Abstract
Contents: I. Challenges before the real perspective of an early new Spanish Criminal Procedure Law based on the adversarial system: A. Intimate relationship with criminal law; B. Criminal dogmatics and social reality; C. Criminal policy and criminal procedure; D. Substantive proposals to face current times; E. New understanding of some basic principles and decrease of procedural guaranties. Criminal Dogmatic and social reality; C. Criminal policy and criminal procedure; D. Substantive proposals to face the current times; E. New understanding of some basic principles and decrease of procedural guaranties; II. The change of understanding of some of the most determining institutions of the new system: A. Redefinition of the role of the procedural subjects; B. New orientations in the criminal prosecution; C. New orientations in the criminal prosecution; D. New orientations in the criminal procedure; E. New orientations in the criminal prosecution; E. New understanding of some basic principles and decrease of procedural guaranties. New orientations in the criminal prosecution, in particular the great difficulties of assuming the non-prosecution as the end of the process; C. The dubious relaxation in the gathering of evidence; III. Some antidotes that should be provided to the system; IV. General bibliographical note.