Royal Decree 542/2009, of 7 April, which restructured the ministerial departments, has created the Ministry of Education, which corresponds to the proposal and implementation of the Government's policy on education, of vocational training and of universities.

In turn, after the Royal Decree 640/2009, of April 17, for which the Royal Decree 542/2009, of April 7, is developed, and the ministerial departments are restructured, it establishes the basic organic structure of the At the same time, the Council, acting on a proposal from the Ministers concerned, will give the President-in-Office, on the initiative of the Ministers concerned, the Minister of the Presidency, on the initiative of the Ministers concerned, to give the Council of Ministers the real decrees adapting the structures of the departments to the new organizational framework.

It is now necessary to modify and develop the basic organic structure of the department by means of this royal decree, in which the higher organs and directors of the Ministry of Education are determined up to the organic level of general sub-direction and the competencies of each of these bodies are defined.

Finally, among the proposed organizational reforms, the invocation of article 18.2 of Law 6/1997 of 14 April, of the Organization and the Functioning of the General Administration of the State, in relation to the Directorates-General for Training and University Orientation and International Relations, in such a way as to ensure that the holder has the status of an official belonging to a body or scale for which the title of the Doctor, Bachelor, Architect or equivalent. The application of this derogation to the ordinary procedure for the appointment of the Directors-General requires an adequate statement of reasons for the specific characteristics of the tasks entrusted to it.

In this regard, it should be noted that the matters on which the two Directorates-General mentioned will project their activity justify that their holder does not necessarily have to meet the status of an official, as they are These areas are not expressly attributed to the bodies and scales of officials of the General Administration of the State and do not constitute a field reserved for the activities of the Public Administrations. On the one hand, comprehensive care for university students constitutes a novel responsibility assumed by the Ministry of Education, which is entrusted to the General Directorate of Training and University Orientation, and on whose performance there is no accumulated experience in the administrative field. On the other hand, the functions of promoting the modernization and internationalisation of the Spanish university system and the institutional strengthening of universities and the promotion of the generation and return of knowledge to society The European Commission has also been involved in the development of the European Community. In the specific case of university internationalisation, which is considered one of the priorities of the department's policy, the contribution of experience from the private sector is of particular importance.

Therefore, in order to ensure the presence at the head of these management bodies of persons who fulfil all the qualities and competences required to perform these posts, it is considered appropriate to extend the profile of potential candidates and consider the possibility that the positions of Director General of Training and University Orientation and International Relations can be occupied by persons who do not have the status of official, always that their professional competence and experience of conformity with the Article 6.10 of Law 6/1997.

In its virtue, at the initiative of the Minister of Education, on the proposal of the First Vice-President of the Government and Minister of the Presidency and after deliberation by the Council of Ministers at its meeting on 3 July 2009,

DISPONGO:

Article 1. General organization of the department.

1. The Ministry of Education is the department of the General Administration of the State responsible for the proposal and implementation of the Government's policy in education, vocational training and universities.

It is also up to the Minister of Education, the proposal to the Government of the Spanish position in the international field and the European Union in the matters of the department.

2. The powers conferred on this royal decree shall be understood in coordination and without prejudice to those corresponding to other ministerial departments.

3. The Ministry of Education, under the top management of the head of the department, develops the functions that legally correspond to him through the following upper and managerial bodies:

(a) The Secretary of State for Education and Vocational Training.

b) The General Secretariat of Universities.

c) The Assistant Secretary for Education.

4. As an organ of political and technical support to the Minister there is a Cabinet, with an organic level of Directorate General with the structure established in article 18.3 of Royal Decree 438/2008, of April 14, for which the organic structure is approved basic of the ministerial departments.

5. The Directorate-General for International Relations, which shall exercise the functions provided for in Article 10, directly depends on the Minister.

6. The following are the bodies responsible for advising and/or participating in the Ministry of

:

(a) The School Board of the State, which relates to the Ministry through the Secretariat of State for Education and Vocational Training, and which shall exercise the functions conferred upon it by Article 32 of Organic Law 8/1985, July 3, Law on Education, and Royal Decree 694/2007 of June 1, which regulates the School Council of the State.

b) The Council of Universities, which is related to the Ministry through the General Secretariat of Universities, and which will exercise the functions attributed to it in Article 28 of the Organic Law 6/2001, of 21 December, Universities.

7. They are consultative bodies of the State, attached to the Ministry of Education, through the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, the following:

(a) The Superior Council of Art Teachings, which will exercise the functions attributed to it by the Organic Law 2/2006, of 3 May, of Education, and Royal Decree 365/2007, of 16 March, which regulates the Higher Council of Teachings Artistic.

b) The State Observatory of School Coexistence, which will perform the functions attributed to it by Royal Decree 275/2007, of 23 February, which creates the State Observatory of School Coexistence.

8. It is up to the Minister of Education to chair the following collegiate bodies:

a) The Higher Council of Artistic Teachings.

b) The State Observatory of School Coexistence.

(c) The General Council of Vocational Training, in accordance with the terms of Royal Decree 1684/1997 of 7 November 1997, which approves its rules of operation.

d) The Council of Universities.

e) The Committee for the Definition of the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education.

f) The Sectoral Conferences in the areas of competence of the department and, in particular, the Sectoral Conference of Education and the General Conference of University Policy.

It is also the responsibility of the Minister of Education for the presidency of all bodies to be attributed to him by the current regulations.

9. It is administratively related to the Ministry of Education and the Institute of Spain and the Royal Academies integrated in it.

Article 2. Secretary of State for Education and Vocational Training.

1. The Secretary of State for Education and Vocational Training shall exercise, in respect of the units dependent on it, the powers provided for in Article 14 of Law 6/1997 of 14 April of the Organization and the Functioning of the Administration State General.

