Royal Decree 553/2004 of 17 April, for which the ministerial departments are restructured, dictated by the authorization given to the President of the Government by Article 2.2.j of Law 50/1997 of 27 of November, the Government establishes a new structure of the General Administration of the State, with the aim of developing the political program of the Government, achieving maximum efficiency in its action and the greatest rationality in the functioning of the General Administration of the State.

According to this objective, the aforementioned royal decree establishes that the Ministry of Defense will have, as a higher body, the Secretariat of State of Defense, as well as the other bodies provided for in the legal order, and, specifically, in the legislation on the bases of the military organization.

Royal Decree 562/2004 of 19 April, approving the basic organic structure of the ministerial departments, continues the restructuring begun with the Royal Decree 553/2004 of 17 April, under cover of the Article 10.1 of Law 6/1997, of 14 April, of the Organization and the Functioning of the General Administration of the State, without prejudice to its subsequent development for each department by means of the appropriate royal decrees.

This basic structure of the Ministry of Defense maintains, essentially, the organization and competencies of the higher and managerial organs of the department, and creates, depending directly on the Minister, the Directorate General of Communication of the Defense, a management body that will assume the competences on social relations and communication of the Directorate General of Institutional Relations of the Defense.

According to the conception established in Royal Decree 553/2004, of April 17, the Secretary of State of Defense is assigned, as the top organ of the ministry, the responsibility of supporting the minister in coordination and general control of the department's activities.

On the other hand, it seems appropriate to advance in the organization of the Armed Forces, emphasizing its unique entity and its conception as an integrative set of the forms of action of each of its components.

This is why a joint operational structure based on criteria for coordination and effectiveness and an organisational structure, more simplified, is established to enable the activities to be coordinated and integrated in the most appropriate way. administrative.

It is also addressed with this royal decree the recasting of the scattered regulations that on the basic structure of the Ministry of Defense currently exists, incorporating all the basic organic structure of the department into a Single disposition.

In its virtue, at the initiative of the Minister of Defense, on the proposal of the Minister of Public Administrations and after deliberation of the Council of Ministers at its meeting of June 25, 2004,

D I S P O N G O:

Article 1. General organization of the department.

1. The Ministry of Defense is the department of the General Administration of the State to which it corresponds, within the scope of powers conferred upon it by the legal provisions in force, the preparation and execution of the Government's policy in matters of defence and the management of the Military Administration.

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

3. The Ministry of Defense, under the direction of the head of the department, is structured in:

(a) The Secretary of State of Defense.

b) The Deputy Secretary of Defense.

c) The General Secretariat of Defense Policy.

d) The Armed Forces.

4. It is organically attached to the Ministry of Defense, with direct dependence on the Minister, the National Intelligence Center.

5. The Civil Guard depends on the Minister of Defense in the terms provided for in the Organic Law 6/1980, of July 1, which regulates the basic criteria of national defense and military organization, as amended by the Organic Law 1/1984 of 5 In January, in the Organic Law 2/1986, of March 13, of the Security Forces and Corps, and in Law 42/1999, of 25 November, of the Staff Regulations of the Civil Guard Corps.

6. It is directly up to the Minister of Defence to the Directorate-General for Defence Communication.

7. They are advisory and advisory bodies to the Minister of Defence:

a) The Board of Chiefs of Staff.

b) The Higher Council of the Army of the Earth.

c) The Superior Council of the Navy.

d) The Higher Council of the Air Force.

e) The Joint Chiefs of the Armed Forces ' Common Corps.

8. As an immediate assistance organ to the Minister, there is a Cabinet, with an organic level of general direction, with the structure established by Article 17.2 of Royal Decree 562/2004 of 19 April, approving the basic organic structure of the ministerial departments.

9. The Minister of Defense also has an advisory and immediate assistance from a Technical Cabinet, whose Director will be a general officer, with an organic level of director general.

Article 2. Armed Forces.

1. The Armed Forces, under the Ministry of Defense, are the fundamental element of the defense and constitute a unique entity, which is conceived as an integrative set of the forms of action of each of its components:

a) The General Staff of the Defense.

b) The Army of the Earth, the Navy, and the Air Force.

2. The Armed Forces are organized into two structures: one operative, for their use in the missions assigned to them, and another organic, for the preparation of the force. The organic structure should make it possible to provide the necessary means to form the operational structure that is required at any moment.

3. The operational structure consists of the General Staff of the Defense, composed of:

(a) The Command of Operations, a body through which the Chief of the Defense Staff, under the authority of the Minister of Defense, exercises the planning and conduct of operations.

b) The Joint Chiefs of Defense, the auxiliary command of the Chief of Defense Staff, who supports him in the definition and development of the military strategy and in the rest of his powers.

In the General Staff of Defense, the Armed Forces Intelligence Center is located, a body responsible for facilitating military intelligence to alert situations of military interest, with potential risk of crisis, from outside, and provide the necessary support for operations.

In addition, the General Staff of the Defense Department has the necessary auxiliary, assistance and advisory bodies to support him in the performance of his duties.

4. The organic structure consists of the Army of the Earth, the Navy and the Air Force, and is responsible for guaranteeing at all times the possibility of full or partial allocation of forces to the operational structure. It consists of:

(a) The Headquarters: it is the set of organs that cover the human and material resources necessary to assist the Chief of Staff in the exercise of command over his army.

b) The Force: it is the set of human and material means that are grouped and organized with the main task of preparing for the realization of military operations. In its field, the training and evaluation of the units will be carried out.

c) Support for the Force: it is the set of organs responsible for the management, management, administration and control of human, material and financial resources, assigned to each of the armies, as well as the activities of the the logistical support that enables the life and operation of the units, centres and agencies.

