation...

 of Cantabria

Cantabria

Cantabria is a Spanish historical region and autonomous community with Santander as its capital city. It is bordered on the east by the Basque Autonomous Community , on the south by Castile and León , on the west by the Principality of Asturias, and on the north by the Cantabrian Sea.Cantabria...

is the basic institutional norm of the autonomous community of Cantabria in Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

. It determines the fields, bodies and institutions of self government of the Cantabrian community.
Legally it is the Organic Law

Organic Law (Spain)

An Organic Law in Spanish law under the present Spanish Constitution of 1978 must be passed by an absolute majority of the Congress of Deputies...

 8/1981 of December 30, 1981, passed on December 15 the same year in the Congress and published on the BOE

Boletín Oficial del Estado

The Boletín Oficial del Estado , Spanish for Official Bulletin of the State, is the official gazette of the Government of Spain. It publishes the laws of the Cortes Generales and the dispositions of the Autonomous Communities...

on January 11, 1982. Later it has been modified to extend responsibilities and to define provisional articles.

External links

• Statute of Autonomy of Cantabria, the basic institutional instrument regulating Cantabria.