Also, it is up to you to perform the following functions:

(a) The top management of the competencies that correspond to the department in the field of education and vocational training.

(b) The orientation and impetus of international relations in the field of vocational education and training, as well as the follow-up of the actions of the European Union in this field, all without prejudice to the functions of address and coordination corresponding to the Directorate General for International Relations.

c) The management, evaluation and innovation of the teachings referred to in Law 2/2006, of 3 May, Organic Education, as well as the fulfilment of the obligations of the public authorities in matters of education, implementation of vocational qualification and educational innovation programmes and the promotion of equal opportunities in access to education.

(d) the programming and management of education in the field of territorial competence of the Ministry of Education, the development and dissemination of educational guidance derived from existing legislation in the field of education; (a) special arrangements, the drawing up of the rules on state competence relating to educational establishments, as well as the promotion of vocational training and the basic academic management of their teaching.

e) The coordination between higher education, artistic and sports training and university teaching.

f) Promoting equality policies, non-discrimination and universal accessibility in the field of their competencies.

g) The impetus and coordination of relations with the Autonomous Communities and local authorities in the field of education.

(h) The functions provided for in the current legislation corresponding to the State's high inspection.

i) The direction of the policy of teaching staff and the elaboration of the foundations of the legal regime of the teaching public function.

j) The elaboration of proposals for general provisions in the areas of their competence, as well as the relations and consultations with the autonomous communities and the legal operators concerned during their processing.

2. The following management bodies are dependent on the Secretary of State for Education and Vocational Training:

a) The Directorate-General for Territorial Evaluation and Cooperation.

b) The Directorate-General for Vocational Training.

3. As a body of immediate assistance to the Secretary of State, there is a Cabinet, with an organic level of Subdirección General, with the structure set out in Article 18.3 of Royal Decree 438/2008 of 14 April, approving the organic structure of the ministerial departments.

Article 3. Directorate-General for Evaluation and Territorial Cooperation.

1. It is for the Directorate-General for Evaluation and Territorial Cooperation to perform the following tasks:

(a) The promotion and promotion of the relations of coordination and cooperation with the Autonomous Communities and local corporations, in the field of education, and the promotion of the exchange of information between the different Educational administrations, as well as the planning, management and monitoring of cooperation programmes and agreements with the autonomous communities.

(b) Assistance and support to the Sectoral Education Conference and other bodies of cooperation between the State and the Autonomous Communities in the areas of competence of the Secretariat of State.

(c) The monitoring of the provisions and acts of the Autonomous Communities in the field of education and the adoption or proposal of measures arising from the exercise of the State's high inspection tasks in the field of education.

d) The exercise of the educational inspection function in the field of the department's competencies.

e) Coordination and support for the peripheral units of the Department in Ceuta and Melilla, the programming and management of teaching, the functioning of the teaching centres and the coordination of personnel policy teacher in the field of territorial competence of the Ministry of Education.

(f) The promotion of standards for teaching centres, the development of the basic legal system of foreign centres teaching teaching in Spain, in the field of their competences, as well as the management of the register state of teaching centres and the creation of private teaching centres abroad.

g) Basic academic management of Child Education, Primary Education, Compulsory Secondary Education and Baccalaureate and the promotion of the rules on access systems and procedures for admission to the university, in coordination with the General Secretariat of Universities.

h) The basic academic ordination of special regime teachings and the development and dissemination of educational guidance derived from the legislation in force in these teachings, and the adaptation of artistic teachings higher than the European Higher Education Area.

i) The elaboration of the basic regulations in the field of educational concerts, the establishment of guidelines and the minimum modules of the concerted education.

j) Support and innovation programmes aimed at the compensation of inequalities, educational inclusion, attention to disadvantaged sectors in the field of education or care for other areas of social interest.

k) The establishment of guidelines for the issuance of official Spanish titles and the management of the Central Register of non-university titles and the registration of academic titles and non-university professionals.

(l) The approval of the equivalences of scales of qualifications of foreign degrees and studies, in the field of their competences and the approval and validation of these in the field of their competences.

m) The design, planning and direction of the scholarship policy and study aids aimed at students who are taught in the Organic Law 2/2006, of May 3, of Education.

n) The administrative and economic-financial management of textbooks programmes as well as other specific aid for non-university teaching not subject to the general system, which have as their object regulated teachings in The Organic Law 2/2006, of 3 May, of Education (LOE). Monitoring, monitoring and evaluation of the fulfilment of the obligations by the beneficiaries of the obligations.

o) Programming and management of actions and plans to promote equal opportunities in access to education, territorial cooperation programmes with students, as well as the call, award and delivery of national awards for the study.

p) The coordination of the policies of general evaluation of the educational system and the implementation, in collaboration with the corresponding agencies of the educational administrations, of the general assessments of the diagnosis.

(q) Coordination of the participation of the Spanish State in international evaluations; participation in the elaboration of international indicators of education, as well as the follow-up of the actions of the European Union in this field, without prejudice to the powers of the Secretariat in statistical matters.

r) The elaboration of the State System of Education Indicators, and the carrying out of research and evaluation studies of the educational system and the dissemination of information that offer both actions.

2. The following units with an organic level of general sub-direction depend on the Directorate-General for Evaluation and Territorial Cooperation:

(a) The Subdirectorate-General for Territorial Cooperation, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraphs (a), (b), (e) and (f) of paragraph 1.

(b) The Subdirectorate-General for Academic Management, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraphs (g), (h), (k) and (l) of paragraph 1.

(c) The Subdirectorate-General of Inspection, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraphs (c) and (d) of paragraph 1.

(d) General Subdirectorate of Alumni, Participation and Equality, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraphs (i), (j), (m), (n) and (o) of paragraph 1.

