MADRID, 26 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced this Thursday a reform of the regulatory law of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) to increase its control, as well as a new official secrets law that replaces the current one, from 1968.
Sánchez has made these announcements in Congress during his appearance to report on the ‘Pegasus case’ of espionage, where he has vindicated the system that governs the operation of the intelligence services but has advanced his will to approve “regulatory advances” accompanied by ” higher budget commitments.
In this sense, it has announced an “adaptation” of the law that regulates the CNI, from the year 2002, to adapt it to new challenges, especially those derived from new technologies, “while continuing to fulfill its mission of services to national security and defense of national interests and the constitutional order”. It is, as he has pointed out, mechanisms of democratic control.
In addition, he has once again promised to reform the official secrets law, already included in the Government’s regulatory plans for the last two years. Sánchez has assumed that this measure is “fundamental and urgent” to adapt the norm to “democratic, constitutional principles and the best and highest international standards.”