Founding act and statutes of an association (Spain)
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For three or more people setting up a non-profit association in Spain (cultural, leisure, neighbours', parents'…): a Spanish founding act naming the founders, their decision to form it and the first board, and complete statutes with the content required by art. 7 of Spain's Organic Law 1/2002 on the right of association. All founders sign it, and it is filed with the National Register of Associations or the register of the autonomous community. In Spanish.
- Made for use in Spain
- Last updated October 20, 2026
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When to use this document
- You and some friends want to set up a cultural association in Spain.
- The neighbours in your area want to form an association to deal with the town hall.
- You and other music lovers want to form an association, and the register asks for a founding act and statutes.
- You need statutes for a non-profit association that the regional register will accept.
What you fill in
The details the document asks for.
- Name of the association
- City
- Date
- First founder
- First founder's DNI or NIE (Spanish identity number)
- First founder's nationality
- First founder's address
- Second founder
- Second founder's DNI or NIE (Spanish identity number)
- Second founder's nationality
- Second founder's address
- Third founder
- Third founder's DNI or NIE (Spanish identity number)
- Third founder's nationality
- Third founder's address
- Fourth founder (if any)
- Fourth founder's DNI or NIE (Spanish identity number)
- Fourth founder's nationality
- Fourth founder's address
- Fifth founder (if any)
- Fifth founder's DNI or NIE (Spanish identity number)
- Fifth founder's nationality
- Fifth founder's address
- President of the association's board
- Secretary of the association's board
- Treasurer of the association's board
- Association's registered address in Spain
- Main area of activity (a region, or all of Spain)
- The association's aims
- The association's activities
- Board's term of office (years)
- Association's starting assets (in euros, may be zero)
- End of the association's financial year (day and month)
Common questions
- Where is a new association registered in Spain?
- With the National Register of Associations, run by Spain's Ministry of the Interior, if it acts throughout Spain or not mainly in one autonomous community; otherwise with the associations register of its autonomous community. The association has legal personality from the signing of the founding act, but until it is registered the founders are personally and jointly liable for its obligations to third parties (art. 10.4 of Organic Law 1/2002).
- Are there free model founding acts and statutes for associations in Spain?
- Yes. Spain's Ministry of the Interior and several regional registers, such as those of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Basque Government, publish free models of the founding act and statutes. This document is a complete text of our own, filled in with your association's details; it does not replace the registration application each register asks for.
- Do these statutes work in Catalonia, Andalusia or another region with its own law on associations?
- They contain what Spain's Organic Law 1/2002 requires everywhere in Spain. Several regions also have their own law on associations, such as Catalonia (book three of its Civil Code) and Andalusia (Law 4/2006), and their register checks the statutes against it. A sports club is also governed by its region's sports law and is entered in that region's register of sports bodies, which has its own requirements: check them before using these statutes. The text is in Castilian Spanish, valid throughout Spain; the registers of Catalonia, Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Galicia, the Basque Country and Navarre must also accept their co-official language.
- How many people are needed to form an association in Spain?
- At least three, natural or legal persons (art. 5 of Spain's Organic Law 1/2002); the document has room for five. All of them sign the founding act and the statutes, and the act appoints the first board, with a president, a secretary and a treasurer. Parents' associations and pupils' associations at schools have their own rules on the minimum number of founders.
How you can sign this document
- Print it and sign by hand. The signature lines in the document are left blank on purpose — sign on them in ink.
- Sign it yourself with a qualified electronic signature. If you already hold a QES — Evrotrust, B-Trust, StampIT, ZealiD or any qualified provider on the EU Trusted List, on a card, a USB token, in a mobile app or in the cloud — our signing guide explains step by step how to sign this exact file without invalidating it. Step-by-step help, and a way to check it worked
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