Audiencia Nacional of Spain

Audiencia Nacional
Audiencia Nacional building in Madrid
Established	4 January 1977
Jurisdiction	Spain
Location	Madrid
Coordinates	45°00′N 122°00′W / 45°N 122°W / 45; -122Coordinates: 45°00′N 122°00′W / 45°N 122°W / 45; -122
President
Currently	Ángel Juanes Peces
Since	2009

Spain

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The Audiencia Nacional (English: National Court) is a special and exceptional high court in Spain. It has jurisdiction over all of the Spanish territory, as well as over international crimes which come under the competence of Spanish courts. In 1977 the Audiencia Nacional replaced the Public Order Tribunal (Tribunal de Orden Público), a Francoist institution.^[1] Its seat is in Madrid.

In most cases the rulings and decisions of these different divisions of the Audiencia Nacional can be appealed before the Supreme Court of Spain.

Structure

The Audiencia is composed of its President, the Presidents of the Chambers, and the magistrates that the law specifies for each one of its courts and divisions.

The Audiencia includes the following chambers:

• Criminal Chamber, which is competent to try certain types of serious crimes such as terrorism, money laundering, genocide, etc., makes decisions about extradition demands by foreign countries and the execution of European arrest warrants, and hears appeals against rulings of the Central Criminal Courts (Juzgados Centrales de lo Penal).
• Appeals Chamber, which hears appeals against rulings of the Criminal Chamber.
• Administrative Chamber, which exercises judicial review of administrative decisions by senior officers (ministers of the Spanish government, secretaries of state) and certain specialised agencies (Spanish Data Protection Agency, Concurrence Protection Commission, etc.)
• Social Chamber, hears appeals against resolutions of the Central Social Courts (Juzgados Centrales de lo Social) regarding industrial disputes of nation-wide scope.

See also

• Constitutional Court of Spain

References