(e) The Institute of Evaluation, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraph 1 (p), (q) and (r).

Article 4. Directorate-General for Vocational Training.

1. It is for the Directorate-General for Vocational Training to perform the following tasks:

(a) The basic academic management of vocational training courses in the education system and the establishment of vocational training qualifications.

b) The development of the foundations of the legal system of the teaching public function and the coordination of the policy of the teaching staff.

c) The establishment of guidelines for the issuance of official Spanish vocational training certificates.

(d) The approval of the equivalence of qualification scales of foreign qualifications and studies of vocational training, as well as the resolution of convalidations and equivalences between studies of vocational training of the system Spanish education.

e) The elaboration of the training offer applicable to the territory of management of the department in the field of vocational training and initial vocational qualification programmes.

(f) Information, advice and design of strategies in the field of vocational guidance and training, and the development and implementation of plans for the improvement and promotion of vocational training, as well as measures to promote policies for equality, non-discrimination and universal accessibility.

g) The orientation and impetus of international relations in the field of vocational training and guidance, participation and collaboration in these matters at European level, as well as the management of the support of the Social Fund European, without prejudice to the functions of management and coordination corresponding to the Directorate-General for International Relations.

(h) The management of adult education and the development of the training offer applicable to the department's management territory in this field.

i) The design and development of measures that guide learning throughout life, both through regulated and non-regulated teaching activities.

j) The coordination and organization of Distance Education, as well as the development of teaching materials for this education.

k) The elaboration and implementation of plans for the improvement and promotion of adult education, as well as measures that promote equality policies, non-discrimination and universal accessibility.

l) Participation and collaboration in European and Ibero-American adult education programmes, without prejudice to the functions of management and coordination corresponding to the Directorate-General for Relations International.

m) The development and dissemination of curriculum materials and other supporting documents for teachers, the design of models for the training of teaching staff and the design and implementation of specific programmes, in collaboration with Autonomous Communities, intended for the scientific and didactic updating of teachers.

n) The development and promotion of research, innovations, studies and reports on education and the realization and editing of publications and materials on education, according to the department's editorial program.

o) The elaboration and coordination of actions and regulations for the adoption and development of the Spanish Qualifications Framework, as well as the promotion of actions and regulations for the adoption and development of the Spanish Framework of Qualifications for Higher Education, in coordination with the General Secretariat of Universities.

p) The development and dissemination of materials in digital and audiovisual support in all areas of knowledge, in order to make information and communication technologies an ordinary instrument of work in the classroom for teachers of the various educational stages.

q) The implementation of specific training programmes, in collaboration with the Autonomous Communities, in the field of application in the Information and Communication Technologies classroom.

r) The maintenance of the Department's Educational Resource Portal and the creation of social networks to facilitate the exchange of experiences and resources among teachers.

s) The updated development and maintenance of the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications and the corresponding modular catalogue of vocational training.

t) The development of the necessary support instruments for the assessment and accreditation of professional skills acquired through work experience and non-formal training pathways.

2. The following units with an organic level of general sub-direction depend on the Directorate-General for Vocational Training:

(a) The General Secretariat for Guidance and Vocational Training, which shall carry out the tasks assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) (f) and (g) of paragraph 1.

(b) The General Underdirection of Lifelong Learning that shall exercise the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraphs (h), (i), (j), (k) and (l) of paragraph 1.

(c) The Institute for Teacher Training, Research and Educational Innovation to perform the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraphs (m), (n) and (o) of paragraph 1.

(d) The Institute of Educational Technologies which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraphs (p), (q) and (r) of paragraph 1.

(e) The National Qualifications Institute, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraph 1 (s) and (t).

Article 5. General Secretariat of Universities.

1. The General Secretariat of Universities shall exercise, in respect of the units dependent on it, the powers provided for in Article 16 of Law 6/1997 of 14 April of the Organization and the Functioning of the General Administration of the State.

Also, it is up to you to perform the following functions:

(a) The design, planning, coordination, support and supervision of activities related to the management, programming and management of the State General Administration in the field of higher education, as well as the ordering of access tests.

(b) The orientation and impetus of international relations in the field of university higher education, as well as the follow-up of the actions of the European Union in this field, all without prejudice to the functions of address and coordination corresponding to the Directorate General for International Relations.

c) The development of the European Higher Education Area and participation in the definition of the Ibero-American Knowledge Space.

d) The coordination of training and mobility programmes and actions to be developed in the different units of the General Secretariat.

e) The development of university policy, in coordination with the Council of Universities.

f) The impetus and coordination of relations with the Autonomous Communities in university matters, through the General Conference of University Policy.

g) The preparation and coordination of the standards of development in its field of competence of the Organic Law 4/2007, of 12 April, amending the Organic Law 6/2001, of 21 December, of Universities.

h) The planning, coordination and evaluation of the lines of action and programmes of the 2015 University Strategy, except in the areas of R & D + i where they will be carried out in collaboration with the Ministry of Science and Innovation.

i) The promotion of equality policies, non-discrimination and universal accessibility in the field of their competencies.

j) The promotion and promotion of efficient management of universities in the framework of a fair, sustainable and shared funding system with the autonomous communities.

k) The promotion of the basic regulation that favors the implementation of the measures of prevention of occupational risks in the universities that allows the improvement of the level of quality.

l) The promotion of collaboration in the field of scientific research, development and technological innovation of universities with other public and private research and innovation agencies.

m) The relationship with the professional associations or their general councils, where appropriate in accordance with the legislation in force in this field.

n) The elaboration of the proposals for general provisions in the areas of their competence, as well as the relations and consultations with the autonomous communities and the legal operators concerned during their processing.

o) The development of programs aimed at the management and development of university infrastructures and support for teaching, which will facilitate greater efficiency and effectiveness.

p) The promotion and support for the creation of technological base companies arising from research projects of universities and the introduction of stimuli for the empowerment of entrepreneurial culture and the management of processes of academic incubation, in coordination with the Ministry of Science and Innovation's General Secretariat of Innovation.

