Abstract

FERNANDEZ, Celso Almuiña  and  CLAVELL, Sara Núñez de Prado. The Boletín Oficial del Estado: origins, evolution and functions over time. População e Sociedade [online]. 2019, n.32, pp.99-116.  Epub July 01, 2022. ISSN 0873-1861.

The Boletín Oficial del Estado is considered to be the result of the evolution of the gazettes that appeared around the 17th century and they soon became directly dependents on the government. The State’s Official Bulletins were used as a communication vehicle, to transmit information that benefitted the government, ignoring the information that was contrary to its interests. The growing complexity of the state forced it to increase the number of publications containing legislation, while it became necessary to publicise it, in order to raise awareness and make it enforceable. This is the time when the gazettes began their transitional journey to become the Boletines Oficiales. In modern times, with the emergence of new technologies and the internet in particular, these publications began a new stage that is characterised by its online development and the near disappearance of printed edition. This is precisely what this article is about: the evolution of the States’s Official Bulletin from the origins to the present.

Keywords : gazettes; Boletín Oficial del Estado; evolution; legislation; internet.

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