The Sectoral Conference for Local Affairs is the highest body of cooperation between the State and the Autonomous Communities and its purpose is to allow the debate and concertation of local policy.

The Sectoral Conference for Local Affairs (CSAL) is the highest collegiate body for cooperation, meeting and deliberation, for the articulation of relations between the General Administration of the State, the Autonomous Communities and the Local Governments, whose primary purpose is to achieve maximum coherence in the determination and implementation of the policies adopted by the State and the Autonomous Communities in the field of government and local administration.

It is chaired by the head of the Ministry that has attributed these functions, and its members are the Councillors responsible for Local Administration in each Autonomous Community and the representatives designated by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces.