The Council of Ministers has approved this Tuesday the Annual Regulatory Plan 2026, a planning instrument where the Government details, in advance, the laws and regulations it plans to approve during the year.
The Minister of Justice, the Presidency and Relations with the Courts, in charge of managing the coordination of the document, Félix Bolaños, has specified that the legislative calendar for 2026 contemplates 179 proposals: 10 organic law projects, 38 ordinary laws, and 131 royal decrees. Furthermore, he has indicated that 31% of the planned regulations respond to the need to transpose provisions from the European Union into the Spanish legal system.
Almost 27% of the initiatives foreseen in the document, bills, will have to go through Congress to materialize. Demócrata reviews the agenda of each ministry and the proposals that will have to be negotiated with their partners to comply with the PAN:
Treasury
- Law of PGE 2026
- Organic Law of Public Integrity
- Organic Law for the reform of the regional financing system
- Law for the regulation of the financing model for the Autonomous Communities of common regime and cities with autonomous statute
- Public Procurement Law
- Law on VAT in the digital age
Economy
- Consumer Credit Law
- Law on the recovery and resolution of insurance and reinsurance undertakings
- Law reforming the supervision of insurance and reinsurance undertakings
- Law for the digitalization and modernization of the financial system
- Law regulating the reciprocal interest adjustment agreement
- Law on the legal regime of capital movements and economic transactions with the exterior
- Law for the transposition of regulations and directives in the field of capital markets
- Law on the sanctioning regime for pan-European personal pension products
- Law for the reform of the financial system
Justice and Presidency
- Anti-corruption Law
- Law on advertising in the public sector
- Law on free legal assistance
- Law on the protection of the right to honor, personal and family privacy, and one's own image
- Organic law on the protection of the environment through criminal law
- Organic law on complementary measures to strengthen protection against gender-based violence
- Law on protection against strategic lawsuits against public participation
- Law on the regulation of electronic evidence in criminal proceedings
- Law on the statute of the neutral third person in dispute resolution mechanisms
Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge
- Law on the marketing and export of commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation in the Union
Interior
- Organic Law on the rights and freedoms of foreigners in Spain and their social integration
- Law on international protection
- Law on cybersecurity coordination and governance
Equality
- Law of vicarious violence
- Law against trafficking and sexual exploitation
- Law regulating the exercise of the profession of equality agent
Work
- Law of democracy in the company
- Law on the prevention of occupational risks
- Law for the improvement of working conditions on digital platforms
- Law on the protection of whistleblowing workers
- Law on guarantees against dismissal
- Law on business representativeness in SMEs
Consumption, Social Rights and Agenda 2030
- Sustainable Consumption Law
- Law for the protection of the rights of great apes
Digital Transformation
- Artificial intelligence law
Healthcare
- Law of medicines and health products
- Law of the framework statute of the statutory personnel of health services
- Law on smoking and regulating the sale, supply, consumption and advertising of tobacco products
- Law of public management and integrity of the National Health System
- Law of patient organizations
Youth and Childhood
- Foster Families Law
- Organic Law on Youth and the Rights of Future Generations
- Organic Law for the Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents against Violence
- Law to Guarantee the Transversality of Childhood in the Design and Implementation of Public Policies
and then what?
The Government's Annual Regulatory Plan is limited to proposals within the framework of the Council of Ministers, so the million-dollar question is whether any of the initiatives (other than a royal decree) have a chance of succeeding or if, on the contrary, they will get stuck or lapse during the parliamentary processing phase.
A priori, the numbers don't add up because Junts would oppose any initiative coming from the Executive. The sum of PSOE (121), Sumar (26), ERC (7), EH Bildu (6), PNV (5) and those attached to the Mixed group, Águeda Micó (Compromís), BNG, Coalición Canaria and the four from Podemos, amounts to 172.
Even more complicated would be the 10 organic law projects mentioned in the PAN, as in their case, a simple majority (more yeses than noes) is not enough, but an absolute majority is required.