Armada Española

Shareholders of Armada Española

Armada Española has no shareholders, because it has no share capital and no legal form capable of carrying one. It is a service of Spain’s Fuerzas Armadas (Constitución Española, art. 8.1) integrated into the Ministerio de Defensa (Ley Orgánica 5/2005, de 17 de noviembre, art. 9.2). The ministerial departments and organs of the Administración General del Estado are not separate legal persons: Ley 40/2015, de 1 de octubre, de Régimen Jurídico del Sector Público (BOE, 2 October 2015), art. 3.4, provides that each Public Administration acts for the fulfilment of its ends with a single legal personality (personalidad jurídica única). There is no equity interest in the Armada for anyone to hold.

Nor is there a beneficial owner. No natural person holds, directly or indirectly, any capital, voting right or economic interest in the Armada, so no beneficial owner exists to be identified and no ownership threshold applies. The Registro Central de Titularidades Reales, created by Real Decreto 609/2023, de 11 de julio (BOE núm. 165, 12 July 2023; in force 19 September 2023), collects declarations from Spanish legal persons and from entities and structures without legal personality, filed by those entities’ own administrators; an organ of the state has no such capital structure to declare and no administrators in that sense. A nil result here is a statement about the kind of body this is, not about a filing that is late or withheld.

The Registro Mercantil cannot hold a shareholding record for it either. Under the Código de Comercio (Real Decreto de 22 de agosto de 1885), art. 16.1, the register’s object is the inscription of individual traders, commercial companies, credit and insurance undertakings and mutual guarantee societies, collective investment institutions and pension funds, economic interest groupings, professional civil societies, and other natural or legal persons where a law so requires. A service of the armed forces falls into none of those classes. The Registro Mercantil Central describes its own function as issuing company names for the incorporation of companies and commercial entities, and centralising data received from the territorial Registros Mercantiles.

Data availability

Full. The label is used here in the sense that the ownership position is completely established from published law, and not in the sense that a shareholder list was obtained: there is nothing to list. “Not public”, “Restricted”, “Not found” and “Partial” would each imply that shareholder or beneficial-ownership data exists and is withheld, missing or incomplete. It does not exist. Readers should treat the absence of shareholders and of a beneficial owner on this page as a determinate legal fact about an organ of the Spanish state, not as a data gap.

Sources

• Constitución Española, art. 8. Boletín Oficial del Estado núm. 311, 29 December 1978.
• Ley Orgánica 5/2005, de 17 de noviembre, de la Defensa Nacional, arts. 9.2 and 10.1. BOE núm. 276, 18 November 2005; in force 8 December 2005.
• Ley 40/2015, de 1 de octubre, de Régimen Jurídico del Sector Público, arts. 2.1 and 3.4. BOE, 2 October 2015.
• Real Decreto 609/2023, de 11 de julio, por el que se crea el Registro Central de Titularidades Reales y se aprueba su Reglamento, art. 1 of the Reglamento. BOE núm. 165, 12 July 2023; in force 19 September 2023.
• Código de Comercio (Real Decreto de 22 de agosto de 1885), art. 16, consolidated text published by the Boletín Oficial del Estado.
• Reglamento del Registro Mercantil, Real Decreto 1784/1996, de 19 de julio. BOE, 31 July 1996.
• Registro Mercantil Central, statement of functions (denominaciones sociales; publicidad formal; centralisation of data from the Registros Mercantiles), rmc.es, consulted 7 October 2026.

Method note: this check establishes the position from the registers’ published scope rather than from a keyed index search. No name-keyed query of the Registro Mercantil index was run for “Armada Española”, because an organ of the state is outside the classes the register inscribes, so a nil result would carry no additional information.

Directors and officers of Armada Española

Armada Española has no directors and no officers in the company-law sense, because it is not a company. It has no board, no company secretary and no registered representatives, and there is no directors’ register anywhere that relates to it. What exists instead is a set of public offices created by statute and by royal decree.

This page names no individuals. No serving or former member of the Fuerzas Armadas is identified here, and no date of birth, nationality, residence or correspondence address is published. The offices below are described as offices. Military rank is not a corporate directorship, and no holder of any of these offices is or should be described as a director of an entity.

• Ministro / Ministra de Defensa (Minister of Defence) — the political head of the department. Under Ley Orgánica 5/2005, art. 7.1, the Minister develops and executes defence policy under the Government’s direction.
• Jefe de Estado Mayor de la Armada, styled Almirante Jefe de Estado Mayor de la Armada (AJEMA; Chief of the Naval Staff) — under Ley Orgánica 5/2005, art. 13.2, the Chiefs of Staff of the Ejército de Tierra, the Armada and the Ejército del Aire exercise command of their respective service under the authority of the Minister of Defence. Real Decreto 521/2020, de 19 de mayo, art. 5, repeats that command function; Real Decreto 205/2024, de 27 de febrero, art. 2.5, gives the office the administrative rank of subsecretario. Orden DEF/707/2020, de 27 de julio, places the Estado Mayor de la Armada within the Cuartel General as the principal auxiliary command organ supporting the office.
• Jefe de Estado Mayor de la Defensa (Chief of the Defence Staff) — a joint office outside the Armada’s own chain, named here only because Ley Orgánica 5/2005 assigns it the operational employment of the Fuerzas Armadas, which the service chiefs do not hold.