5. The Chief of the Defense Staff, with the rank of secretary of state, exercises, under the authority of the Minister, in addition to the powers and powers granted to him by the legislation in force, the planning and execution of the Military policy operations and the planning and conduct of military operations, in particular, exercise the following functions:

(a) Run the strategic leadership of the military operations, under the direction of the President of the Government and the Minister of Defense.

b) To elaborate, with the advice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the proposal of the Joint Strategic Plan, which will be submitted to the Minister of Defense for approval.

c) Establish the necessary operational structures, from the existing Forces, for the execution of the missions entrusted to it, proposing the creation of the corresponding operational controls.

d) Assign missions to operational controls and, singularised, the Force for their

compliance, setting the corresponding priorities in your case.

e) Coordinate with the military commanders of allied nations or international organizations the planning and execution of military operations and exercises to be developed in the framework of international agreements in matters of defence of which Spain is a party.

f) General guidelines to be issued to the Chief of Staff of the Army, to guide the preparation of their armies, aimed at the operational use of the Armed Forces.

g) To check the degree of readiness of the Armed Forces as responsible, to the Minister of Defense, of the operational effectiveness of the Armed Forces.

h) Elaborate and propose to the Joint Chiefs of Staff the doctrine for joint action.

i) Schedule and conduct the exercises to evaluate the effectiveness of the operational plans and the joint training of the Forces.

(j) Direct control, intelligence, telecommunications and electronic warfare systems, coordinating and integrating, if necessary, the corresponding armies, in order to obtain the necessary interoperability and effectiveness of the set.

k) Coordinate the Spanish participation in the planning system of the military organizations or alliances to which Spain belongs.

6. The military representations in the international organizations depend on the Chief of the Defense Staff.

7. In addition to the Technical Cabinet of a military nature, the Chief of the Defense General Staff has a Cabinet with an organic level of general sub-management, with the structure established in Article 17.3 of Royal Decree 562/2004 of 19 April.

8. The Chief of the Defense General Staff will hold the representation of the department, by delegation of the Minister, in cases where this is entrusted, and the institutional representation of the Armed Forces, in particular, in the organizations international military.

9. The Heads of the Major States of the Army of the Earth, the Navy, and the Air Force, with the rank of undersecretaries, under the authority and direct dependence of the Defense Minister, exercise command of their respective armies and, in addition to the the powers and powers granted to them by the legislation in force, the preparation of the Force and, in particular:

(a) Organize, equip, instruct, train, administer, provide logistical support and ensure the morale, discipline and well-being of their armies to maintain at all times the maximum effectiveness, according to the resources allocated.

b) Schedule and conduct specific exercises to evaluate the effectiveness of their armies.

c) Report to the Chief of the Defense Staff on the degree of readiness of his armies.

d) Define the military specifications of the weapons and support systems needed for their armies and technically inspect the execution of the corresponding military equipment and infrastructure programs.

e) To advise the Secretary of State of Defense in the preparation, direction and development of the economic policy, armaments and material and infrastructure of his armies and to inform him about his execution.

f) Advise the Assistant Secretary of Defense in the preparation, direction and development of personnel and teaching policy in the Armed Forces and the organization and administration of their armies and inform them about their execution.

Article 3. Secretary of State for Defence.

1. The Secretary of State of Defense is the top organ of the department to which the general coordination of the department's higher and managerial bodies, under the superior authority of the Minister, corresponds. It is also the responsibility of the management, the impetus and the management of the economic policy, the armaments and the material and the infrastructure in the field of defense.

2. In addition to the powers conferred upon it by Article 14 of Law 6/1997 of 14 April of the Organization and the Functioning of the General Administration of the State, in particular, the following functions correspond to:

(a) To direct and coordinate the procurement and administration of economic resources, as well as to promote and coordinate scientific and technical research in matters affecting national defense.

b) To direct the policy of armaments, material and infrastructure in its relations with international and foreign agencies, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.

c) Establish the forecast of economic availabilities for the formulation of programmes in the long, medium or short term.

d) Support the Minister in coordinating the activities of the various higher bodies and managers of the department.

e) Address the planning of information and telecommunications systems, and coordinate information security policy.

3. The following management bodies are dependent on the Secretary of State for Defence:

a) The General Directorate of Armament and Material.

(b) The Directorate-General for Economic Affairs.

c) The General Directorate of Infrastructure.

4. It is also up to the Secretary of State for Defence of the General Inspectorate of the Plan Director of Information and Telecommunications Systems, approved by Order DEF/315/2002 of 14 February, to exercise the functions of management, management and monitoring of the said master plan and shall be directly responsible for the proper implementation of the tasks necessary for its implementation. The General Inspection of the Director Plan shall be assigned to all persons working in the development and management of the director plan, which shall be appointed for such purposes by the Secretary of State of Defense.

5. As organs of support, advice and immediate assistance to the Secretary of State for Defence, there is a Cabinet, with an organic level of sub-directorate general, with the structure set out in Article 17.3 of Royal Decree 562/2004 of 19 April, and a Technical Cabinet, whose Director will be a general or official officer, also with a rank of deputy director-general.

6. The Secretary of State of Defense shall hold the representation of the department, by delegation of the Minister, in the cases in which he is entrusted.

7. The National Aerospace Technical Institute "Esteban Terradas" is attached to the Secretary of State of Defense.

Article 4. General Directorate of Armament and Material.

1. The General Directorate of Armament and Material is the management body responsible for the preparation, planning and development of the department's armaments and material policy, as well as the supervision and management of its execution. For these purposes, the competent bodies of the three armies and the autonomous bodies of the department are functionally dependent on this Directorate-General.

