CONSTITUTIONAL COURT of SPAIN
Office of the President
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INFORMATION NOTE NO. 76/2022
THE PLENARY SESSION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT HAS ADMITTED FOR PROCESSING APPEALS BY THE ELDERLY AND MINORS AGAINST THE COURT'S JUDICIAL DECISION TO VACCINATE THEM AGAINST COVID-19
The Plenary Session of the Constitutional Court has decided to admit for processing the appeals by elderly people and minors against the judicial decision to vaccinate them against Covid-19.
The Court understands that these appeals raise a problem which affects the principle of equality, the fundamental right to physical and moral integrity, the right to health protection and the right to privacy, protection of health and personal and family privacy (arts. 14, 15, 18.1 and 43 EC), on which there is no constitutional doctrine.
It also considers that the issue raised in these actions for protection
transcends the specific case because it raises a legal question of relevant and general social repercussion.
In the appellants' view, the inoculation of a medicinal product at the experimental stage must always be voluntary in nature and, therefore, the judicial decisions requiring them to be vaccinated are contrary to the fundamental rights recognised not only in the Constitution, but also in international conventions and treaties.
Madrid, 14 September 2022