(q) Collaboration in the coordination of inter-ministerial relations that are necessary to ensure a coherent and integrated approach to issues related to education, research and transfer of knowledge in the university field.

(r) to resolve the remedies against the decisions of the management bodies which are directly dependent on it and whose acts do not exhaust the administrative route, as well as the resources of the public against the resolutions of the National Evaluation Committee of the Investigative Activity.

2. The following management bodies depend on the General Secretariat of Universities:

a) The General Directorate of University Policy.

b) The General Directorate of Training and University Orientation.

3. The following bodies are directly dependent on the General Secretariat of Universities with a general sub-directorate:

(a) The General Sub-Directorate of University Analysis, Studies and Foresight, which will perform the following functions:

1. The elaboration of the memories and statistics derived from the cooperation within the framework of the Council of Universities and the General Conference of University Policy referred to in the Regulations of the two bodies, without prejudice to the powers of the Secretariat.

2. º The support and assistance to the University Observatory of Grants and Aid to the Study, provided for in the second twenty-second provision of the Organic Law 4/2007, of 12 April, amending the Law of the Organic Law 6/2001, of 21 December, from Universities.

3. The elaboration and promotion of studies and reports on the teaching, research and knowledge transfer activities of universities.

(b) The Deputy Director-General for Economic Coordination, who shall be responsible for coordinating the activities of the General Secretariat of Universities and their management and management of the budgets of the General Secretariat and public bodies attached, without prejudice to the powers of the Secretariat.

4. It is attached to the Ministry of Education through the General Secretariat of Universities, the Autonomous Body of European Educational Programmes and the National Agency for Evaluation and Accreditation.

5. They are administratively related to the Ministry of Education through the General Secretariat of Universities:

a) The National University of Distance Education.

b) The International University "Menendez Pelayo".

6. The College of Spain in Paris depends on the Ministry of Education through the General Secretariat of Universities.

Article 6. Directorate General for University Policy.

1. It is up to the Directorate-General for University Policy to perform the following functions:

(a) The design and planning of university teaching in relation to the competencies that correspond to the General Administration of the State.

b) The preparation of the competition rules of the General Administration of the State regarding university education and access to and admission to the university.

(c) The development of the European Higher Education Area and the promotion of the actions necessary for the adaptation of university degrees.

d) The impetus of the actions and regulations that correspond to the Department in relation to the Spanish Framework of Higher Education Qualifications.

e) The establishment of the conditions and requirements for the verification and accreditation of official Spanish university degrees, degree, master and doctorate and for their registration in the Register of Universities, Centers and Titles This is the additional 20th of the Organic Law 4/2007 of 12 April, amending the Organic Law 6/2001, of 21 December, of Universities, as well as the processing and promotion of the corresponding procedures of verification and accreditation. It is also up to the promotion of the normative development of doctoral schools.

f) The establishment of the guidelines for the issuance of official titles, their corresponding registration in the National Register of Titles, and the management and custody of the latter.

g) Those corresponding to the General Administration of the State on the declaration of equivalence, recognition and approval of other Spanish titles in respect of officers, as well as recognition for civil purposes of the titles of the universities of the Catholic Church in accordance with the rules of development of the Agreements between the Spanish State and the Holy See.

(h) the recognition of foreign qualifications and qualifications of higher education as well as those corresponding to the department in relation to the application of the own rules of recognition of diplomas for the purposes of exercise of the right of establishment and freedom to provide services.

i) Those that correspond to the Department regarding the training of specialists in health sciences, the relations with the health institutions, the granting and the issuance of Spanish titles of specialties in science of health, as well as the recognition of foreign titles of the same specialties.

j) Programming, coordination and management of aid programmes for the training, mobility, improvement and updating of post-graduate and post-doctoral knowledge.

k) The programming, coordination and management of the loan-rent programs aimed at university students to finance the cost of the studies.

l) Programming, coordination and management of aid programmes for the training, mobility, improvement and updating of knowledge of teaching staff and university researchers and administration staff; and university services.

m) Those that correspond to the General Administration of the State in respect of the university faculty system and its accreditation, as well as the promotion and promotion of the quality of the teaching activity.

n) The performance of evaluation, analysis and study activities as well as those related to innovation and improvement of the quality of university education, and in particular the formulation of the necessary criteria in this field. scope.

or) The competencies that correspond to the General Administration of the State in terms of the remuneration of university faculty.

p) Assistance and support to the General Conference of University Policy and other bodies of cooperation between the State and the Autonomous Communities in the areas of competence of the General Secretariat.

q) Assistance and support to the Council of Universities.

2. They depend on the General Directorate of University Policy for the following general sub-directions:

(a) Subdirectorate-General for Academic Coordination and Legal Regime, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (e) and (g) of paragraph 1.

(b) General Subdirectorate of Qualifications and Recognition of Qualifications, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraphs (d), (f), (h) and (i) of paragraph 1.

(c) General Subdirectorate of the Training and Mobility of the Teacher, who shall exercise the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraphs (j), (k) and (l) of paragraph 1.

(d) General Subdirection of the Teacher and Teaching Innovation, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraphs (m), (n) and (o) of paragraph 1.

(e) General Secretariat for University Coordination, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraphs (p) and (q) of paragraph 1.

3. It relates administratively to the Ministry of Education, through the Directorate General of University Policy, the National Evaluation Commission of the Research Activity, regulated in Royal Decree 1086/1989, of 28 August, on remuneration of university teachers.

