The Commission for the Reform of Public Administrations (CORA) was created by the Council of Ministers Agreement of 26 October 2012, with the aim of converting our public administrations into a factor of competitiveness of the Spanish economy, for which it proposed more than two hundred measures to rationalize structures, procedures and resources, reflected in its final report presented to the Government of Spain in June 2013.

More than half of these measures are, directly or indirectly, actions related to Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), input whose multiplier effect on productivity has been endorsed by many studies demonstrating a strong correlation between this digitisation process and the improvements in global competitiveness and productivity of societies and countries. It can therefore be said that the CORA report pursues, in a determined manner, the acceleration of the digitisation process of the Spanish public administrations as a whole.

One of the most important actions already undertaken in this line, is the implementation of a new model of ICT Governance in the General Administration of the State (AGE), developed first, with the creation, through Royal Decree 695/2013, of 20 September, amending Royal Decree 199/2012, of 23 January, for which the basic organic structure of the Ministry of the Presidency is developed and amended Royal Decree 1887/2011, of 30 December, establishing the basic organic structure of the ministerial departments, of a New management body with transversal competences for all the AGE and its public bodies: the Information and Communications Technologies Directorate (DTIC), with the rank of Sub-Secretariat organically integrated in the Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations as stated in Royal Decree 256/2012 of 27 January, for which the basic organic structure of the Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations is developed.

And, second, through the organic development of this new governance model, through Royal Decree 806/2014 of 19 September, on the organisation and operational instruments of information technologies and the communications in the General Administration of the State and its public bodies, which, together with the figure already mentioned in the DTIC, defines a series of collegiate bodies and units that will implement the policies of rationalization and transformation of the ICT in the field of AGE and its public bodies.

Among these bodies will be the Digital Administration's Ministerial Commissions, which will inherit from the current Ministerial Electronic Administration Commissions, which will become the units responsible for implementing the ministerial level, the common ICT policies previously defined by the competent bodies, as well as to promote the digital transformation of each ministerial department and its public bodies attached to it.

In its virtue, with the prior approval of the Minister of Finance and Public Administrations, I have:

Article 1. Object, membership and scope of action.

1. The purpose of this order is the creation and regulation of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, which is set up as the collegiate body responsible for the promotion and coordination of the Ministry of Health. the Department and its public bodies in the field of digital administration and is set up as liaison body with the Information and Communications Technologies Directorate (DTIC) and with other specialised bodies or commissions in matter.

2. The Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality's Digital Management Ministerial Commission is attached to the Department's Secretariat.

3. Its scope of action shall cover all the bodies of the Ministry and its public bodies attached.

Article 2. Composition and operation.

1. The Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality (Commission)'s Digital Management Ministerial Commission (hereinafter referred to as the Commission) acts in plenary and in the Standing Committee.

2. Both the plenary and the standing committee will be validly constituted, on first call, when the persons holding the Presidency and the Secretariat are present, or those who replace them in their case, and in addition, half of their number total members. On the second call, the same criterion will be followed as for the plenary session, as far as the Presidency and the Secretariat are concerned, but three vowels will suffice.

3. In the event of an absence, vacancy, illness or other duly justified legal cause of the person holding the Presidency, the person holding the Vice-Presidency shall exercise that function and the member of the highest-ranking collegiate body, in his absence, shall exercise that function, age and age, by this order, from among its components.

4. The plenary session shall meet at least once a year with a call from the person holding the Presidency either on its own initiative or at least half of its members.

5. The Standing Committee shall meet at least quarterly on the occasion of the Presidency, although the Chair may convene it on an extraordinary basis where necessary.

Article 3. Full.

1. The plenary session will have the following composition:

(a) Presidency: The titular person of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality.

b) Vice-Presidency: The person holding the General Information Technology Subdirectorate (SGTI) of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality.

c) Vocals: The persons holding the organs listed below, and who in any case will have to rank, at least, as Director General:

1) The holder of the Cabinet Directorate of the person holding the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality.

2) A representative of each of the Secretaries of State, General Secretaries and public bodies attached to the Department.

(d) Secretariat: An official or official designated by the head of the SGTI of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, who shall have a voice but no vote.

2. All vocalias shall be designated by the person holding the Department's Deputy Secretary on the proposal of the persons holding the upper or managerial bodies of which the appointed persons are dependent.

For each vowel, and for the same procedure, an alternate shall be appointed and must have at least the rank of Subdirector-General or assimilated.

Article 4. Standing Committee.

1. The Standing Committee shall have the following composition:

(a) Presidency: The head of the SGTI of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality.

b) Vice-Presidency: An official of the Deputy Secretary-General appointed by the Chair of the Permanent Commission.

(c) Vocals: They shall act as the vocal representatives of each of the ICT units of the Department, which shall be designated by the persons holding the governing bodies or centres to which they belong.

(d) Secretariat: An official or official from the SGTI of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, appointed by the Chair of the Standing Committee, with a voice but without a vote.

e) Technical advice: Any of the vowels, on a proposal from their management body, may attend the meetings of the Standing Committee together with persons who are experts in the subjects to be treated and who meet the status of a public employee, who shall act with a voice but without a vote.

