La State Agency Official State Gazette or as it is commonly called BOE, is an organism where the laws, communications, acts and dispositions of the State are publicly announced. As an official newspaper where the statutes approved by the Cortes Generales are reflected, as well as the provisions that come from the Government of Spain together with various independent administrations.
In addition to this, the BOE announces many more issues, carried out by constitutional bodies of the State, ministries, public administrations. In addition, citations, requisitions and summons that have been legislatively instituted are also published. As well as grants, decrees, appointments, calls for assistance, edicts and others.
It is very important to be aware of how to consult the BOE and obtain the information that is of greater interest to us, since there are reflected many things that concern us and affect us as a citizen.
How to consult the BOE?
The State Agency Official State Gazette publishes normal publications on Monday through Saturday only once a day, these publications take about 4 to 8 days. Although publications are also made on other days of the week and more than once, and if required, with special or ordinary editions. So, in exceptional conditions, urgent publications can take 1 to 3 days, an example of this is the situation of state of alarm due to the coronavirus pandemic, the BOE publishes publications including Sundays.
When making a query, you have different ways of doing it. As a first option, you can visit website www.boe.es and select "Last BOE", after this, you will be able to view the last publication made by the State official newsletter, it will be detailed in the upper part, where the header is, with the bulletin number and the date of issue.
Once here, there are several ways to search: you can consult the index or the summary that appears at the beginning, where a list is displayed that indicates everything that has been published during the day, you can navigate within the website while looking for the specific information you need to consult. Also if you have knowledge about the location or department where the information you are looking for should be displayed, you can go to the relevant option in the drop-down menus that are seen at the beginning.
At the bottom of the title of the different provisions, you will be able to see the links through which you will be able to enter the publication you are looking for, and you will be able to see them in PDF or other formats that are available.
In the portal of the State official newsletter You can go directly to the publication looking for the specific date that concerns it, if you know it or you can also use the search engine for a faster and more direct search.