Article 7. Directorate-General for Training and University Orientation.

1. It is for the Directorate-General for Training and University Orientation to perform the following tasks:

(a) The implementation of a comprehensive care system for students and university graduates within the framework of the European Higher Education Area, which responds to their needs and demands in the new educational context and social.

b) The promotion of specialized care programs for prospective students, university students, and graduates.

c) The coordination between university teaching and higher education, artistic and sports training.

d) The drive of an inclusive educational environment for attention to diversity and attention to their specific needs.

e) The development of information, training and guidance programmes adapted to the different profiles to facilitate the transition from pre-university stages to the university environment, the choice of university studies, learning process and academic performance and reducing educational failure and dropout rate.

f) The development of information, training and guidance programmes for students in their final phase of studies and graduates to facilitate the transition to the national and international labour market.

g) The promotion of interaction with the Tutorial Action programmes and the different services for students and graduates of the Universities to carry out the information, training and guidance actions university, both in the educational process and in the process of professional incorporation of students and graduates.

(h) The promotion of action programmes for the participation of students in university life at both political, associative and academic, cultural, social, voluntary or any other activities that contribute value to their comprehensive training.

i) The promotion of specific care programmes for university graduates with the aim of facilitating loyalty processes, professional career and access to continuing training.

j) The drive to open and connect the University and the Society through comprehensive care programs to students and graduates.

k) The programming, management and evaluation of the support programme for the activities of student organisations, including communication, mobility and participation in international activities.

l) The design, planning and direction of scholarship policy and study aids to students who are teaching university teaching.

m) The administrative and economic-financial management of the general system of grants and aid to the study, as well as other specific aid not subject to this general system, under the direction of the Secretary of State for Education and Vocational training or the General Secretariat of Universities, depending on whether they have the object of teaching in Organic Law 2/2006, of 3 May, of Education, or in Organic Law 6/2001, of 21 December, of Universities.

n) The promotion of student mobility within the European Union, through the design, planning and, where appropriate, management, of national action programmes or participation in the design and planning of European action programmes.

o) The promotion of the coordination of scholarship programs and aid to the study promoted by the different Public Administrations and by private entities and institutions.

p) Monitoring, monitoring and evaluation of the fulfilment of obligations by beneficiaries of grants and public support.

q) The programming and management of actions to promote the excellence of students in transition to the university stages, as well as the call, award and delivery of the national awards to the study at the levels university.

2. The following sub-directorates-general depend on the Directorate-General Training and University Orientation:

(a) General Assistant to the Student, Guidance and Professional Insertion, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Directorate-General in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j) and (k) of paragraph 1.

(b) Subdirectorate-General for Scholarships, Aid and Student Mobility, which shall exercise the functions conferred on the Directorate-General in paragraphs 1 (l), (m), (n), (o), (p) and (q) of paragraph 1.

Article 8. Deputy Secretary for Education.

1. The Deputy Secretary of Education, holds the ordinary representation of the Ministry and the management of its common services, as well as the exercise of the powers referred to in Article 15 of Law 6/1997 of 14 April of the Organization and Operation of the General Administration of the State, and in general, the exercise of the following functions:

a) Support and technical advice to the Minister in the elaboration and approval of the department's action plans.

b) The elaboration and coordination of the Department's general plans for budgetary, personal and remuneration policy, assets, buildings and infrastructure, economic programming and control budget.

c) The impetus, coordination, support and supervision of the department's general provisions-making activities, as well as the efforts related to its publication.

(d) The direction, impetus and management of the functions related to the handling of the affairs of the Council of Ministers, the Government's Delegation Committees and the General Commission of Secretaries of State and Undersecretaries.

e) The promotion and coordination of the relations of the Ministry of Education, with the courts, with the other departments of the General Administration of the State, with the Delegates and Subdelegates of the Government and with the other peripheral organs.

(f) The direction of the inspector's function on the departments, agencies and agencies dependent on the department, in particular as regards the staff, procedure, economic regime, facilities and facilities of the departments, without prejudice to the functions corresponding to the educational inspection.

g) Management of administrative services, rationalisation and computerisation, statistics, administrative information and documentation and the dispatch of cases not attributed to competition from other higher bodies of the department.

h) The coordination of the department's actions in the field of gender equality.

i) The articulation of the department's administrative relations with the Institute of Spain and the Royal Academies integrated in this.

2. In particular, the Secretariat shall perform the following tasks:

(a) The study and economic report of acts and provisions with economic-financial impact on expenditure and revenue budgets.

b) The determination of the structure of the programmes and sub-programmes in which the activity of the department is carried out, the preparation and processing of the annual preliminary draft budget, the monitoring of the implementation of the appropriations budget and the processing of its amendments.

c) Monitoring the degree of achievement of objectives with respect to programmes and actions to be determined in the annual State Budget Law.

d) The analysis and coordination of how many financial resources the department has allocated, as well as the coordination and monitoring of the implementation of European or international funds for programmes or programmes projects of the department and its agencies, without prejudice to the functions assigned to other bodies and bodies of the department.

e) The elaboration of the personnel policy assigned to the department and, in particular, its planning and management, by means of the forecast of needs; the proposal of offer of public employment, selection and provision; the proposal of changes in the relationship of jobs; the provision and monitoring of staff expenditure, as well as all aspects arising from the application of the rules in this respect, the provision of staff and remuneration and payroll.

f) The management of the teaching staff of the department and the procedures for the mobility of teaching staff at the national level, in a coordinated way with the other educational administrations, without prejudice to the functions of the Secretary of State for Education and Vocational Training.

g) Training of staff, with the exception of teachers, management of social action and prevention of occupational risks.

h) The relationship with trade union organizations and other representative professional associations.

i) The functions of enabling and paying the ministry, except in cases where the specific procedures of actions of a particular unit of the ministry require placing in them a payment box of its own. It shall also exercise the powers relating to the central unit of the department.

j) The internal system of the department's central services, the equipment of the administrative units, the preservation, intrend, operation and safety of buildings, supplies, training and updating the inventory of their movable property, as well as the supervision of the Ministry's works projects, where appropriate.

k) Assistance and support to the procurement table.

