The Foreign Office says it has received an assurance from Spain there will be no repeat of the bag-opening incident at the centre of a diplomatic row.
UK official baggage was opened by the Spanish Guardia Civil at the Gibraltar border on Friday, prompting a formal protest by the British government.
Spain had said no diplomatic bag was involved.
But UK Europe Minister David Lidington said the FO had now received an explanation from Spanish officials.
The incident is due to be raised in Parliament later.
"In our protests we requested an urgent explanation of this incident from the Spanish government and sought assurances that there will be no further interference with the UK's official correspondence," Mr Lidington said in a Commons statement.
"We have now received that explanation from the Spanish and have been assured that we will see no repeat of these actions."
'Take action'Spain's foreign minister Jose Garcia-Margallo had said: "There is no incident. If it is not a diplomatic bag, there is no diplomatic incident.
"A bag was opened, which was not a diplomatic bag."
Spanish officials have been quoted as saying that a bag has to come from an embassy or a ministry to be protected under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.
Spanish newspaper ABC said it understood the incident concerned a package from the governor of Gibraltar which was being carried by a message company with other bags.
It said the Spanish Guardia Civil opened the bags, possibly without noticing that one of them had a seal that identified it.
The Foreign Office now says two UK government bags were opened. It would not say what was in them, but in the minister's statement said they contained "official correspondence and communications [and were] clearly marked as such".
It said protocol surrounding official correspondence and diplomatic bags was governed by the Vienna Convention.
Series of disagreementsAccording to the international convention, packages carrying official documents and other material deemed necessary for use by a diplomatic mission - provided that they are clearly marked as such - cannot be opened or detained.
Mr Lidington said the convention embodied "important international principles that protect official correspondence and communication between a state and its representatives.
"The UK strictly adheres to these principles and we expect other states to do the same."
This row comes days after Foreign Office minister Mark Simmonds told MPs Britain was to review its naval policy around the British territory following an illegal incursion into its territorial waters by a Spanish state vessel.
The RV Ramon Margalef was challenged by the Royal Navy after it refused to leave Gibraltar waters after 22 hours despite repeated requests.
It is the latest in a series of disagreements between Spain and Gibraltar.
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