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Administrative silence occurs when a Spanish public administration fails to respond within legal deadlines. Under LPAC 39/2015, silence can have positive or negative effects depending on your procedure type, automatically granting or denying your request and enabling you to file an appeal.

Choosing between recurso de alzada and reposición depends on whether the administrative act ends the procedure. If the act does not end the administrative process, you file reposición; if it does, you typically file alzada, following the decision tree under LPAC 39/2015.

Under LPAC 39/2015, the legal deadline for a Spanish administration to resolve is typically six months unless a specific rule states otherwise. If this period passes without a resolution, administrative silence applies and you can proceed with an appeal.

To plan an administrative appeal after no answer, determine the applicable silence effects under LPAC 39/2015, verify the maximum resolution period has passed, and use a decision tree to select the correct appeal route and calculate the filing deadlines.

You file an extraordinary review (revisión extraordinaria) when you need to challenge an administrative act that has become final, based on specific grounds like new documents or jurisdictional rulings, rather than using standard alzada or reposición appeals within regular deadlines.