As a consequence of the new organic structure of the Department, carried out by Royal Decree 376/2003, of March 28, which responds to the need to adapt the current framework in which policies will have to be developed In the case of agriculture and fisheries, and in the context of the various management bodies of the Department, it is necessary to amend the Order of 8 January 2001 regulating the management of the payments for the system of fixed cash advances and the issue of payment orders to be justified in the Ministry Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, making the necessary adjustments that the new structure of the Department imposes.

In its virtue, I have:

Single item. Amendment of the Order of 8 January 2001.

The Order of 8 January 2001 is amended, regulating the management of payments by the system of fixed cash advances and the issue of payment orders to be justified in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in the following terms:

1. Article 1 (1), (2), (3) and (5) are worded as follows:

" 1. In order to achieve adequate efficiency and speed in the management of expenditure to be carried out by the payment systems for fixed cash advances and payment orders to be justified, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the following paying boxes:

Central paying box.

Box payable by the General Secretariat for Maritime Fisheries.

Paying Fund for the General Secretariat of Agriculture and Food.

Boxes of the Department of the Department abroad.

Dependent on the Paying Fund of the General Secretariat of Agriculture and Food the following paying sub-box is authorized:

Paying Subbox of the Directorate General for Rural Development.

2. The paying boxes of the Department are attached to the Central Unit of the Paying Banks, under the Department of the Secretariat of the Department, through the Subdirectorate General of Economic and Heritage Administration.

The Central Unit will carry out the coordination and control of the operations of the aforementioned boxes in the terms provided for in Article 4 (3) of Royal Decree 640/1987 of 8 May on payments "to be justified".

The paying fund of the General Secretariat of Agriculture and Food shall be responsible for the funds referred to the sub-cash-dependent sub-box, without prejudice to the responsibility of the sub-cashier in respect of the funds allocated to it. remise.

3. In the first half of the months of January, April, July and October, the Department's ATMs shall send to the Central Unit the cash-flow statements relating to the last day of the preceding quarter, in accordance with the provisions of the provided for in point 5.2 of the Order of 23 December 1987 laying down rules for the development and implementation of Royal Decree 640/1987, in accordance with the model established for that purpose in Annex II to the Order of 1 February 1996, by that the instruction of the accounting operative to follow in the execution of the state expenditure is approved.

For these purposes, the sub-cashier shall be required to give to the General Secretariat of Agriculture and Food the state of cash status, as referred to in the preceding paragraph, in the first five days of the January, April, July and October.

5. These and the heads of the economic units to which the corresponding payment boxes are attached shall be jointly responsible for the custody of the funds provided to the paying cashiers. Similarly, the sub-cashier of the paying sub-box shall be responsible together with the Head of the unit to which it is attached. '

2. Article 2 (2) and (3) shall be worded as

:

" 2. It is delegated to the holders of the Subdirectorates-General on which the respective paying and sub-cash boxes depend on the competence to authorise and commit expenditure, to recognise obligations and to authorise payments and, consequently, the competence for the issue of the relevant accounting documents and how many acts make it possible to replace funds in the supporting accounts of fixed cash advances as follows:

(a) Central paying fund, in the Deputy Director General of Economic and Heritage Management.

b) The paying fund of the General Secretariat for Maritime Fisheries, in the Deputy Director General of Management and Planning of the General Secretariat for Maritime Fisheries.

(c) The paying fund of the General Secretariat of Agriculture and Food, under the Deputy Director General for Support and Coordination of the General Secretariat of Agriculture and Food.

3. It is for the authorities referred to in the previous paragraph to sign the 'paguese' by delegation, by means of a 'payment to cash order' addressed to the various cashiers.

For those payments managed by the sub-cashier of the Rural Development Pager, the "paguese" authorization corresponds to the Subdirector General to which the sub-box is attached, in the same terms as in the above. "

3. Article 3 (2) is worded as follows:

" 2. In accordance with Article 79.2.b of the recast text of the General Budget Law, the booklets to be carried out to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food outside the Ministry of Agriculture shall be of a payment " to justify " and shall serve to cover the costs relating to services or services which take place in foreign territory. In this case, the direction and follow up of such bookkeeping to the Consejeries

on the outside will be carried out through the Technical General Secretariat on which they are organically dependent, without prejudice to the competences attributed to the Central Unit of the Paying Boxes in point 4 of the Order of 23 December 1987. '

Transitional disposition. Sub-box of the Directorate-General for Rural Development.

As long as the necessary legal procedures are used to ensure the proper continuity of the operation of the payment sub-box of the Directorate General for Rural Development, it will continue to operate under the same conditions. which to date.

Final disposition. Entry into force.

This Order shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the "Official State Gazette".

Madrid, 29 May 2003.

CANETE ARIAS