2. Alternate members and alternate members shall be appointed by the same persons referred to above for cases of absence, disease, vacancy, or situations with justified reasons.

3. Meetings may be held presentially or electronically through computer collaboration tools.

Article 5. Functions of the plenary and of the Standing Committee.

1. The plenary session shall carry out the following tasks:

a) Act as a relationship organ between the Department and its public bodies, and the DTIC, to ensure coordination with the criteria and policies defined by it.

b) To promote, implement and monitor, in the field of the Department, the implementation of the guidelines and the follow-up of the guidelines of action set out in the ICT Strategy of the General Administration of the State and its agencies public approved by the Government on a proposal from the ICT Strategy Committee.

c) Approve the Department's Action Plan for progressive digital transformation, lasting at least biennial, as provided for in Article 14.2 of Royal Decree 806/2014 of 19 September on organisation and operational instruments of information and communications technologies in the General Administration of the State and its public bodies.

d) To promote the digitisation of the Department's services and procedures in order to homogenize, simplify, improve its quality and ease of use, as well as the benefits offered to individuals and companies, optimizing the use of the available ICT resources and periodically evaluating the progress of the Department of Action Plan for digital transformation.

e) To collaborate with the DTIC in the identification and sharing of the human, material and economic resources that are attached to the Department and its public bodies assigned to it and which must be used for the the implementation or maintenance of the shared media or services, proposing to the DTIC the shared use of services or information systems resources and communications from the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality or of its public bodies attached.

f) Approve instructions or guidelines for the application of new organizational or operating criteria, the implementation of new procedures or the revision of existing ones in the Department, in the framework of the Department's action for digital transformation.

g) Support or collaborate in the implementation of the Action Plans for equal opportunities for women and men in the Information Society in all aspects related to the Commission's own functions.

h) Any other function that is attributed to it by applicable regulations.

2. The Standing Committee shall have the following functions:

a) Analyse the functional needs of the management units of the Department and its public bodies assigned and evaluate the different solution alternatives proposed by the ICT units, identifying the opportunities the efficiency improvement that ICT can bring, applying solutions already developed in the field of the public sector and estimating costs in human and material resources that the associated ICT developments can assume.

b) Having knowledge of all procurement and award proposals related to information and communications technologies and receiving information from the managing bodies about their relationship with the proposal of the Department of Action Plan for digital transformation prior to its referral to the DTIC, in order to make effective the function provided for in the previous letter and those involving the coordination of information on ICT procurement.

c) Support ICT units in assessing the alignment of their files with the Department of Action Plan for digital transformation, in advance of the report's request to the DTIC.

d) Report the projects of general provisions, agreements, collaboration agreements, instructions and circulars of the Department, preparing a report on the opportunity of the measure, the costs, the need of human resources and development times that can be derived from project approval, from the perspective of the use of ICT media and services. This report will be referred to the DTIC for knowledge and assessment.

e) To elaborate the proposal of the Plan of Action of the Department for digital transformation, based on the proposals of the various higher bodies and managers, and public bodies of the Ministry of Health, Services Social and Equality and what is indicated in the Strategic Plan of the ICT approved by the Council of Ministers.

f) Develop a report on the progress of the Department of Action Plan for digital transformation, which includes the status of the actions planned and the hiring carried out, for presentation to the Full.

g) Keep up to date an inventory of information and communications systems services or resources for the preparation and transfer to the plenary of proposals for declaration of services or shared resources in the field of the General administration of the State, without prejudice to the competences that correspond to DTIC.

(h) To prepare, for approval by the plenary, the instructions or guidelines of organization or operation that are necessary for the digitisation of the services and procedures of the Department for the purpose of homogenize them, simplify them, and improve their quality and ease of use.

i) To prepare, for approval by the plenary, proposals on strategic technological projects for the improvement of the services to the individuals provided by the Ministry and its Public Bodies attached.

j) Coordinate the collection, aggregation and incorporation of the information required by the DTIC and ensure the accuracy and completeness of the data pertaining to the Department and its public bodies assigned to it.

Article 6. Request for information.

The Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality's Ministerial Committee for Digital Administration, for the exercise of its functions, may collect as much information as it deems accurate from all units, organs and agencies. The Ministry of Public Health, which will be obliged to provide it, in accordance with the current legislation.

Additional disposition first. Powers of development.

The holder of the Department's Deputy Secretary may issue the necessary instructions for the proper enforcement of this order.

Additional provision second. No increase in public spending.

The operation of the Digital Administration Ministerial Commission will not increase any public expenditure and will be addressed with the material and personnel resources available in the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality.

Single repeal provision. Regulatory repeal.

There is no effect on any provisions of the same or lower rank which are contrary to the provisions of this order, and in particular the Order of 9 November 1991, which is regulated by the Commission of Informatics of the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs.

Single end disposition. Entry into force.

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

Madrid, 10 September 2015.-The Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality, Alfonso Alonso Aranegui.