Applicable Legislation

The following laws and legal bodies protect and safeguard our clients:
  • Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007, of November 16, which approves the consolidated text of the General Law for the Defense of Consumers and Users and other complementary laws.
  • Decree 206/1990, of July 30, on the inspection of market and consumer discipline.
  • Law 16/2011, of June 24, on consumer credit agreements.
  • Law 29/2009, of September 30, through which the legal regime of unfair competition and advertising is modified for the improvement of the protection of consumers and users.
  • Law 7/1998, of April 13, on the general conditions of contracting.
  • Law 22/2010, of July 20, of the Consumer Code of Catalonia.
  • Law 2/2009, of March 31, which regulates the contracting with consumers of mortgage loans or credits and intermediation services for the execution of loan or credit contracts.
  • Royal Decree 106/2011, of January 28, which creates and regulates the State Register of Companies provided for in Law 2/2009, of March 31, which regulates the contracting of consumers of mortgage loans or credits and of intermediation services for the execution of loan or credit contracts, and establishes the minimum fixed amount corresponding to the liability insurance or bank guarantee for the exercise of these activities.
  • Law 5/2019, of March 15, regulating real estate credit contracts.
  • Royal Decree 309/2019, of April 26, which partially develops Law 5/2019, of March 15, regulating real estate credit contracts and adopts other measures in this area.
  • Law of July 23, 1908, on usury, in reference to loan contracts.
  • European Code of Conduct on pre-contractual information for housing loans.
  • Organic Law 3/2018, of December 5, on the Protection of Personal Data and the guarantee of digital rights.
  • Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation)

Any other regional laws for the protection of consumers and users.