Recent officer changes

None are reported here as officer changes, because the concept does not apply. Appointment to and removal from the office of Jefe de Estado Mayor de la Armada is effected by royal decree agreed in the Consejo de Ministros on the proposal of the Minister of Defence (Ley 39/2007, de 19 de noviembre, de la carrera militar, art. 13.1), and each such royal decree is published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado under section II, “Autoridades y personal”. That is a public-office appointment, not an officer filing against a legal entity, and this page does not reproduce the identities it carries.

Data availability

Full. As with ownership, the label records that the position is completely established from published law, not that an officer list was obtained. The statutory offices, the instruments that create them, the authority under which each is exercised and the instrument by which each is filled are all published and cited above. There is no officer register because there are no officers. The identities of current holders are published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado and, in organisational-chart form, under the active-publicity duties of Ley 19/2013, de 9 de diciembre, de transparencia, acceso a la información pública y buen gobierno (BOE núm. 295, 10 December 2013), arts. 2.1(a), 6 and 10, through the central Portal de la Transparencia; they are deliberately omitted from this page because no know-your-business purpose is served by naming serving military personnel. “Not public” and “Restricted” would be wrong, since nothing is being withheld from the reader by any register; “Not found” would be wrong, since nothing was sought and failed.

Sources

• Ley Orgánica 5/2005, de 17 de noviembre, de la Defensa Nacional, arts. 7.1, 9.2 and 13.2. BOE núm. 276, 18 November 2005; in force 8 December 2005.
• Real Decreto 521/2020, de 19 de mayo, por el que se establece la organización básica de las Fuerzas Armadas, arts. 5, 17–20. BOE núm. 143, 21 May 2020; in force 22 May 2020.
• Orden DEF/707/2020, de 27 de julio, por la que se desarrolla la organización básica de la Armada. BOE, 28 July 2020; in force 29 July 2020.
• Real Decreto 205/2024, de 27 de febrero, por el que se desarrolla la estructura orgánica básica del Ministerio de Defensa, arts. 1.3 and 2.5. BOE núm. 52, 28 February 2024; in force 29 February 2024.
• Ley 39/2007, de 19 de noviembre, de la carrera militar, art. 13.1. Boletín Oficial del Estado, November 2007, consolidated text.
• Ley 19/2013, de 9 de diciembre, de transparencia, acceso a la información pública y buen gobierno, arts. 2.1(a), 6 and 10. BOE núm. 295, 10 December 2013.
• Armada Española, official organisation pages, armada.defensa.gob.es, consulted 7 October 2026 (for the Orden DEF/707/2020 and Instrucción 15/2021, de 11 de marzo, basis of the current internal organisation).

Group structure of Armada Española

Armada Española has no group structure, no parent company, no subsidiaries and no branches, and it is itself neither a subsidiary nor a branch in company-law terms. Its position is administrative, not corporate, and no table of corporate relationships is given below because none exists to verify.

The administrative position is this. The Armada is one of the three services that make up the Fuerzas Armadas (Constitución Española, art. 8.1; Ley Orgánica 5/2005, de 17 de noviembre, art. 10.1, which treats the Fuerzas Armadas as a single entity integrating the specific forms of action of each of its components). The Fuerzas Armadas are integrated into the Ministerio de Defensa (Ley Orgánica 5/2005, art. 9.2), and Real Decreto 205/2024, de 27 de febrero, art. 1.3, structures that department into the Fuerzas Armadas, the Secretaría de Estado de Defensa, the Subsecretaría de Defensa and the Secretaría General de Política de Defensa. The Ministerio de Defensa is a ministerial department of the Administración General del Estado, which under Ley 40/2015, de 1 de octubre, art. 3.4, acts with a single legal personality. The legal person here is therefore the Administración General del Estado; the Armada is an organ within it, not an entity under it.

On identifiers: there is no company registration number, and no entity-level identifier that a counterparty could treat as the Armada’s equivalent of one. Spanish tax identification numbers beginning with the letter S are assigned to órganos de la Administración del Estado y de las Comunidades Autónomas (Agencia Tributaria, NIF composition guidance for legal persons and entities). Individual organs and paying units of the Ministerio de Defensa hold their own such numbers for budget execution and electronic invoicing: a convenio of the Ministerio de Defensa published by Resolución 420/38258/2024, de 20 de junio (BOE núm. 169, 13 July 2024), prints among its órgano gestor details “Sección de Gestión Económica y Tesorería-DAE Armada. NIF S2815001I” alongside “Área de Servicios Económicos de la Subdirección General de Servicios Económicos y Pagadurías. NIF S2800506D”. Those identify budget-execution units inside a single legal person; they are not entity identifiers and must not be used as a company number. This check did not establish from a primary source any single NIF standing for the Ministerio de Defensa as a whole, and none exists for “Armada Española” as an entity.

