Article 1. (Organic Act 1/2004 of28 Decemberon Integrated Protection Measures against Gender Violence)
Purpose of the Act
1. The purpose of this Act is to combat the violence exercised against women by their present or former spouses or by men with whom they maintain or have maintained analogous affective relations, with or without cohabitation, as an expression of discrimination, the situationof inequality and the power relations prevailing between the sexes.
2. The present Act establishes integrated protection measures whose goal is to prevent, punish and eradicate this violence and lend assistance to its victims.
3. The gender violence to which this Act refers encompasses all acts of physical and psychological violence, including offences against sexual liberty, threats, coercion and the arbitrary deprivation of liberty."
Legal provisions on protection orders
Law 27/2003, of 31 July, governing the Protection Order for Victims of Domestic Violence.
Legal Source
Organic Act 1/2004 of 28 December on Integrated Protection Measures against Gender Violence