1. The General Administration and the public bodies linked or dependent to it may conclude collaboration agreements with the corresponding bodies of the Administrations of the Autonomous Communities within the scope of their respective competences.

2. The instruments for formalising the Conventions shall specify, where appropriate:

(a) The bodies that conclude the convention and the legal capacity with which each of the parties acts.

b) The competence exercised by each Administration.

(c) Its financing.

d) The actions that it is agreed to develop for its compliance.

e) The need or not to establish an organization for its management.

f) The term of validity, which will not prevent its extension if agreed by the parties signing the agreement.

g) Extinction for reasons other than the one provided in the previous section, as well as the way to end the proceedings in progress for the event of extinction.

3. When a joint monitoring and control body is established, it will resolve the problems of interpretation and compliance that may arise with regard to collaboration agreements.

4. When the conventions are limited to establishing guidelines of political guidance on the action of each Administration on an issue of common interest or to establishing the general framework and methodology for the development of collaboration in an area of interrelationship of competence or in a matter of mutual interest, they will be called General Protocols.

5. When the management of the agreement makes it necessary to create a common organisation, it may take the form of a consortium with a legal personality or a commercial company.

The statutes of the consortium will determine the purposes of the consortium, as well as the particularities of the organic, functional and financial regime.

The decision-making bodies shall be composed of representatives of all the consortium entities, in the proportion to be fixed in the respective Statutes.

Any of the forms provided for in the legislation applicable to the Consortium Administrations may be used for the management of the services entrusted to it. (Article drafted according to Law 4/1999, of January 13)