2. The following functions are the responsibility of the General Directorate of Armament and Material:

a) Plan, program and direct the development of the policy of armaments and material, managing and processing, where appropriate, the dossiers for the acquisition of the necessary systems and equipment for the Armed Forces.

b) Propose programs for the procurement and modernization of armaments and equipment, as well as maintenance and logistical support. Direct, coordinate and monitor the implementation of the programmes. Develop and, where appropriate, manage the specific programs that the Secretary of State of Defense assigns to you.

c) Negotiating and managing industrial cooperation and compensation arising from overseas acquisitions and controlling the transfer of national technology to third countries, as well as assessing, controlling and coordinating the obtained as a result of international programmes, agreements or conventions.

d) To collaborate in the formulation and implementation of defense industrial policy, coordinating its actions with the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade and other relevant bodies.

e) To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the capabilities offered by the national industry in relation to the defense, classifying the supply companies by technological and industrial sectors.

f) to direct and, where appropriate, to carry out the technical and economic inspection of industrial activity related to the goods and services for defence, and to intervene as a technical organ in the assurance of the quality of the armaments and defence material.

g) Collaborate with the Directorate-General for Defence Policy in civil emergency planning, and coordinate, where appropriate, the implementation of the industry-related plans.

h) Standardize, catalog, and approve weapons systems, equipment, and products of interest to the Armed Forces, as well as the systematic management of materials and spare parts, promoting their unification and interoperability.

i) To be in compliance with the regulations on industrial safety in the field of their competence.

j) To exercise the powers that the respective regulations on manufacture, marketing and transport of arms and explosives entrust to the Ministry of Defense.

k) Relating, in coordination with the Directorate General of Defense Policy, with international and foreign agencies on issues of armaments and material. To negotiate, manage and promote cooperation programmes with other countries in the area of armaments policy.

l) Participate in the control of foreign trade in defense and dual-use material and technologies, both in import and export and transit, in accordance with current legislation.

m) Propose, promote and manage the plans and programs of research and development of weapons systems and equipment of interest to the national defense.

3. The following management bodies are responsible for the General Directorate of Armament and Material:

(a) The General Sub-Directorate of Planning and Programs, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.a), (b) and (c).

(b) The Subdirectorate-General for Inspection and Technical Services, which carries out the functions referred to in paragraph 2 (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i) and (j).

(c) The Subdirectorate General for International Relations, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.k) and (l).

(d) The General Subdirectorate of Technology and Centres, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.m.)

4. It is attached to the General Directorate of Armament and Material the Canal of Hydrodynamic Experiences of El Pardo.

Article 5. Directorate-General for Economic Affairs.

1. The Directorate-General for Economic Affairs is the executive body responsible for the preparation, planning and development of the department's economic and financial policy, as well as the supervision and direction of its implementation. For these purposes, the competent bodies of the three armies and the autonomous bodies of the department are functionally dependent on this Directorate-General.

2. The following functions are the responsibility of the Directorate-General for Economic Affairs:

a) Plan, program and direct the development of economic and financial policy, managing and processing the necessary contractual and spending processes to address the needs of the defense.

b) Prepare and propose unified economic and financial management procedures at the department level.

c) Develop, direct and keep the department's accounting, in its budgetary, financial and analytical aspects.

d) Exercise control over all department expenses and report on them.

e) to exercise the powers and functions relating to the preparation, implementation and monitoring of the budget established by the General Budget Law and other general provisions governing these matters.

f) Exercise the powers and functions that are regulated by the Budgetary Offices.

g) Direct the department's economic programming in the long, medium and short term, and control its development.

h) Conduct studies, reports, and proposals in the field of your competence.

i) Manage the resources assigned to you and those not expressly attributed to other organs of the ministry.

(j) Manage all economic resources destined for acquisitions abroad, in accordance with what is established in this field and exercise its economic and financial control.

k) Manage the department's appropriations to finance the Spanish participation in international organizations, exercising the national representation in the committees of resources and decision-making bodies in financial matters, in coordination with the General Staff of Defense and the Directorate General for Defense Policy, as the case may be.

l) Manage the financial resources for the operation of the Defense Ministry and military representations abroad.

m) Managing resources to finance the participation of the Armed Forces in crisis and national emergency situations, coordinating with the General Staff of Defense and the Directorate General for Defense Policy, according to the cases, their relationship with the competent civil authorities.

n) Manage and control the financial resources to finance the participation of the Armed Forces in peacekeeping and humanitarian aid operations, in coordination with the Defense Staff.

n) To carry out the analysis of costs in the field of the department and of the costs and prices of the companies supplying or participating in defense programs.

o) Develop and coordinate rules on procurement procedures at the department level, as well as control their compliance.

3. The following management bodies are responsible for the Directorate-General for Economic Affairs:

(a) The General Accounting Subdirectorate, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.c) and (d) and those referred to in paragraph 2.a), (b), (e) and (h).

(b) The Budget Office, which carries out the tasks referred to in paragraph 2. (f) and (g) and those referred to in paragraph 2 (a), (b), (e) and (h).

(c) The General Secretariat for Economic Management, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.i), (j), (k), (l), (m) and (n) and those referred to in paragraph 2.a), (b) and (h).

(d) the General Subdirectorate of Contracting, which carries out the tasks referred to in paragraph 2 (n) and (o) and those referred to in paragraph 2 (a), (b) and (h).

4. It is up to the Directorate-General for Economic Affairs to decide on the General Board of Directors and Liquidator of Material.

Article 6. Directorate-General for Infrastructure.

1. The Directorate-General for Infrastructure is the management body responsible for the preparation, planning and development of the department's infrastructure and environmental policies, as well as the supervision and management of its implementation. For these purposes, the competent bodies of the three armies and the autonomous agencies of the department are functionally dependent on this Directorate-General.

2. The following functions correspond to the General Infrastructure Directorate:

a) Develop necessary studies leading to the definition of the department's infrastructure and environmental policies.

b) Propose for approval the department's infrastructure plans and programs and, where appropriate, manage those entrusted to it, as well as follow up its execution in a way that allows for the analysis of the costs.

c) Relating, in coordination with the Directorate-General for Defence Policy, with international bodies in the field of infrastructure and the environment. It is also responsible for the monitoring and control of international programmes and projects, in the field of their competence, in which the department participates.

d) Conduct studies, inspections, opinions, reports and projects of any kind, in the field of infrastructure and the environment.

e) To direct the territorial management of the Ministry of Defense's infrastructure.

f) Collaborate in the formulation and implementation of the State's environmental policy by coordinating its action with the Ministry of the Environment and other relevant bodies, and develop and propose the corresponding legislation.

g) Direct the management of the goods and rights affected to the Ministry of Defense and take their inventory.

(h) Exercise ministerial powers in relation to areas of interest for national defence, security of facilities and restricted access to property by foreigners.

i) Initiate the procurement processes of goods and rights integrated into the department's infrastructure plans and programs.

j) Make the expropriations of goods and rights, as well as the relevant leases.

k) Develop the classification of facilities and materials in the field of their competence, as well as carry out the supervision of projects and works.

3. The following management bodies depend on the General Infrastructure Directorate:

(a) The General Planning and Control Subdirectorate, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.a), (b), (c), (e) and (f) and those referred to in paragraph 2.d.

(b) The General Sub-Directorate of Heritage, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.g), (h), (i) and (j) and those referred to in paragraph 2 (d).

(c) The General Subdirectorate for Tiification and Supervision, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.k) and those referred to in paragraph 2.d.

4. It is attached to the General Directorate of Infrastructure the Management of Infrastructure and Equipment of Defense.

5. They are directly dependent on the General Infrastructure Directorate:

a) The Military Building Service.

b) The Army Engineer Laboratory.

Article 7. Deputy Secretary of Defense.

1. The Deputy Secretary of Defense is the executive branch of the department, under the authority of the Minister, the management, promotion and management of the department's personnel, recruitment, teaching and health policy. as the ordinary representation of the ministry, the management of its common services and the exercise of the powers referred to in Article 15 of Law 6/1997 of 14 April of the Organization and the Functioning of the General Administration of Status, and in particular the performance of the following functions:

(a) Develop or propose provisions on personnel and military education.

b) To direct the general management of all military personnel and the specific of the Common Corps of the Armed Forces and of the military personnel who are not framed in one of the armies.

(c) To direct, coordinate and control the remuneration and social action policy in the field of the department and its autonomous agencies.

d) To direct the planning and development of the recruitment policy and general regime of the military personnel.

e) Promote and coordinate the legislative and regulatory development of the department.

f) Maintain appropriate relations with the organs of military jurisdiction in order to provide the necessary means and to implement the judicial decisions.

g) Agree, in accordance with current legislation, and prior to the reports it deems necessary, to insert into the "Official Gazette of the Ministry of Defense" of the general provisions, resolutions and administrative acts.

h) To direct the organisms that constitute the peripheral structure of the central organs of the department.

i) To direct, coordinate and control the actions related to the inspection of the personnel regime of the members of the Armed Forces, as well as the conditions of life on ships, bases and waterings.

2. The Assistant Secretary of Defense will hold the representation of the department, by delegation of the minister, in the cases in which he is entrusted.

3. The Assistant Secretary of Defense has a Technical Cabinet, as an organ of support, advice and immediate assistance. Its Director shall be an official or official officer, with an organic level of deputy director-general.

4. The following management bodies, with an organic level of general direction, depend on the Defence Secretariat:

(a) The Technical General Secretariat.

b) The General Directorate of Personnel.

c) The Directorate-General for Military Recruitment and Teaching.

5. With the organic level of general sub-direction, the following management bodies depend on the Department's Secretariat:

(a) The Subdirectorate-General of the Internal Regime, which is responsible for the government, security, internal regime, operation, maintenance and general services of the central organs of the ministry, as well as the general record and file.

b) The Services General Subdirection

Economic and Pagadurias, the body to which it is responsible to exercise the powers that, in matters of budget implementation, credit control, economic management and accountability, attribute the regulations to it, as well as to direct and manage the payments of the central bodies, except those allocated to the Directorate-General for Economic Affairs.

It is also the coordinating body with the Directorate-General for Economic Affairs for the monitoring and information of the department's budget.

6. The following bodies also depend on the Defence Secretariat:

a) The General Legal Counsel of the Defense.

b) The General Intervention of Defense.

c) The General Inspection of Defence Health.

7. They are attached to the Assistant Secretary of Defense:

(a) The Social Institute of the Armed Forces.

b) The Institute for Housing of the Armed Forces.

8. It also depends on the Undersecretary of Defense, with the organic level to be determined in the relation of jobs, the Office for Modernization of the Military Administration, which will develop the functions of programming, analysis and Proposal for the rationalization and simplification of management structures and procedures in the field of military administration.

9. The Defense Delegations in the autonomous communities and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla are organically dependent on the Department's Secretariat.

10. The inspection of the personnel regime of the members of the Armed Forces and of the conditions of life on ships, bases and aquartelings may be carried out by the Subdirectorates General of Military Personnel, Military Education and of Troop and Marineria and through the General Inspection of Health of the Defense, which will act as inspection bodies in the field of their respective competences, or by means of the personnel controls of the armies.

Article 8. Technical General Secretariat.

1. The Technical General Secretariat is the management body responsible for technical and administrative assistance to the Ministry's authorities; the preparation and development of the department's policy on organization, procedures, and methods (a) work, technical services, information and telecommunications systems of interest to the defence and publications, as well as the supervision and management of their implementation, and the coordination of the bodies constituting the peripheral structure of the central organs of the ministry. To this end, the competent bodies of the three armies and the autonomous agencies of the department are functionally dependent on this management centre.

2. It is for the Technical General Secretariat to exercise the functions attributed to it by Law 50/1997 of 27 November of the Government and 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 performance of the following functions:

a) Report the general provisions of the department, in accordance with the rules of administrative procedure; process the consultations to the State Council, prepare the compilations of the existing provisions and propose the revision and recasting of legal texts.

b) Develop studies and reports on how many matters will be submitted to the Council of Ministers, the Government's Delegate Commissions and the General Secretariat of State Secretaries.

c) Propose and develop rules on organisational reforms, procedures and working methods.

d) Lead, coordinate and, where appropriate, execute the actions related to social studies.

e) Coordinate, manage and inspect the Defense Delegations and the military residences under the Defense Secretariat.

(f) To carry out the actions relating to information and telecommunications systems and networks, of interest to the defence, intended to cover the needs of the higher bodies of national defence, and also those of those other bodies which are available, and plan and coordinate the establishment and operation of the fixed or permanent systems and networks of the department, excluding telecommunications specific to the conduct of operations military.

g) Ensure the link, under the conditions and with the scope to be determined, between the department's authorities and management centres, and the department with the external networks that are available, and ensure compliance with the regulatory procedures in the information and telecommunications systems that are responsible for it.

h) Plan and monitor the execution or, where appropriate, execute the actions in statistical matters, operational research and mapping.

i) To deal with the conflicts of privileges that may be resolved to the Minister, the Assistant Secretary or other top authority of the department.

(j) to deal with and formulate proposals for the resolution of administrative resources, prior to judicial, civil or employment claims, claims for compensation and requests made under the the right of petition, as well as the procedures for the ex officio review of administrative acts.

k) To fulfill the actions that correspond to the Ministry of Defense derived from the judicial-administrative resources, and to process and propose the orders of execution of the sentences that are dictated in those.

l) To direct the services of administrative information and attention to the citizen of the department, central and peripheral, in accordance with the current regulations.

m) Manage, edit and publish the "Official Gazette of the Ministry of Defense" and other official publications of the department, in accordance with the privileges conferred by the current legislation on the management of publications officers; lead and, where appropriate, execute the actions related to documentation, and promote publications of interest to the department.

n) Coordinate the department libraries.

3. They depend on the Technical General Secretariat, with a rank of general sub-directorate, the following governing bodies:

(a) The Technical Vice-Secretary-General, who develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.a), (b), (c), (d) and (e).

(b) The General Subdirectorate for Technical Services and Telecommunications, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.f), (g) and (h).

(c) The Subdirectorate-General for Resources and Administrative Information, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.i), (j), (k) and (l).

(d) The General Secretariat for Documentation and Publications, which carries out the functions referred to in paragraph 2.m. and n.

4. The Technical General Secretariat is attached to the Fund for the Operation of the Cría Caballar and Traces.

Article 9. Directorate-General for Personnel.

1. The Directorate-General for Personnel is the management body responsible for the planning of the department's personnel policy and the programming and development of this policy in relation to the military personnel, the military complement and civilian, civil and labor personnel serving the Ministry of Defense, as well as the supervision and direction of its execution in the framework of the Defense Planning. For these purposes, the competent bodies in the aforementioned subjects of the armies and the autonomous agencies of the department are functionally dependent on this Directorate-General.

2. The following functions are the responsibility of the Directorate-General for Personnel:

a) Develop and propose the general criteria that should govern the integral planning of personnel in the department.

b) To direct and coordinate the development of the personal plan, as well as to carry out its review and update and the planning of personnel and personnel costs for the department, according to the forecasts to be established, and to draw up proposals for the provision of seats in the Armed Forces.

c) Coordinate and control the review and update of all the templates and the department's job relationships, as well as elaborate and process the templates whose determination the Assistant Secretary Defense.

d) Develop and propose the rules governing the regime of bodies, scales and specialties of the professional military, and coordinate and verify its application.

e) To elaborate and propose the arrangements for the adaptation of the remuneration system of the members of the Armed Forces, as well as to inform and formulate proposals on those matters that have an impact on the Armed Forces. Manage and deal with matters related to this subject, the resolution of which corresponds to the Minister and the Assistant Secretary of Defense, as well as to manage and exercise those other matters that are attributed to it by the current regulations.

f) Quantifying and proposing the personnel and personnel costs to be included in the multi-annual scenarios and in the preliminary draft budget, as well as controlling and evaluating the department's personnel expenditure.

g) Plan, control and coordinate the information system for the management of department personnel.

(h) Develop and propose the rules governing the general staff regime and the military status of the members of the Armed Forces and coordinate and verify their implementation, as well as exercise the inspector's function of the regime personnel of the members of the Armed Forces in the field of their competences.

i) Establish the general criteria that should govern the management of military personnel.

j) Manage, with respect to the military personnel of the career and complement and the staff of the service of religious assistance, the competences attributed to the Minister and the Assistant Secretary of Defense, as well as to manage and to exercise those other information that is attributed to it by the current regulations.

k) Develop, propose and direct the policy of social action for military personnel, as well as manage the plans and programmes derived from it, without prejudice to the management powers that correspond to other bodies.

l) to process the files, to recognize the passive rights and to grant the benefits of passive classes caused by the military personnel.

m) Develop, propose and coordinate the implementation of the specific regulations affecting the civil personnel of the department.

n) Manage the competencies that, with respect to the civilian personnel, have been attributed to the Minister and the Assistant Secretary of Defense, as well as to manage and to exercise those other that are attributed to it by the current regulations.

n) Develop and propose the provisions on remuneration that, with respect to civilian personnel, are the responsibility of the department. To manage and deal with matters related to this subject, the resolution of which corresponds to the Minister and the Assistant Secretary of Defense, and to manage and exercise the powers conferred upon it by the current regulations.

o) Develop, propose and direct the policy of social action for civilian personnel, training and prevention in occupational hazards applicable to the civil personnel of the department, in accordance with the regulations and agreements in force in the framework of the General Administration of the State.

3. The following management bodies are responsible for the Directorate-General for Personnel:

(a) The Subdirectorate-General for Human Resources Planning and Costs, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g).

(b) The General Subdirectorate of Military Personnel, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.h), (i), (j), (k) and (l).

(c) The General Subdirectorate of Civil Personnel, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.m), (n), (n) and (o).

4. They also depend on the Directorate-General for Personnel:

a) The Arzobishopric Castrense.

b) The Administrative Unit of the Royal and Military Orders of San Fernando and San Hermenegildo.

Article 10. Directorate-General for Military Recruitment and Teaching.

1. The Directorate-General for Military Recruitment and Teaching is the leading organ, in the framework of comprehensive planning, the preparation, planning and development of the policy of obtaining, training and teaching staff. The military and the military personnel, as well as the military and military personnel, as well as the supervision and management of their execution. For these purposes, the competent bodies in the aforementioned subjects of the armies and the autonomous agencies of the department are functionally dependent on this Directorate-General.

2. The following functions are the responsibility of the Directorate-General for Military Recruitment and Teaching:

(a) Plan, direct and support the recruitment of career military, complement military, professional troops and sailors and volunteer reservists, as well as manage their incorporation into the Armed Forces for their training.

b) To direct and supervise the execution of the recruitment functions by means of the agencies, centers and agencies concerned with the recruitment and selection of military personnel for the Armed Forces.

(c) Designing and ordering the system of military education, as a unitary system integrated in the general education system as a whole, in the field of military training, military training and higher education military studies.

d) Develop and propose the general guidelines of the curricula for military training for the training of the career military, the complement military and the military personnel of troops and marineria, as well. how to coordinate the drafting of the relevant curricula. It is also up to him to coordinate the training plans for reservists.

e) To elaborate and propose the general regime of the military teaching centers, students and teachers.

f) Propose the creation, transfer, coordination, unification or suppression of military teaching centers.

g) To direct the teachings of the staff of the Armed Forces ' Common Corps, the teachings of a joint nature, and the functioning of the teaching centers directly dependent on this Directorate General.

h) Promote and direct the establishment of relations and concerts with universities and educational institutions, civil and military, to carry out joint activities, teach and develop research programmes or other type of collaboration. When it comes to international or foreign bodies, it will coordinate its action with the Directorate General for Defence Policy. It will also promote the collaboration of the General Administration of the State, of the autonomous and local institutions and of the cultural, social and business entities with the military teaching centers.

i) Develop and propose the specific regime of the professional troops of troops and marineria and coordinate their implementation.

j) Manage, with respect to the personnel of troops and marineria, the competences attributed to the Minister and the Assistant Secretary of Defense, as well as to manage and to exercise those other that are attributed to it by the current regulations.

k) Establish and coordinate the implementation of military personnel quality of life plans.

l) Develop and implement the mechanisms for the professional military personnel of troops and marineria to access educational modules and training programs that enable them to return to work.

m) Compose and implement a plan of professional departures, both in the different public administrations and in the private sector, at the end of the temporary commitment to the Armed Forces.

3. The following management bodies are responsible for the Directorate-General for Military Recruitment and Teaching:

(a) The General Subdirectorate for Recruitment, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.a) and b).

(b) The General Secretariat for Military Education, which carries out the tasks referred to in paragraph 2.c), (d), (e), (f), (g) and (h).

(c) The General Subdirectorate of Troop and Marineria, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.i), (j), (k), (l) and (m).

4. It also depends on this Directorate-General, with the organic level to be determined in the employment relationship, the General Office of Reserves, which corresponds to the preparation, planning and development of the policy on the the establishment, organisation and operation of the system of supplementary human resources. His leadership will be performed by a general officer.

Article 11. General Legal Counsel of the Defense.

1. The General Legal Counsel of the Defense issues the statutory legal reports, in accordance with the provisions in force, and evacuates those requested by the higher organs and directors of the ministry. The report of the General Legal Counsel of the Defense, when required, shall always be issued in the last place and immediately before the resolution that comes, except in cases where otherwise, by standard of equal or higher rank.

2. The role of legal advice, which is a unique function in the department's field, is exercised under the direction of the General Legal Adviser of the Defence, who can, for this purpose, instruct the Legal Assessor of the General Staff of the Exercises and any other in the field of the department, and to evacuate the consultations that will be asked to ensure the proper coordination and unit of criteria.

3. Without prejudice to the specific powers of the Minister and the Assistant Secretary of Defense, the General Legal Counsel is responsible for the department's relations with the governing bodies of the military jurisdiction, the Togolese Attorney General's Office, and the Advocate General of the State-Directorate of the State Legal Service. Likewise, she assists the Assistant Secretary of Defense in the study, preparation and execution of all the issues related to the military prison administration.

4. The functions referred to in the above paragraphs are developed by personnel belonging to the Military Legal Body.

5. The position of General Legal Counsel is performed by a general counsel, in active service situation.

6. The position of the General Legal Counsel of the Defense has precedence over the other positions of the Military Legal Body.

Article 12. General Intervention of the Defense.

1. The General Intervention of the Defense, functionally dependent on the General Intervention of the State Administration, has the task of exercising, in the field of the Ministry of Defense and the autonomous agencies attached to it, the control of the internal financial management, through the exercise of the intervention function and, in the terms, conditions and scope to be determined in each case by the General Intervention of the State Administration, the financial control and the public audit.

Likewise, it is up to you to exercise the military notary in the form and conditions established by the laws and to issue as many reports as requested, in matters of your competence, by the higher bodies and managers of the Ministry of Defense.

2. The functions referred to in the previous paragraph are exercised, by personnel belonging to the Military Intervention Corps, under the direction of the General Controller of the Defense, who, to this end, may issue instructions to the Interventions Delegated Central to the General Headquarters of the Armies and to any other department of the department, in respect of the interpretation and application of the general rules, and to evacuate the consultations that those that make to assure the due coordination and unit of criterion.

3. The General Controller of the Defense assumes all the powers conferred on him by the norm that regulates the basic organic structure of the General Intervention of Defense.

4. The position of the General Controller of the Defense is carried out by a general of financial division, in active service situation.

5. The position of the General Controller of Defense takes precedence over the other charges of the Military Intervention Corps.

Article 13. General Inspection of Defence Health.

1. The General Inspection of Defence Health is the body responsible for the preparation, planning and development of health policy. In the framework of the general planning and management plans of resources derived from the planning of the military defense, it corresponds to the specific planning of the material and financial resources assigned to it, as well as the integration of the general needs of human resources. It is also the advice of the department's higher bodies in the field of military health.

2. Without prejudice to their nature and organic membership, the Health Directorates of the armies are functionally dependent on this inspection. Therefore, the General Inspection of Defense Health will dictate technical instructions and service orders addressed to these Directorates to ensure the best use and integration of the available resources and to achieve the maximum degree of health coverage and effectiveness in the Armed Forces.

3. In particular, the following functions correspond to:

a) Develop studies and proposals on military health in all aspects related to the specific competencies of each of the specialties that make up the Military Corps of Health. In the logistic-operational field, it will be done in accordance with the requirements and operational requirements established in the planning of the military defense.

b) Coordinate the health support, logistic-operational according to the guidelines received from the Chief of the Defense Staff and the Chiefs of the Army of Land, Navy and Air Force.

c) To direct the management of the military health network, as well as to direct and coordinate the health-care and health prevention activities in the field of defense.

d) Manage pharmaceutical management and production of pharmaceutical products.

e) Coordinate with the armies and, where appropriate, provide the pharmaceutical support.

f) Propose, direct, coordinate with the armies, and in their case contribute, the veterinary support in the field of defense.

g) Lead, coordinate and, where appropriate, execute the actions related to psychology in the Armed Forces.

h) Develop and propose health agreements.

(i) to be involved, in coordination with the Directorate-General for Defence Policy, with international bodies in the field of its competence.

4. The position of Inspector General of Defense Health is performed by a division general of the Military Corps of Health in active duty.

5. The position of Inspector General of Health of the Defense has precedence over the other charges of the Military Corps of Health.

Article 14. General Secretary for Defence Policy.

1. The General Secretariat of Defense Policy is the executive board of the department to which it corresponds, under the superior authority of the Minister, the direction, impulse and management of the defense policy of the department, of the non-operative aspects of military policy, excluding those related to the preparation of the Force. In particular, it performs the following functions:

a) Coordinate general defense planning with other departments.

b) To direct the elaboration of the guidelines in the field of defense policy, both in the field of bilateral relations with other States and in that of the international organizations of security and defense to which Spain (a) it belongs to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and without prejudice to the principle of unity of action outside the State.

(c) To promote and develop defence policy actions in the field of international collective security and defence organisations, especially in the Atlantic Alliance and in the European Union, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and without prejudice to the principle of unity of action outside the State.

d) To direct Spanish participation in the planning systems of the organizations or alliances to which Spain belongs.

e) To direct the elaboration of international treaties, agreements, conventions and conferences of interest to the national defense, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and without prejudice to the principle of unity of action outside the State.

f) Coordinate the department in collaboration with other departments in the response and resolution of crisis and conflict situations in the field of security and defense policy, within the framework of the National System of conduct of crisis situations.

g) To direct the permanent body of work of the national authority for civil defense planning and to hold the national representation in this field in international organizations of collective defense or alliances which Spain belongs to.

h) Coordinate the collaboration of the Armed Forces with the competent agencies for emergency situations at the national level, and in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in the field "

i) Coordinate the international mobilization of resources and direct their implementation in the field of the department.

j) To direct the institutional relations of the defense with the aim of spreading and promoting the awareness of national defense.

k) Address the department's cultural policy.

2. The Secretary General of Defense Policy will hold the representation of the department, by delegation of the Minister, in the cases in which it is entrusted and, in particular, to the international organizations of security and collective defense of which Spain is a party.

3. The Secretary General of Defense Policy has a Technical Cabinet, as an organ of support, advice and immediate assistance. Its Director shall be a general or official officer.

4. The Secretary General of Defense Policy acts as secretary of the National Defense Board.

5. The following management bodies are dependent on the General Secretariat for Defence Policy:

a) The Directorate General of Defense Policy.

b) The Directorate General for Institutional Relations of Defense.

6. The Spanish section of the Spanish-American Permanent Committee, an organ of the Ministry of Defense whose organization and operation is governed by the provisions of Royal Decree 916/1989, is attached to the General Secretariat of Defense Policy. July 14.

7. The Defense Ministry's Foreign Ministry is also dependent on the General Secretariat for Defense Policy.

Article 15. Directorate-General for Defence Policy.

1. The Directorate-General for Defence Policy is the steering body to which the planning and development of defence policy is concerned. For these purposes, the competent bodies in the aforementioned subjects of the armies and the autonomous agencies of the department are functionally dependent on this Directorate-General.

2. The following functions are the responsibility of the Directorate-General for Defence Policy:

(a) Develop and propose guidelines on defense policy and non-operational aspects of military policy, as well as control and coordinate their development and implementation.

b) Plan and develop defense policy actions in the international arena.

c) Prepare, negotiate and propose international treaties, agreements, conventions and conferences of interest to the national defense, in coordination with the higher bodies and management of the department in the field of their (a) the respective powers and with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.

d) To monitor and evaluate the international situation, in the field of security and defense policy.

e) To contribute to the monitoring, response and resolution of crisis and conflict situations in the field of security and defense policy, in the framework of the national crisis management system.

f) Act as the permanent body of work of the national authority for emergency civil planning.

g) Propose the regulations, plan and manage the collaboration of the Armed Forces with the competent agencies in emergency situations.

h) Plan and direct resource mobilization at the department level.

i) Act as the working body of the National Defense Board.

3. The following management bodies are responsible for the Directorate-General for Defence Policy:

(a) The General Subdirectorate of Defence Plans and International Relations, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.b), (c), (d) and (i) and those referred to in paragraph 2.a).

(b) The General Secretariat for Civil Cooperation and Defence, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.e), (f), (g) and (h) and those referred to in paragraph 2.a).

Article 16. Directorate-General for Institutional Relations of the Defense.

1. The Directorate General of Institutional Relations of the Defense is the executive body responsible for the planning and development of the cultural policy of the department and the institutional relations of the defense. To this end, the bodies responsible for the aforementioned subjects of the three armies and the autonomous agencies of the department are functionally dependent on this management body.

2. The following functions are the responsibility of the Directorate-General for Institutional Relations:

a) Promote and coordinate the policy of promoting, disseminating and promoting national defense awareness b) Coordinate, promote and disseminate the cultural action of the department.

c) Manage the protection, conservation and dissemination of historical military, furniture and documentary heritage.

d) Schedule the policy of military museums.

e) Catalogar the military castles and establishments of historical-artistic character and program their utilities.

f) Cataloging military files and scheduling their operation

3. The following management bodies are responsible for the Directorate-General for Institutional Relations:

(a) The Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.a) and b); to this end, it will enhance joint actions with the Ministries of Education and Science and Culture, universities and educational institutions.

(b) The General Subdirectorate of Historical-Artistic Heritage, which develops the functions referred to in paragraph 2.c), (d), (e) and (f).

Article 17. Directorate-General for Communication of the Defence.

1. The Directorate General of Defense Communication, directly dependent on the Minister of Defense, is the executive body responsible for the preparation, planning and development of the department's information policy, as well as the relations with the society as a whole and with the media, including the corresponding campaigns for public disclosure and institutional advertising.

