The Government Delegations are the channel through which the citizen comes into contact with the General Administration of the State to exercise his rights and civil liberties.

These offices carry out the functions of registration, attention to the citizen and information on procedures and services of the General Administration of the State and of the regional, local and institutional administrations.

* The registry assistance offices are administrative bodies, in accordance with Law 40/2015, of October 1, on the Legal Regime of the Public Sector.

Among others, they provide the following services:

• Information face-to-face, written, electronic and telephone.

• Reception, registration and submission of documentation addressed to any Public Administration.

• Issuance of certificates issued by the National Currency and Stamp Factory, class 2CA for natural persons and issuance of Cl@ve certificates.

• Management of “apud acta” and its registration in the Electronic Registry of Apoderamiento.

• Issuance of receipts relating to the applications and writings submitted, as well as the compulsa, where appropriate, of the documents attached to those applications.

• Issuance of sealed copies of original documents accompanying applications and writings.

• Receiving complaints, suggestions and complaints.

• Call informations of Jury Interpreters exams.

The General Secretariats of the Government Delegations are involved in the granting of authorizations in matters belonging to different ministerial departments, among which the following stand out:

• Explosives, pyrotechnics and cardboard: authorisation for use by companies in the sector.

• Arms: Authorization of shooting ranges and galleries, armouries, denials and revocations of weapons licences.

• Private security and citizen security: includes authorizations such as private armed surveillance services or authorization for municipalities to perform local police duties without uniforms.

Administrative authorizations in Delegations and Subdelegations

The Government Delegations and Sub-Delegations carry out procedures to guarantee the exercise of a series of fundamental rights and also have competences in the field of protection of citizen security.

• Procedures related to the law Fundamental of the meeting (Concentrations and manifestations).

• Organization of the electoral procedure.

• Free legal assistance.

• Processing of sanctioning procedures in respect of:

  • Citizen security.

  • Private security.

  • Sports shows.

  • Sale of precious metals.

• Suspension of sanctions by subjection to drug withdrawal treatment.
  • Administrative sanctions/infringements

The Provincial Jury of Forced Expropriation is a collegiate body of the General Administration of the State, presided over by a magistrate, which performs a function of an impartial nature to determine the fair price of the property to be expropriated when an agreement has not been reached between the parties to the compensation.

The secretariats of the Provincial Jurors of Forced Expropriation perform the following functions:

• Prior management of the proceedings of the Court of Justice.

• Request for documentation additional.

• Receipt of reports.

• Convocation of sessions and writing of minutess.

• Notifications.

• Processing of resources.

• Other functions that correspond to any secretary of a collegiate body.

Expropriations

The Civil Protection units coordinate the actions and provide technical advice in alert or emergency situations of national interest. In addition, they process state subsidies in the event of natural disasters.

In relation to the Entities that make up the Local Administration, it is carried out:

• Relations of cooperationn economic, technical, legal and administrative.

• Relations of information.

• Control of the legality of their acts.

Local Entities

Las Coordination Units against Violence against Women and Units against Violence against Womenthey monitor resources and the institutional response to gender-based violence against women: gender violence, trafficking, female genital mutilation, forced marriages.

They develop the following types of actions:

• Follow-up and coordination of the resources and services of the General Administration of the State for the care of situations of gender violence in the territory, also collaborating with the competent regional and local administrations in the field of gender violence.

• Personalized tracking of each situation of gender-based violence and support in its territory, as well as actions in relation to the victims of gender-based violence.

• Participation in the campaigns information, awareness-raising and prevention of gender-based violence, together with promotion and collaboration in the training of professionals.

• Actions relating to trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual exploitation as well as in the field of other forms of violence against women: female genital mutilation, forced marriages, etc.

The areas and dependencies perform, among others, the following functions:

• Health monitoring of live animals, products of animal origin not intended for human consumption and products intended for animal nutrition, both under import regime and under export regime and phytosanitary control in plant products, both under import regime and under export regime.
  • Sanitary Control of Products in Frontera

• Collaboration with the Spanish Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) in the management of public aid. Specifically, it is up to you:

• The identification and control of certain products benefiting from export refunds.

• To manage the processing of Agricultural Insurance subsidies, the control of aid from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF), as well as the processing of certain applications for credits, aid, certifications, licences and permits in the field of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

• Control of the courses Delivered within the multi-regional training programmes aimed at professionals in the rural environment.

• In terms of fishing, they carry out the Inspection and Collection of Penalties for Illegal Fishing in external waters, as well as the issuance of authorisations and certifications for the recognition of fishing equipment.