(l) the property management of the buildings which the department uses for any title, except that it is directly attributed to another body or body, as well as the preparation of the reports and technical studies on those or on any other building when required.

m) The processing of administrative procedures for the implementation of infrastructure, in particular for the creation or adequacy and the procurement of equipment, their surveillance and inspection when they are the subject of financing partial or total of the appropriations of the department, as well as the accreditation of the fulfilment of the requirements for the payment of the financial contributions granted, unless it is directly attributed to another body or body.

n) The organization, management and management of the department's central archive, the coordination of the remaining archives and the preservation of the documentary heritage.

o) The elaboration and implementation of the department's IT plans in collaboration with its different units; the design, programming, implementation and maintenance of IT applications; the management of the information and communications and technical assistance to users of the computer resources used, as well as cooperation with the autonomous communities in these areas.

p) The elaboration of studies and technical reports on gender equality policies, as well as the advice and technical support to the department's units so that, in their field of action, they adopt measures that ensure full equality between women and men.

(q) Cooperation and coordination with other Public Administrations and Entities in the development of programs and actions for the promotion and dynamisation of full equality between women and men, in the field of Department competencies.

3. It is up to the Assistant Secretary for Education, the Technical General Secretariat, to exercise the powers provided for in Article 17 of Law 6/1997, of 14 April, of the Organization and the Functioning of the General Administration of the State, as well as the provided for in Article 9.

4. The following units with organic level of general subdirection are also dependent on the Subsecretariat:

(a) The Budget Office, which shall exercise the tasks assigned to the Secretariat in paragraph 2 (a), (b), (c) and (d), in addition to those corresponding to its specific rules.

(b) The General Staff Subdirectorate, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Subsecretariat in paragraphs (e), (f), (g) and (h) of paragraph 2.

(c) The General Staff, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Subsecretariat in paragraphs (i), (j), (k), (l), (m) and (n) of paragraph 2.

(d) The General Subdirectorate of Information and Communications Technologies, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Subsecretariat in paragraph 2 (o).

5. The following units with organic level of general sub-direction are also dependent on the Subsecretariat:

(a) The Technical Cabinet, as an organ of support and immediate assistance to the Assistant Secretary.

(b) the Department's General Inspection of Services, which is responsible for the implementation of the departmental inspection programmes and the assessment of the functioning of the dependent centres and agencies; or assigned to the department, as well as the other functions assigned in the current regulations.

6. They are attached to the Education Secretariat, with the functions assigned to them by the provisions in force, and without prejudice to their dependence on the Ministries of Justice and the Economy and Finance, respectively, the following bodies General sub-direction organic:

a) State advocacy.

b) The Delegated Intervention of the General Intervention of the State Administration.

Article 9. Technical General Secretariat.

1. The Technical General Secretariat is the governing body of the Department which exercises the powers provided for in Article 17 of Law 6/1997 of 14 April of the Organization and the Functioning of the General Administration of the State, and in particular the The following functions:

a) The elaboration and proposal of the department's legislative program and the coordination and momentum of its implementation once approved.

(b) The study, report and, where appropriate, the elaboration of the draft general provisions that correspond to or propose to the Department, as well as its administrative handling, with the exception of the process of hearing the interested parties provided for in Article 24.1 of Law 50/1997 of 27 November of the Government.

(c) The preparation, report and assistance to the department's higher bodies in relation to the matters to be submitted to the Council of Ministers, the Government Delegated Commissions and the General Secretariat Commission of State and Undersecretaries.

d) Actions related to the publication of the Department's provisions and administrative acts in the "Official State Gazette" and in the "Ministry of Education Bulletin".

e) The actions resulting from the involvement of the department in the Committee on the Monitoring of Provisions and Acts of the Autonomous Communities and the coordination of the actions of the various management bodies of the department for the transfer of functions and services to the autonomous communities.

(f) The registration of the agreements signed by the department with other public administrations, companies and bodies, both public and private, that are excluded from the scope of Law 30/2007, of Contracts Public Sector.

g) The processing and proposal for the resolution of administrative appeals against the provisions and acts of the department and its dependent bodies, of the procedures for the review of trade, of complaints of liability and of claims prior to the civil court.

h) The processing and proposal for the resolution of the procedures for exercising the right of petition.

(i) Relations with the courts and courts of justice, for the purposes of referral of the files and documents they request, the receipt of their notifications and the preparation of the execution of their judgments, without prejudice As provided for in the current regulations on representation and defense in the State and other public institutions.

Likewise, it will be up to you to ask the General Counsel of the State-Directorate of the State Legal Service to exercise legal action before any courts, at the request of the executive bodies. competent by reason of the matter.

j) The planning, promotion and coordination of department statistics, as well as the formulation of the National Statistical Plan and the annual programs that develop it in the department's field.

k) the compilation of statistics resulting from cooperation with the other educational administrations in the framework of the sectoral conferences and, where appropriate, any other that is of interest to the department, as well as the calculation of the statistical indicators for reports and departmental studies that proceed.

l) Institutional coordination and relations in statistical matters with the National Statistics Institute, with other ministerial departments, with other public administrations and with international organizations.

m) The proposal of the department's editorial program, as well as the realization and editing of compilations, publications, and other department materials.

n) The organization and address of the department library.

o) Administrative information and attention to the citizen.

p) The management of the competencies of the Ministry of Education in respect of foundations whose protectorate corresponds to this department.

