On the morning of Wednesday, April 19, the Official State Gazette (BOE) apparently repealed the Spanish Constitution due to a computer error. Employees of the legal portal Iberley reported the error when, upon entering the official gazette’s website, they came across the text “disposición derogada” (repealed provision). According to a report, this failure affected the entire database, including other fundamental norms such as the Civil Code, the Penal Code, and the General Social Security Law, among others—a total of 12,000 norms. After receiving Iberley’s alert, the BOE’s Citizen Attention Service fixed the error in about 12 minutes, according to the agency.
The BOE has stated that this failure has no legal value since its database is only informative. In addition, the agency has explained that it has been a punctual error and that it is not the first time that an error of this type has been detected in its platform. On the other hand, Iberley assures that this is not the first time they have detected a failure of these characteristics in the BOE.
Despite the error, no further problems have been detected during the day, and the Spanish Constitution and the other affected regulations remain fully in force and appear on the BOE website with their usual consolidated text.