The Interministerial Committees, in
Spain
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, are a collective work body and sometimes decision-making-body consisting of senior officials of the
State Administration belonging to different
departments
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
* Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
. To be considered an interministerial committee it is needed to be composed by at least three members and be able to make decisions, make proposals, advise or control a specific matter.
Unlike the
Government Delegated Committees, to this committees may attend officials from other administrations or representatives of social interest organizations.
Common notes
Powers
The powers of the interministerial committees vary among themselves since their specific functions are established in their constitutive instrument. However, they need to have one of this competences:
* Decision-making powers.
* The power for proposing or issuance of compulsory reports that should serve as a basis for decisions of other administrative bodies.
* Powers to monitor or control the actions of other bodies of the
General State Administration
The General State Administration () is one of the Public Administrations of Spain. It is the only administration with powers throughout the national territory and it is controlled by the central government.
It comprises a:
* Central Organizatio ...
.
Requirements
The constitutive instrument of this committees is not always the same:
* If the chair of the committee has the rank of director-general or more, a royal decree it is needed.
* If the chair of the committee has a lower rank of that of director-general, a joint ministerial order it is needed (this means, an order issued by the ministers of the departments involved).
Current committees
These are some of the committees that are currently active:
References
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Government of Spain