Overview
- The European Court of Justice issued binding rulings on 16 July that found Spain’s amnesty law can be used for political reconciliation while excluding crimes like terrorism that caused deliberate, grave human-rights violations.
- Spain’s Supreme Court gave the law immediate effect for the first time on July 24 by extinguishing penalties for eight people convicted of disobedience or public-order offenses related to the procés.
- The Catalan government asked the Tribunal de Cuentas to declare accounting liabilities from the 1‑O and external promotion work extinguished, but that court has paused application and gave parties 10 days to submit arguments.
- The Catalan high court (TSJC) has given five days for responses to requests by Josep Maria Jové and Lluís Salvadó to withdraw prejudicial questions and have the amnesty applied directly to their cases.
- Major figures convicted or charged for the independence push remain in legal limbo because the Supreme Court is waiting for pending constitutional amparo proceedings, with the Constitutional Court set to begin hearings in September.