THE COUNCIL OF STATE AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM

The Council of State has been traditionally considered as an administrative institution, given its position within the executive sphere and its relevance in the birth and development of that particular legal branch. But all those reasons cannot lead us to ignore that this organ is expressly defined as the (supreme consultative body of the Government" by the Spanish Constitution. Thus, this pages try to deepen in the constitutional profiles of this body and its function. A particularly important issue after the recent reform produced in the legal regime of this body by the Organic Act 3/2004, of December the 28th, which modifies its composition, its internal structure and its powers, with the purpose of making it possible for it to participate in the procedure for constitutional reform. The result of this participation is a Report on reforms of the Spanish Constitution, which of course receives particular attention, with respect to its procedural features and its possible impact on the Spanish constitutional system.