Legal regulations

  1. Spanish Law 14/1986, on general health.
  2. Spanish Law 33/2011, on general public health.
  3. Spanish Law 31/1995, on prevention of occupational risks.
  4. Catalan Law 7/2003, on health protection.
  5. Catalan Law 18/2009, on public health
  6. Spanish Royal Decree 664/1997, on workers' protection against risks related to exposure to biological agents at work.
  7. Spanish Royal Decree 773/1997, on minimum health and safety provisions for workers' use of individual protection equipment.
  8. Spanish Royal Decree 487/2022, to establish the health and sanitary criteria for preventing and monitoring legionellosis.
  9. Spanish Royal Decree 1299/2006, to approve the registry of professional diseases in the Social Security system and to establish criteria for reporting and recording them.
  10. Spanish Royal Decree 298/2009, on protection of workers who are pregnant, have given birth or are breastfeeding.
  11. Catalan Decree 297/1997, to approve the regulations on post mortem procedures.
  12. Catalan Decree 352/2004, to establish the health and sanitary conditions for the prevention and monitoring of legionelosis.
  13. Spanish Order ESS/1451/2013, to establish provisions for preventing injuries caused by sharp instruments in the health and hospital sector.

  1. Spanish Law 9/2003, to establish the legal framework for the contained use, voluntary release and commercialisation of genetically modified organisms.
  2. Spanish Royal Decree 178/2004, to approve the general regulations for enforcing Law 9/2003 of 25 April, which establishes the legal framework for the contained use, voluntary release and commercialisation of genetically modified organisms.
  3. Directive 2009/41/CE, on the contained use of GMOs.
  4. Instrument of Ratification of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety supplementing the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, 29 January, 2000.

  1. Spanish Law 8/2003, on animal health.
  2. Spanish Decree 4 February 1955, Regulations on epizootics.