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Royal Decree-Law 6/2023: automated, proactive and assisted actions in the Administration of Justice

Government of Spain (Gobierno de Espana)

last revised 2023-12-20last verified 2026-09-041 versioncountry page →

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Digital-efficiency measures for the Spanish justice system. It distinguishes automated actions of simple processing, proactive actions such as alerts, and assisted actions in which systems including AI generate full or partial drafts to support judges, prosecutors and court lawyers; a draft cannot become a resolution without the operator's intervention and validation.

Applies to
judges, court-staff
Effective
20 Dec 2023
Current version
BOE-A-2023-25758, 20 December 2023 (consolidated) · 20 Dec 2023
Last verified
04 Sept 2026
Official text
www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2023-25758

What the document requires

  • Arts 56-57: definitions of automated, proactive and assisted actions in the administration of justice.
  • Assisted drafts serve only as support and require human validation before becoming resolutions.
  • Art. 35: data-oriented justice enables quality draft generation.

Version history

VersionDateWhat changedSource
BOE-A-2023-25758, 20 December 2023 (consolidated)current2023-12-20First version recorded.official

Sources

Cite this record

SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "Royal Decree-Law 6/2023: automated, proactive and assisted actions in the Administration of Justice" (Government of Spain (Gobierno de Espana), BOE-A-2023-25758, 20 December 2023 (consolidated), 2023-12-20), safelegalai.com/regulation/other/es-rdl-6-2023-actuaciones-automatizadas-asistidas (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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