Resolution of February 10, 2023, of the General Directorate of




The Legal Consultant

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Law 20/2011, of July 21, on the Civil Registry has provided for a new Civil Registry model that is mainly characterized by being public, free, unique for all of Spain and that it is configured as electronic and interoperable.

The successful implementation of this Law implies the coordinated execution of numerous actions in the regulatory, organizational and technological fields, such as collaboration with multiple agencies, local administrations and autonomous administrations, preserving efficiency in action through a progressive implementation that makes it viable.

The reform operated by Law 6/2021, of April 28, by which Law 20/2011, of July 21, has its main purpose this objective of progressive implementation through a possible strategy, in such a way that the game of the fourth, eighth and tenth transitory provisions, plus the second additional one, allow the aforementioned progressive implementation, against three scenarios:

  • – Fourth transitory provision. The transformation has not started, it follows the same current regime.
  • – Transitional provision of eighth and tenth. The DICIREG computer application was implemented, beginning the Offices to apply Law 20/2011, of July 21.
  • – Second additional provision and fourth, eighth and tenth transitory provisions. The lists of jobs are approved, and the creation of a new Civil Registry Office is completed.

    In this sense, the fourth transitory provision, as it has been drafted, establishes that until the Ministry of Justice approves, through a Resolution of the General Directorate of Legal Security and Public Faith, the entry into effective service of the computer applications that allow the operation of the Civil Registry fully electronically in accordance with the provisions contained in this Law, the Civil Registry service will continue to be provided as it has been done to date. And this condition of replication in the aforementioned transition provisions, to start the measures that put the new model into operation.

    By virtue of this, through resolutions of this General Directorate of Legal Security and Public Faith, the entry into effective service of the DICIREG computer application is agreed at the General Offices of Madrid on September 27, 2021, of Barcelona on November 29, 2021 , the judicial district of Murcia on July 11, 2022, the judicial district of Tarragona on October 3, 2022, the judicial district of Bilbao on November 28, 2022, the judicial district of Cartagena on November 28, 2022, the judicial district of Molina de Segura on December 12, 2022, of the General Office of Ceuta on January 16, 2023, and of the judicial district of Vigo on January 30, 2023, having begun their operation in accordance with the content forecasts in Law 20/2011, of July 21.

    Proceed at this time, in application of the unfold Forecast strategy plan in collaboration with the Generalitat de Catalunya with assumed powers, take the next step in this implementation of the new model and, after carrying out the corresponding preparatory and training tasks in these previous months, agree to the entry into service of DICIREG in the General Office of the Civil Registry of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, in application of the provisions of the fifth additional provision of Law 20/2011, of July 21.

    Therefore, in accordance with the power conferred on the General Directorate of Legal Security and Public Faith through the fourth, eighth and tenth transitory provisions of Law 20/2011, of July 21, which empower it to issue the resolution for the implementation of the computer application that makes possible the beginning of the provisions of said Law, I have:

First.

1. The entry into effective service is approved, in the General Office of the Civil Registry of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, of the computer application called DICIREG, of the Ministry of Justice, which allows the operation of the Civil Registry in accordance with the provisions contained in the Law 20/2011, from July 21 to 00:00 on March 13, 2023.

2. The Ministry of Justice will provide, in terms of the subsequent evolutionary technological development, exploitation and maintenance, of the DICIREG computer application.

3. From the date of entry into service, the Manager and the personnel who provide services in the Office in question, must use said computer application for the management, procedural processing and practice of entries in the Civil Registry.

Second.

1. From said entry into effective service of the DICIREG application, the Civil Registry of Santa Coloma de Gramenet will be renamed the General Office of the Civil Registry of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, as it is created by virtue of the provisions of the eighth transitory provision and in the fifth additional provision, both of Law 20/2011, of July 21, and the other provisions contained in said Law shall apply.

2. Until the new Civil Registry Regulations, developed by Law 20/2011, of July 21, enter into force, the provisions of the Instruction of September 16, 2021, of the General Directorate of Legal Security and Public Faith, by which the guidelines and criteria are agreed to support the entry into effective service of the DICIREG computer application, in accordance with the provisions contained in Law 20/2011, of July 21, modified by the Instruction of June 3 of 2022, of the General Directorate of Legal Security and Public Faith and the other Instructions, Circulars and Resolutions that have been issued so far, in relation to the application of Law 20/2011.

Third. The personnel who, on the indicated date of entry into effective service of DICIREG, are providing services in the Civil Registry of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, continue to carry out their functions in the offices of the Civil Registry, as established in the eighth transitory provision of the Law 20/2011, of July 21 and in this resolution, applying the norms outlined in the second article.

Quarter. The General Directorate of Legal Security and Public Faith regulates, in use of the powers contained in article 26 of Law 20/2011, of July 21, the protocols and instructions that are appropriate for the best performance of the service.

Fifth. This resolution will enter into force the day after its publication in the Official State Gazette.