The normative treatment of official symbols in the European environment: the case of Spain and its nearby countries

Abstract

The article seeks to justify the linkage of the protocol with the legal sciences and how within the official protocol there are different legal regulations that set the guidelines for action in their field. It will be analyzed how the countries closest to Spain, namely Germany, France, Italy and Portugal, legally regulate the official protocol and specifically in relation to the use of official symbols: shield, flag and anthem. In this way we will analyze if it is possible to establish some kind of general guideline on the existence or not of this type of regulations between them and what concrete aspects regarding the use of these symbols are established in each one of the cases. Finally we will show the degree of concreteness that exists in this legislation in Spain in relation to the one we have found in the other countries analyzed.