For these purposes, the competent bodies in this field of the three armies and the autonomous bodies will be functionally dependent on this Directorate-General.

In attention to the specific characteristics of this Directorate-General, its holder, in accordance with the provisions of Article 18.2 of Law 6/1997 of 14 April of the Organization and the Functioning of the General Administration of the State, it shall not be necessary to hold the official status.

2. In particular, the following functions correspond to:

(a) To promote, direct and maintain information and institutional advertising relations with the social media and society as a whole.

b) Spread the general character information of the department.

c) Manage the ministry's website.

d) Coordinate the communication offices of the General Headquarters, commanders and units of the armies.

e) The functional and editorial direction of the Revista Española de Defensa and all the non-specifically technical-administrative publications belonging to the ministry.

3. Depends on the General Address of

Communication of the Defence the General Subdirectorate of the Communication, which will manage the development of paragraph 2.

4. It is up to the Director General of Defence Communication to act as the department's official spokesperson. For the purpose of this task, it will have a Social Communication Office and another Office of Institutional Advertising, the holders of which will have the organic level to be determined in the employment relationship.

Article 18. Board of Chiefs of Staff.

1. The Board of Chiefs of Staff, constituted by the Chief of Staff of the Defense and the Chiefs of the Army of Land, Navy and Air Force, organized organically and functionally in the Ministry of Defence, it is the collegiate body of military advice of the President of the Government and the Minister of Defence and exercises the powers and functions conferred on it by the legislation in force.

2. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are the Joint Chiefs of Staff and their Chief acts as secretary of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with a voice but no vote.

Article 19. Top Councils of the Army of the Earth, the Navy and the Air Force.

The Superior Councils of the Army of the Earth, the Navy, and the Air Force are the advisory and advisory bodies of the Defense Minister and the Chief of Staff of the respective Army, with the powers and These are the functions attributed to them by Law 17/1999, of 18 May, of the Staff Regulations of the Armed Forces, and other regulations that are applicable to them.

Article 20. Senior Joint Chiefs of the Armed Forces Joint Corps.

the Superior Boards of the Military, Military, Military and Military Legal Corps are the advisory and advisory bodies of the Defense Minister in those matters that he attributes to them. Law 17/1999, of 18 May, of the Staff Regulations of the Armed Forces, and other regulatory standards that are applicable.

Additional disposition first. Order of precedence of the authorities of the department.

The order of precedence of the superior authorities of the department in the acts of special character referred to by the General Order of Precedence of the State, approved by Royal Decree 2099/1983 of 4 August, and in the internal regime of the ministry, is as follows:

a) Minister of Defense.

b) Chief of Defense Staff.

c) Secretary of State for Defense.

d) Deputy Secretary of Defense.

e) Secretary General of Defense Policy f) Chief of Staff of the Army of Land.

g) Chief of Staff of the Navy.

h) Chief of Staff of the Air Force.

Additional provision second. Information and telecommunications networks and systems.

1. By agreement of the Council of Ministers, the networks and systems referred to in Article 8.2.g shall be determined, to be managed and managed by the General Secretariat for Technical Services and Telecommunications.

2. Following agreement with the General Subdirectorate of Technical Services and Telecommunications, the Directorate General for Civil Protection and Emergencies of the Ministry of the Interior will be able to use, in emergency situations, the managed and managed networks by the aforementioned Subdirectorate General.

Additional provision third. Removal of organs.

The following departments of the department are deleted, with organic level of general subdirection:

a) The Subdirectorate General for Social Relations and Communication of the Defense.

b) The Publications Center.

Additional provision fourth. Collegiate bodies.

Collegiate organs of the department, whose composition and functions are of a purely ministerial level, may be regulated, modified or suppressed by the order of the Minister of Defense, even if their rules of creation or modification has range of royal decree.

Additional provision fifth. No increase in public spending.

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 management and will not increase public expenditure.

Single transient arrangement. Units and jobs with lower organic level than general sub-direction.

The units and jobs with the lower organic level to the general sub-directorate will continue to remain and will be paid from the same budget appropriations until the corresponding relations are approved. or catalogues of jobs of the department adapted to the organic structure of this royal decree.

The units and posts of work in the deleted organs, or whose organic dependence has been modified by this royal decree, shall be provisionally assigned, by means of a resolution of the Undersecretary, and after agreement, If appropriate, the Secretary of State, until the corresponding relations or catalogues of jobs enter into force, to the bodies regulated in this royal decree according to the attributions assigned to them.

Single repeal provision. Regulatory repeal.

1. Royal Decree 1883/1996 of 2 August 1996 of basic organic structure of the Ministry of Defence, as amended by Royal Decrees 76/2000 of 21 January, and 64/2001 of 26 January, is hereby repealed with the exception of the third provision of this last.

2. Royal Decree 1250/1997 of 24 July 1997 is hereby repealed, which constitutes the operational command structure of the Armed Forces, except for Article 2 (1).

3. As many provisions of equal or lower rank are repealed, they oppose the provisions of this royal decree.

Final disposition first. Amendment of Royal Decree 1249/1997 of 24 July, which regulates the organization of the Higher Center for National Defense Studies.

A final provision is added to Royal Decree 1249/1997 of July 24, which regulates the organization of the Higher Center for National Defense Studies, with the following wording:

" Final disposition first bis. Organic dependency.

The Minister of Defense is empowered to modify the organic dependence of the Higher Center for National Defense Studies and establish, where appropriate, the functional dependencies that come with respect to the High School. Studies of the Defense and the Higher School of the Armed Forces. "

Final disposition second. Management of social action policies and support for the defence personnel.

Within one year of the entry into force of this royal decree, the Minister of Defense will propose to the Government the necessary measures to promote the organic adaptation of social action and support for the personnel. In order to rationalise, modernise and order existing administrative services.

Final disposition third. Powers of development.

The Minister of Defense is empowered to adopt the necessary measures for the development and execution of this royal decree, prior to the implementation of the appropriate legal procedures.

Final disposition fourth. Entry into force.

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

Given in Madrid, 25 June 2004.

JOHN CARLOS R.

The Minister of Public Administration,

JORDI SEVILLA SEGURA