This Unit has two distinct functions, one of monitoring and analysing the educational system of the Autonomous Communities, and the other of management for the exercise of competences on the homologation of foreign degrees and studies:

• Management of titles: issuance, accreditation, homologation, equivalence, recognition and validation.
• Legalization of official university academic documents that must have effects abroad

They have the following functions:

• Monitoring of compliance with basic regulations of the curricula and educational regulations of the corresponding Autonomous Community.

• Information and processing of dossiers of Homologation and validation of foreign non-university degrees and studies.

• Information on approval/validation of foreign university degrees for academic purposes, as well as about the recognition and/or accreditation of university degrees and Vocational Training, and their professional effects in the European area and the competences of the Autonomous Community in Vocational Training.

• Recognition of equivalence of studies for work purposes.

• Management of the files of validation and homologation of foreign qualifications.

The areas and dependencies perform, among others, the following functions:

• Management of the services integrated transport and roads, performing functions of initiation and processing of sanctioning files, granting of authorizations, processing of applications for transport cards of complementary private service goods or processing of compensation files for patrimonial responsibility due to damages attributable to the state of the roads.

• Functions relating to public works and housing.

• Inspection and control of international transportin order to check whether freight vehicles comply with all the technical and administrative requirements for performing this function in the European Union.

• Monitoring of investments in the Spanish historical heritage Financed by the 1.5% cultural.

• In the Canary Islands and Balearic Islands, processing of the aid for the transport of goods.
  • Aid for transport Canary Islands
  • Support for transport Illes Balears

Within them, the National Geographic Institute, It provides technical assistance services in the field of geographic information and the marketing of cartographic products and carries out the control and maintenance of seismic networks and geodetic and levelling networks.

National Geographic Institute

It participates in the processing of various procedures in the field of energy installations, such as:

• Records relating to the start-up of power stations and power lines and gas pipelines, as well as their reform or extension.

• Declarations of public utility of gas pipelines, oil pipelines and electrical installations for the production and transport of electrical energy.

• Type-approval and standardisation procedures of industrial goods and products.

It also processes or reports on the granting of Authorizations on explosives, stationery and pyrotechnics, the issuance of certificates of suitability for the handling of explosives and performs tasks related to industrial property.

Administrative Authorizations in Delegations and Subdelegations

The areas and dependencies perform, among others, the following functions:

• Hygienic-sanitary control and surveillance on imports of products intended for human consumption.
  • Sanitary Control of Products in Frontera
• Traveller Advisory Service on health risks inherent in international travel and the administration of vaccines and other preventive or prophylactic measures for reasons of public health in the international trafficking of persons in International Vaccination Centres (CVI).
  • International Vaccination Centers
• Hygienic-sanitary controls: control and surveillance of ports, international traffic airports and international means of transport.
• Health Police Mortuoria: Control and monitoring of the international movement of corpses and human remains.
• Inspections of pharmaceutical products on the border of imports and exports and inspection of manufacturing and import facilities for health products, cosmetics and personal hygiene products.
• Management and control of drugs and narcotic substances Confiscated from illicit trafficking: analysis and issuance of reports for judicial and administrative proceedings.

The areas and dependencies perform the following functions:

Foreigners: The attention of immigrant citizens is done by thes Immigration Offices as units that make up the different services of the General Administration of the State competent in matters of foreigners and immigration at the provincial level.

Offices for Foreigners in the Government Delegations

Procedures for foreigners in an electronic office

Prior appointment of foreigners

They have the following functions:

• The processing of authorisations residence permits, work permits and exceptions to the obligation to obtain work permits, return permits, extensions of stay, alien identity cards and foreign student cards, as well as the issuance and delivery thereof.

• Receipt of the entry declaration.

• The receipt of the request of registration card and travel title for the departure from Spain, as well as its expedition and delivery.

• The processing of sanctioning procedures for infringements of the regulations on aliens and under Community law.

• The processing of administrative appeals let them proceed.

• The assignment and communication of a foreigner’s identity number, by the police services of the Offices themselves.

• The information, reception and processing of the request for international protection and applications for stateless persons.

• The collection and development of the statistical information set of an administrative and demographic nature on the foreign population and on a community basis in the province.

• The maintenance control of the conditions that determined the granting of the authorisation.

Certificates and aid for returning emigrants: Issuance of certificates for returning emigrants to Spain and information on the calls, requirements or deadlines for various grants and subsidies for emigrants and returnees. Processing of grants.

Processing and proposed resolution of processing salaries: resolution of the files of claim to the State of salaries processed in trials for dismissal and Social Security contributions.

Contracts at source for temporary contracts: management of the annual quota of non-Community foreign workers in the provinces where the Aliens Offices were not formally established.