2. The following units with an organic level of general sub-direction depend on the Technical General Secretariat:

(a) The Technical Vice-Secretary-General, who shall perform the tasks assigned to the Technical Secretariat in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of paragraph 1.

(b) The Subdirectorate-General for Resources, which shall carry out the tasks assigned to the Technical Secretariat in paragraph 1 (g), (h) and (i).

(c) The Bureau of Statistics, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Technical General Secretariat in paragraphs (j), (k) and (l) of paragraph 1.

(d) The General Secretariat for Documentation and Publications, which shall exercise the functions assigned to the Technical Secretariat in paragraphs (m) and (n) of paragraph 1.

3. It also depends on the Technical General Secretariat, with the level to be determined in the relation of jobs, the Division of Foundations and Attention to the Citizen, which will exercise the functions attributed to the Technical Secretariat in the paragraphs (o) and (p) of paragraph 1.

Article 10. Directorate General for International Relations.

1. It is for the Directorate-General for International Relations to perform the following tasks:

(a) Relations with foreign and international bodies and authorities in matters falling within the competence of the department, without prejudice to the powers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.

b) The direction, coordination and follow-up of the actions of the Department related to the European Union in the areas of competence of the department, and in particular assistance to the Minister in the preparation of the meetings of the Council of the European Union, without prejudice to the powers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.

c) The functions related to the services of the department abroad, framed in the Consejeries, Attachaduras and in the Directorates of the Ministry's existing programs in different countries, as well as the management of the Spanish state-owned teaching centers abroad.

(d) The management, coordination and, where appropriate, the management of the international cooperation programmes, of a bilateral or multilateral nature in the areas of competence of the department.

e) The promotion of the internationalization and competitiveness of the Spanish university system, in coordination with the General Secretariat of Universities.

(f) The development of the European Higher Education Area, participation in the definition of the Ibero-American Knowledge Space, and the coordination of activities and reports of the Spanish coordination group on the process of Bologna (BFUG), as well as the communication to the universities of their activities.

g) The coordination of the activities of universities in all university disciplines in the field of research, knowledge generation and the development of their interface with higher education, particularly concerned with the implementation of doctoral schools, in collaboration with the Ministry of Science and Innovation.

h) Planning, implementation, dynamisation and management in the areas of the department of programmes for the management, modernisation and development of management structures and university infrastructures; The International Campus of Excellence program, which favors the institutional consolidation of universities, in coordination with the Ministry of Science and Innovation.

i) The promotion of the participation of Spanish universities in the European Programs related to the modernization of universities, their institutional strengthening and strategies to promote excellence.

j) The promotion of university social responsibility, by promoting appropriate instruments to facilitate the responsible return of knowledge to society and the promotion of development cooperation policies.

(k) Support to the General Secretariat for Innovation in its tasks related to the transfer of knowledge and technology from universities and support for university entrepreneurial culture, in particular from the network of Research Results Transfer (OTRI) offices of the Spanish universities.

l) The promotion and support of the participation of universities in the creation of technological base companies arising from research projects and the coordination of the network of scientific and technological parks Coordinated form with the General Secretariat of Innovation.

2. The following units with an organic level of general sub-direction depend on the General Directorate of International Relations:

(a) The Subdirectorate-General for International Cooperation, which shall exercise the functions assigned to this Directorate-General in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of paragraph 1.

(b) Subdirectorate-General for Modernisation and Promotion of University Research, which shall exercise the functions conferred on the Directorate-General in paragraphs (g), (h), (i), (j), (k) and (l) of paragraph 1.

Additional disposition first. Removal of organs.

1. The following organs are deleted with the General Address range:

a) The General Direction of Modernization and University Internationalization.

b) The General Secretariat of the University Coordination Council.

2. The following units with organic level of general sub-direction are deleted:

a) Subdirection General of Programs and Centers.

b) Educational Research and Documentation Center.

c) Subdirectorate General of Education Grants and Promotion.

d) Higher Institute of Network Training and Resources for the Teacher.

e) General Subdirection of Titles and Relations with Health Institutions.

f) General Subdirection of Scholarships and Aid to Study and Mobility for Professional Perfection.

g) General Subdirection of Analysis, Studies, and Profession.

h) General Subdirection of Institutional Relations.

i) General Manager of Heritage and Services Management.

j) General Information and Publications Subdirection.

3. The Division of the Protectorate of Foundations is also abolished.

Additional provision second. No increase in expenditure.

The application of this royal decree, including the creation and modification of the units without organic level of general subdirection provided for in their articles, will be done without increase of the operating costs of the respective organs managers and will not increase public expenditure.

Additional provision third. Peripheral organization of the department.

The peripheral units of the Ministry of Education in the cities of Ceuta and Melilla depend on the department through the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training.

Additional provision fourth. Functional areas of high education inspection.

The functional areas of high education inspection integrated in the respective Government Delegations and governed by Royal Decree 1330/1997, of August 1, and other rules that apply to them, are functionally dependent. of the Ministry of Education through the Directorate-General for Territorial Evaluation and Cooperation.

Additional provision fifth. Supply of the heads of the management bodies.

In cases of vacancy, absence or illness, the following regime of higher organs and managers of the department is established:

(a) The holders of the organs referred to in Article 1.3 shall replace each other, following the order in which they are mentioned, unless the Minister establishes another order of replacement.

b) The Directors-General and the Technical Secretary-General of the department will be replaced by the Deputy Directors General of their dependency, following the order in which they appear mentioned for the first time in this royal decree, unless the hierarchical superior common to all of them expressly establishes another replacement order.

Additional provision sixth. Regulatory references to deleted organs.

