The Supreme Court of Spain has affirmed that it is not stated in the Horizontal Property Act that the meetings of the Community of Owners have to be held in Spanish. The Supreme Court affirms that the holdings of these meetings are not official, public acts but private ones among individual, private parties.
The State must not intervene within the relationships among private parties ( legally private relationships)
Provision 13.1 of our COnstitution affirms that “ foreigners have in Spain the public liberties gathered in the COnstitution as they are stablished in the Treaties and Law”, and provision 27 of the Civil Code “ foreigners have in Spain, same civil rights as Spanish citizens, except what it is stated in Treaties and Laws”
The right to use a foreign language is unquestionable but, as with every right, it is necessary to set a procedure by which the existente of this right won´t cause non-defense to any other people.
Submitt to the community of owner for votation in a previous meeting, which is/are the language/s which is/are going to be used. Therefore, those owners who does not know the language can bring a translator. The votation will be the one required in article 17.3 of the Community of Owners.
The costs of the translator needs to be paid by the Community of owners.