Variants of the National Flag (Spain)

Last modified: 2004-12-29 by santiago dotor
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Civil, State and War Flag and Civil and War Ensign		Civil Flag and Ensign variant with no coat-of-arms
by Antonio Gutiérrez, taken with permission from the S.E.V. website		by Jorge Candeias

• Flag Variants
• National Flag with Osborne's Bull
• Flag-like logo on Spanish army vehicles in Iraq

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• Spain

According to Law 39/1981 of 28th October 1981 (Boletín Oficial del Estado no. 271 of 12th November 1981), official entities must display the flag with coat-of-arms. Neither the Constitution nor the 1981 Law limits the use of this flag to official entities however, so it is both a civil and a state (and war) flag. It is not infrequent to see the flag displayed without the coat-of-arms, but I believe the reason is only one of cost. Only people not affording to pay for a coat-of-arms-bearing flag (both individuals and low-level or small sized administrations) display a plain flag. This is becoming more and more infrequent however, since nylon flags with a printed coat-of-arms are now cheap to obtain.

Santiago Dotor, 7 April 1999

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