The references that are made in the legal order to the organs that are deleted by this royal decree will be understood to be those that are created, replaced or assume their competences in this same norm.

Additional provision seventh. Coordination between the Ministries of Science and Innovation and Education.

1. As universities play a key role in R & D & I, the Ministries of Science and Innovation and Education will take the necessary steps to coordinate the actions resulting from the exercise of their competences in relation to the university scope.

To this end, within three months of the entry into force of this royal decree, a Coordination Commission will be set up between the two ministerial departments, whose composition and functions will be regulated by royal decree, which will be entrusted, inter alia, with the following functions:

(a) Identify R & D + i programmes which are directed to or dependent universities or centres, and programmes of actions of the Ministry of Education which may affect the competences of the Ministry of Education Science and Innovation.

b) Analyze the development of joint actions.

c) Know the general planning of activities of the two ministerial departments.

d) To know the actions of both Ministries in implementation of the National R & D + I Plan that can be considered included in some of the common lines of action.

e) Coordinate the development actions of the University Strategy 2015, particularly those related to the promotion of research and the transfer of knowledge.

2. The Ministry of Science and Innovation will be present at both the Council of Universities and the General Conference of University Policy. For these purposes, the head of the department shall appoint a representative with a minimum rank of director-general for each of these bodies.

3. The Ministry of Science and Innovation will participate in the Ministry of Education in the preparation and preparation of the preliminary draft Law on Science and Technology.

Additional disposition octave. University Observatory of grants and study aids.

The Ministry of Education will, within six months, promote the creation of a University Observatory for scholarships and aid to the study, subject to the agreement of the General Conference of University Policy and the Council of Universities, in accordance with the provisions of the second twenty-second provision of the Organic Law 4/2007, of 12 April, amending the Organic Law 6/2001, of 21 December, of Universities.

Additional provision ninth. Subrogation in the obligations of the College of Spain in Paris.

From the moment of its constitution, the " Fondation College d' Espagne. Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris " shall be subrogated to the rights and obligations of the College of Spain in Paris and, in particular, to the rights and obligations arising from employment and service relations, in accordance with the provisions of its Statute.

First transient disposition. Temporary management of media and services by the Ministry of Science and Innovation.

Until the effective integration of the budgetary appropriations and the material and personal means attached to the functions assigned to the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Innovation continue to provide the necessary assistance to the Ministry of Education in order to maintain the normal functioning of the services and the management of the aid.

Second transient disposition. Units and positions of lower rank to general sub-direction.

1. The units and posts with lower organic level to subdirección general will continue to remain and will be paid from the same budgets, until the corresponding relation of the positions of the Ministry of Education adapted to the organic structure that is approved by this royal decree.

2. The units and posts of work in the organs removed by this royal decree shall be provisionally attached, by means of a resolution of the Deputy Secretary, until the new employment relationship, to the new bodies, is in force. regulated in this royal decree, depending on the attributions they have assigned.

Repeal provision. Regulatory repeal.

1. Royal Decree 1128/2008 of 4 July 2008, for which the basic organic structure of the Ministry of Education, Social Policy and Sport is developed and amended by Royal Decree 438/2008 of 14 April, is hereby repealed. the basic organic structure of the ministerial departments, as well as the Royal Decree 1183/2008, of 11 July, for which the basic organic structure of the Ministry of Science and innovation is developed, in all that they object to the regulated in this royal decree.

2. Likewise, the provisions of equal or lower rank are repealed, contrary to the provisions of this royal decree.

Final disposition first. Amendment of Royal Decree 438/2008 of 14 April approving the basic organic structure of the ministerial departments.

1. Article 7 (1) of Royal Decree 438/2008, of 14 April, approving the basic organic structure of the ministerial departments, is worded as follows:

" 1. The Ministry of Education is structured in the following upper and managerial bodies:

(a) The Secretary of State for Education and Vocational Training, on which the following management bodies depend:

1. The Directorate-General for Evaluation and Territorial Cooperation.

2. The General Directorate of Vocational Training.

b) The General Secretariat of Universities, on which the following management bodies depend:

1. The General Directorate of University Policy, which assumes the functions that correspond to the suppressed General Directorate of Universities, as well as the promotion of university excellence.

2. The General Directorate of Training and University Orientation, which assumes the functions related to comprehensive care for university students in their various stages.

In accordance with the provisions of Article 18.2 of Law 6/1997 of 14 April, of the organization and operation of the General Administration of the State, it will not be necessary for the holder of the General Directorate of Training and University orientation has the status of an official, taking into account the specific characteristics of its functions.

(c) The Assistant Secretary for Education, on which the Technical General Secretariat is responsible.

d) The General Directorate of International Relations, which will depend directly on the department holder.

According to the provisions of article 18.2 of Law 6/1997 of 14 April, of the organization and functioning of the General Administration of the State, the head of the Directorate General of Relations will not be required to International holds the status of an official, taking into account the specific characteristics of his/her duties. "

2. Article 7 (3) of Royal Decree 438/2008 of 14 April, approving the basic organic structure of the ministerial departments, is deleted.

Final disposition second. Powers of development.

The Minister of Education is hereby authorized to take the necessary measures for the development and execution of this royal decree, prior to the implementation of the appropriate legal procedures.

Final disposition third. Budgetary changes.

The Ministry of Economy and Finance will carry out the necessary budgetary changes for the fulfillment of the provisions of this royal decree.

Final disposition fourth. Entry into force.

This royal decree will enter into force on the same day as its publication in the "Official State Gazette".

Given in Madrid, July 3, 2009.

JOHN CARLOS R.

The First Vice President of the Government and Minister of the Presidency,

MARIA TERESA FERNANDEZ DE LA VEGA SANZ