Related Rule
Spain
Practice Relating to Rule 110. Treatment and Care of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked
Spain’s LOAC Manual (1996) provides: “As soon as the tactical situation permits, all measures shall be taken to care for the wounded and shipwrecked.”
Spain, Orientaciones. El Derecho de los Conflictos Armados, Publicación OR7-004, 2 Tomos, aprobado por el Estado Mayor del Ejército, Division de Operaciones, 18 March 1996, Vol. I, § 5.d.2.(5).
The manual adds that enemy wounded must be brought to the commander or to the nearest medical post.
Spain, Orientaciones. El Derecho de los Conflictos Armados, Publicación OR7-004, 2 Tomos, aprobado por el Estado Mayor del Ejército, Division de Operaciones, 18 March 1996, Vol. I, § 10.6.b.(3) and 10.6.c.
Spain’s LOAC Manual (2007) states: “As soon as the tactical situation permits, all possible measures must be taken to … assist the wounded and shipwrecked. Enemy wounded and sick must … receive the medical care and attention required by their condition”.
Spain, Orientaciones. El Derecho de los Conflictos Armados, Tomo 1, Publicación OR7–004, (Edición Segunda), Mando de Adiestramiento y Doctrina, Dirección de Doctrina, Orgánica y Materiales, 2 November 2007, § 5.2.d.(5); see also § 10.3.e.(1).
Spain’s Penal Code (1995) punishes the deprivation of necessary medical aid.
Spain, Penal Code, 1995, Article 609.
Spain’s Penal Code (1995), as amended in 2003, states:
Anyone who [commits any of the following acts] during armed conflict shall be punished with three to seven years’ imprisonment:
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3. [N]ot providing … necessary medical assistance to a protected person.
Spain, Penal Code, 1995, as amended on 25 November 2003, Article 612(3).
Spain’s LOAC Manual (1996) states that medical personnel shall provide the wounded and sick with the medical care required by their condition. It states that only urgent medical reasons may justify priority in the order of medical treatment.
Spain, Orientaciones. El Derecho de los Conflictos Armados, Publicación OR7-004, 2 Tomos, aprobado por el Estado Mayor del Ejército, Division de Operaciones, 18 March 1996, Vol. I, § 9.2.(a).2.
Spain’s LOAC Manual (2007) states: “Enemy wounded and sick must … receive the medical care and attention required by their condition, with no distinction being made between enemy wounded and sick and the party’s own wounded and sick.”
Spain, Orientaciones. El Derecho de los Conflictos Armados, Tomo 1, Publicación OR7–004, (Edición Segunda), Mando de Adiestramiento y Doctrina, Dirección de Doctrina, Orgánica y Materiales, 2 November 2007, § 5.2.d.(5).
The manual also states that “the duties of medical personnel, as established by the law of armed conflict” include: “provide assistance in accordance with purely medical criteria; priorities in treating people can only be established on medical grounds”.
Spain, Orientaciones. El Derecho de los Conflictos Armados, Tomo 1, Publicación OR7–004, (Edición Segunda), Mando de Adiestramiento y Doctrina, Dirección de Doctrina, Orgánica y Materiales, 2 November 2007, § 9.2.a.(2).(b).
