The first half of September produced little that changes what a Spanish company must do, and one item that finally makes a fourteen-year-old treaty usable. The forward calendar is where the value is this time.
The Convention was signed in Manila on 12 November 2002 and has been in force since 1 August 2012. What it never had was an administrative agreement: the document that names the liaison bodies, orders the forms into existence and sets out how a pension claim filed on one side is processed against contributions made on the other. That agreement was signed in Madrid on 11 September 2026 and took effect on signature. In Spain the liaison bodies are the INSS, and the ISM for the seafarers regime.
Real Decreto-ley 22/2026 of 1 September approved urgent social and economic support measures for the autonomous city of Ceuta. As a decree-law it took effect immediately and required parliamentary convalidation, which was debated in the plenary session of 22 to 24 September.
The Permanent Immigration Observatory reported 94,465 foreign nationals holding a valid study stay authorisation at 30 June 2026, up 4.5 per cent year on year and up by 51,966 since June 2021. Authorisations for higher education grew 14.4 per cent in the last year, and students and family members from Central and South America account for 52 per cent of the five-year increase.
2 December 2026: the Article 50 grace period ends for generative AI systems placed on the market before 2 August 2026, and the marking obligation bites. 9 December 2026: the new Product Liability Directive applies to products placed on the market from that date. 1 January 2027: Verifactu for corporate income tax payers. First twenty days of October: the ordinary Modelo 210 window for non-residents declaring third-quarter rental income separately.