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National law regarding volunteering
The Spanish law, keeping in mind the precedents of the two previous documents (The European Charter and the Universal Declaration of Volunteering) approved the National Law of Volunteering in 1996, making a declaration of intent in the preamble that accompanied the legal regulations.
It makes a reference to the regulation of the shared responsibility of the state and the public in the participation of the resolution of problems of the underprivileged.
It also mentions an increasingly more active role that is demanded of the public, above all from organizations that are based on solidarity and altruism, which are fundamentally oriented at the eradication of situations of marginalization and the participation in the design and implementation of social public policies.
It emphasizes the fact that “a basic manifestation of this social initiative from the volunteer is the expression of solidarity through freedom and altruism.”
With this law, based on article 9.2 of the Constitution, the State wants to both guarantee the freedom of citizens to express their commitment to solidarity, as well as recognize, promote and encourage voluntary action in various forms. It provides for the possibility that the Autonomous Communities have already dictated or could dictate future laws within its jurisdiction.
