Journal of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies Núm. 13 / 2019 Revista del Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos n.º 13 - Año: 2019 - Págs.: 307 a 328 316316 IV Chapter IV, entitled “Foreign Relations”, as developed by Isabel Roig and Irene Araguás Galcerá, examines the material and formal character of this limit, as set forth in Article 14.1.c) of the LTRAPIGG, through rigorous and exhaustive analysis. As noted previously, with regard to European Union law, Article 4 of (EC) Regulation no. 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council, dated 30 May 2001, respecting access of the public to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents, based on Agreement no. 205 of the Council of Europe on access to public documents, and dated 18 June 2009, this considers that institutions may deny access to a document whose release may represent damage to the protection of: “a) (…)” international relations” (Art. 3.1), among others. Taken as a starting point must be the fact that Articles 56, 63.2 and 93 to 96 of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 regulate the foreign activity of the State regarding international treaties. Moreover, specified in Articles 149.1.3º and 97 of the Constitution are matters “of the exclusive competence of the Spanish State” regarding questions of international relations as well as of the directing of foreign policy. Thus, the interpretation of Constitutional operation over the material is decisive. The contents of the chapter deal with analysis of the major precepts of Law 2/2014, dated 25 March, on the Foreign Service and Action of the State. According to its Arti-cle 1: “The object of this Law is the regulation of the Foreign Action of the State, enumera-tion of its guiding principles, identification of the subjects and scope of these, establishment of the instruments for its planning, monitoring and coordination, and regulation of the State Foreign Service, in order to ensure the coordination and coherence of the whole of the actions constituting it and their adherence to the directives, ends and objectives of Foreign Policy”. Following introduction of the judicial concept, determination is made of the principles and objectives of Foreign Policy. Thus, Article 2.1 of the regulatory text cited refers explicitly to the basic principles of Spanish Foreign Policy, establishing respect for human dignity, liberty, democracy, the State of Law and of human rights. The Foreign Policy of Spain shall defend and promote respect for and development of international law, in particular respect for the principles of the Charter of the United Nations. It shall promote projects of European construction and of the Ibero-ameri-can Community of Nations, as well as multilateralism at the heart of the international community. V Chapter V, produced by Francesc Mancilla i Muntada, offers a very exhaustive de-scription of the European and Constitutional bases of the limit to “Public Security” regulated in Article 14.1.d) of the LTRAPIGG. The author justifies the necessity of defining the indeterminate judicial concept within the framework of “a multi-level
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