Created by Decree Law of 3 December 1954, the General Inspection of Services in the Foreign Office was abolished by Decree 2764/1967 of 27 November.

Royal Decree 1485/1985, of 28 August, reintroduces in the structure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the General Inspection of Services as a dependent unit directly from the Secretariat of the Department.

It is therefore necessary to proceed to the adoption of a new Regulation of the General Inspection of Services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which meets the current requirements of rigour and effectiveness in the operation of the external service.

In his virtue, prior to the approval of the Minister for Public Administrations and with the favorable opinion of the Superior Commission of Personnel, I have had to dispose:

The Rules of Procedure of the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are hereby approved, the text of which is annexed to this Order.

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

What I communicate to V.E. for its knowledge and effects.

Madrid, 19 April 1994.

SOLANA MADARIAGA

Excmo. Mr Deputy Minister.

ATTACHED

Regulation of the General Inspection of Services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Article 1.

According to the provisions of Royal Decree 1485/1985 of 28 August, the General Inspectorate of Services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is organically dependent on the Secretariat and is constituted in an administrative unit. with an organic level of General Subdirection.

Article 2.

It is for the General Inspectorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to check the proper functioning of the services in the Diplomatic Missions, Consular Offices, Permanent Representations and Delegations, and External institutions and services under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Department's central organs.

For the development of your duties, you are responsible for the General Inspection of Services:

(a) Conduct regular or extraordinary inspection visits to the Diplomatic Missions, Permanent Representations, Consular Offices and Delegations, and Foreign Institutions and Services under the Ministry of External affairs, raising the relevant reports.

(b) Girar visits to the central organs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by raising the reports required for the operation thereof and the organization and performance of the service, without prejudice to the powers and powers of the Directorates-General of the Department.

c) Collaborate with the Coordinating Commission of the General Inspections of the State Administration, following its guidelines and providing the information that the agency requires in compliance with the provisions of the Royal Decree 3063/1978 of 10 November 1978.

(d) The performance of any other tasks of the inspection functions that the Secretary-General may specifically consider appropriate.

Article 3.

The reports of the General Inspection of Services referred to in paragraph (a) of the previous article shall include the following aspects, on which the Inspectorate may raise to the Under-Secretary the proposals it considers appropriate:

a) Objective and overall appreciation of the post visited by the inspection.

b) Ability and effectiveness of staff.

c) Adequation of personnel personnel to the needs of the post.

d) Level of rationality, effectiveness and simplification of systems, procedures and work organization.

e) Degree of compliance with the rules for the external service.

(f) State, conservation and security of the buildings of the Cancerilleries, Consular Offices and Residence of the Heads of Mission or General Consuls, as well as of the buildings of institutions and services on the outside of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

g) Other aspects that may involve a more efficient use of material and human resources and an improvement in the functioning of services.

Article 4.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs ' General Inspection of Services may raise observations and suggestions to the Deputy Secretary of the Department, which, following inspection visits abroad, may be appropriate for the Department of Foreign Affairs. better compliance with the objectives of coordination of all the organs of the State Administration abroad and of unity of action so that its actions abroad are in accordance with the foreign policy guidelines defined by the Government, as set out in Royal Decree 632/1987 of 8 May, on the organization of the State administration abroad.

Article 5.

The Chief Inspector General of Services shall, for approval, propose to the Deputy Secretary the annual calendar of the ordinary inspection visits. The Deputy Secretary shall determine the extraordinary nature and shall, where appropriate, determine the missions or studies to be carried out both abroad and in the central departments of the Ministry.

Article 6.

The Undersecretary of the Department will convene and chair regular meetings of coordination and follow-up of the activities of the General Inspectorate of Services with the Directors-General of the Ministry for the best development of their functions.

Article 7.

At the request of the Chief Inspector General of Services, the Deputy Secretary may provide that officials or technical experts who are dependent on the Directorate-General of the Foreign Service, the Directorate-General for Consular Affairs or of the Technical General Secretariat, provide assistance to the Inspectorate, where circumstances so require.

Article 8.

The General Inspection of Services will be heard in relation to the actions that the Department plans to carry out in terms of planning and reorganization of services, opening or closing of Diplomatic and Consular Missions and acquisition or reform of facilities abroad.

The deputy secretary may decide that the General Inspection of Services will be incorporated in the foreign missions related to the aforementioned topics and that the reports that are drafted in this regard will be sent to him for his knowledge.

Article 9.

The appointment of the Chief Inspector General of Services and the General Inspectors of Services shall be carried out in accordance with the procedure to determine the Relations of Work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Chief Inspector General will have the rank of Ambassador when he performs his duties abroad.

In any case, both the Chief Inspector General of Services and the Inspectors General will act in the performance of their mission with the authority directly conferred upon them by the Department's Assistant Secretary for their functions.

Article 10.

The Heads of Diplomatic Missions, Permanent Representations, Delegations, Consular Offices and Foreign Institutions and Services under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the staff to their orders and those responsible for the central services of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall provide the Chief Inspector General of Services and the General Inspectors of Services with the maximum collaboration, providing them with documents, information and démarches which are of use to them, without prejudice to provisions on classified information.

Article 11.

The proposals contained in the reports of the General Services, which have been approved by the Undersecretary will be communicated within a maximum of one month for their execution to the Directorates General or units (a) to provide information to the General Inspection Service on its compliance.

After a period to be determined in each case, but not more than six months after each inspection visit, the Under-Secretary shall proceed, together with the General Inspectorate of Services and the Directorates-General concerned, to assess the situation of the Units in respect of which the Inspectorate has made proposals, taking, if necessary, the measures to be taken accordingly.

For these purposes, the Assistant Secretary may seek the collaboration of the Directorates-General of the Foreign Service, Consular Affairs, the Technical General Secretariat and those other Directorates-General of the Department that (a)

Article 12.

The General Inspectorate of Services in its visits will also be interested in the forms of cooperation of the Diplomatic Missions, Permanent Representations, Consular Offices, Delegations and Institutions and Services in the The Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence Policy and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence Policy and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence Policy.