Among the important regulations that the Ministry of Justice worked on during the 10th legislature (2012-2015), Law 29/2015, on international legal cooperation in civil matters (LCJIC), which was delayed in its publication for fifteen years, could go unnoticed. This law fills an important gap, making globalised, economic and family relationships more flexible and legally secure, both in the judicial sphere and outside it; opening up new, fast and efficient channels for personal relations between judges from different and distant States; regulating the Spanish Central Authority, which carries out an extraordinary task of coordination, assistance and international promotion in the Ministry of Justice, which should be highlighted and thanked for; providing new tools for international legal assistance; proof of the law; the adaptation of unknown institutions and the recognition and enforcement in Spain of resolutions and documents, in the judicial, notarial and registry spheres. Despite its subsidiary nature with respect to the EU regulations and international conventions to which Spain is a party, the LCJIC has a very broad scope of application insofar as it covers the gaps in these, which are important, especially in the European sphere. The EU, in the area of civil justice, has an increasingly urgent need for the so-called Regulation O, so that the European legislator can, in the matters that it regulates, provide continuity ad intra The EU needs to align its rules with those of the Member States in the basic aspects required for their proper implementation. In other words, to create a genuine internal space governed by mutual trust and coordinated rules: procedural and law-selection rules - sometimes almost material - which are now lacking. This highlights the imperfection of a system based on the universality of the law - one can point to that of a third state - despite the absence of conventions on exequatur, even if great hopes are now pinned on the draft Hague Convention - Judgment of the European Court of Justice.gment Convention- which is starting its work.

Therefore, insofar as certain aspects of international private law cannot be covered by the Union because they lack a legal basis in the Treaties, it is essential to have a national regulation that covers them, and this is the purpose, among others, of Law 29/2015. With a general and basic character, it also fills in the gaps in national laws, such as the case of proof of foreign law in arbitration. In this area, in the process, it increases judicial arbitration, allowing that, exceptionally, if full proof of foreign law is not achieved, Spanish law may be applied, if this avoids the defencelessness of a party. The LCJIC also strengthens the extrajudicial sphere in the wake of an unstoppable international trend. It thus regulates international notifications by notary and, in view of the current rigidity of the proof of non-judicial foreign law in the Register, it allows the flexibility to adapt - to adapt the law - figures unknown in our legal system under judicial control, which will undoubtedly favour foreign investment in Spain by reducing rigidities, although always on the basis of compliance with tax and money laundering prevention obligations. In a pedagogical manner, the LCJIC regulates the recognition and enforcement in Spain of judgments and of certain measures prior to their finality. In addition, it reminds once again - after the Law on prosecution and the Law on voluntary jurisdiction - that an essential principle in our legal system, as in all neighbouring countries, is the functional equivalence between authorities to avoid litigation in the circulation of documents and extrajudicial resolutions. The new law also improves the incidental recognition of registration, making it possible, when the registration of a foreign judicial decision is sought, to facilitate and reduce the costs of exequatur. All of these aspects, in short, will allow us to be closer to each other in any part of the world.