Its functions are those provided for in the Operating Rules of 25 November 2005:
- To examine, debate and, where appropriate, reach agreements on initiatives and issues that do not have a multilateral body for their treatment.
- Promote and concretize, from a bilateral point of view, those instruments of collaboration that allow the realization of joint initiatives of mutual interest.
- Analyze the transfers of functions and services to the Autonomous Community, either to propose solutions to the problems raised in those already agreed, or to establish the priority and schedule of negotiation of new transfers.
- To serve as a channel for preventive actions that avoid the formalization of competitive disputes.
- To examine and, where appropriate, agree on the actions that allow the extra-procedural resolution of positive conflicts of competence and unconstitutionality remedies.
- Analyze the norms with the rank of law, likely to give rise to the approach of an appeal of unconstitutionality, in order to reach an agreement that avoids their interposition, as established in article 33.2 LOTC