Legal status of the armed forces

Abstract

The 8th article of the Spanish Constitution lists the missions of the Armed Forces. These Armed Forces are an Administration with special features relative to personnel legal regulations, operative procedures, values, targets and purposes. This article tries to go through the Army legal regulations, underlining the analysis of its nature and missions in order to update the current legal literature. To sum it up, a big addition of missions to the «status quo» of the Armed Forces recently happened, brought as a result of the international integration of Spain; and, secondly, the Armed Forces may be considered as an «institutional Administration».