On accounts and funding: the Armada files no commercial accounts and has none to file. The Cuenta de la Administración General del Estado is formed each year by the Intervención General de la Administración del Estado and sent to the Tribunal de Cuentas before 31 July of the following year, covering the patrimony, financial situation, economic result and budget execution of the Administración General del Estado as a whole (Orden EHA/3067/2011, de 8 de noviembre, Instrucción de contabilidad para la Administración General del Estado, reglas 39 to 41; Ley 47/2003, de 26 de noviembre, General Presupuestaria, arts. 130 and 131, and art. 136.2 on publication in the Registro de cuentas anuales del sector público). It consolidates the department; there is no separate account for the Armada. Funding is appropriated to Sección 14, Ministerio de Defensa, in the state budget — last approved as Ley 31/2022, de 23 de diciembre, de Presupuestos Generales del Estado para el año 2023. A state appropriation is not the revenue or turnover of a legal entity and should not be read as one.

Recent structural changes

Dated changes to the governing instruments, not to any corporate structure: Real Decreto 521/2020, de 19 de mayo, in force 22 May 2020, reset the basic organisation of the Fuerzas Armadas; Orden DEF/707/2020, de 27 de julio, in force 29 July 2020, developed the basic organisation of the Armada; Real Decreto 205/2024, de 27 de febrero, in force 29 February 2024, redeveloped the basic organic structure of the Ministerio de Defensa and was itself later amended, including by Real Decreto 896/2024, de 10 de septiembre.

Data availability

Full. The position is completely established from published law: the Armada’s place in the Fuerzas Armadas, the integration of the Fuerzas Armadas into the Ministerio de Defensa, and the single legal personality of the Administración General del Estado are each set out in cited instruments. No linkage data is missing, restricted or merely unfound — corporate linkage is not a property this body can have. The Spanish public-sector transparency regime publishes its organisation chart, staffing table, contracts, convenios and grants through the central Portal de la Transparencia under Ley 19/2013, and its accounts through the Intervención General de la Administración del Estado; what no public source publishes, because no such thing exists, is a share register, a beneficial-ownership declaration, commercial annual accounts or a Registro Mercantil certificate.

Sources

• Constitución Española, art. 8. BOE núm. 311, 29 December 1978.
• Ley Orgánica 5/2005, de 17 de noviembre, de la Defensa Nacional, arts. 9.2 and 10.1. BOE núm. 276, 18 November 2005.
• Real Decreto 205/2024, de 27 de febrero, por el que se desarrolla la estructura orgánica básica del Ministerio de Defensa, art. 1.3. BOE núm. 52, 28 February 2024; in force 29 February 2024. Amended, among others, by Real Decreto 896/2024, de 10 de septiembre.
• Real Decreto 521/2020, de 19 de mayo, por el que se establece la organización básica de las Fuerzas Armadas. BOE núm. 143, 21 May 2020; in force 22 May 2020.
• Orden DEF/707/2020, de 27 de julio, por la que se desarrolla la organización básica de la Armada. BOE, 28 July 2020; in force 29 July 2020.
• Ley 40/2015, de 1 de octubre, de Régimen Jurídico del Sector Público, arts. 2.1 and 3.4. BOE, 2 October 2015.
• Agencia Tributaria, guidance on the composition of the NIF for legal persons and entities (letter S: órganos de la Administración del Estado y de las Comunidades Autónomas), sede.agenciatributaria.gob.es, consulted 7 October 2026; Orden EHA/451/2008, de 20 de febrero, on the composition of the NIF.
• Resolución 420/38258/2024, de 20 de junio, publishing a convenio of the Ministerio de Defensa. BOE núm. 169, 13 July 2024 (órgano gestor NIFs S2815001I and S2800506D).
• Ley 47/2003, de 26 de noviembre, General Presupuestaria, arts. 130, 131 and 136.2. BOE núm. 284, 27 November 2003.
• Orden EHA/3067/2011, de 8 de noviembre, Instrucción de contabilidad para la Administración General del Estado, reglas 39 to 41, as applied by the Intervención General de la Administración del Estado in publishing the Cuenta de la Administración General del Estado (igae.pap.hacienda.gob.es, consulted 7 October 2026).
• Ley 31/2022, de 23 de diciembre, de Presupuestos Generales del Estado para el año 2023, Sección 14, Ministerio de Defensa. BOE, 24 December 2022.
• Ley 19/2013, de 9 de diciembre, de transparencia, acceso a la información pública y buen gobierno, arts. 2.1(a), 6 and 10. BOE núm. 295, 10 December 2013.