El Convenio entre el Ministerio de Justicia y la Generalitat de Catalunya en materia de asuntos religiosos: ¿El primer paso de la reforma de la Ley Orgánica de Libertad Religiosa?

Abstract

The government of Catalonia was invited to participate inOctober 2007 in the sessions of the Advisory Commission on ReligiousFreedom of the Spanish Government’s Department of Justice. The Catalanrepresentative was allowed to take part (although without voting power) in themeetings of that Commission. This system continued until September 2010when a cooperation agreement between the two governments was signed. Theobjective of this agreement was to implement the article 161.1 of the CatalanStatute of Autonomy of 2006. This agreement constitutes an early implementationof some of the new features introduced by the reform of the SpanishReligious Freedom Act in one of the Spanish regions.