Deputy Technical General Secretary

The Deputy Secretary-General for Technical Affairs, attached to the General Technical Secretariat, performs the following functions:

• The elaboration and proposal of the normative plan of the department and the coordination and promotion of its implementation.

• The study, report and, where appropriate, elaboration of the normative projects that it is appropriate to dictate or propose to the department, as well as its administrative processing, with the exception of the procedures of public consultation, hearing of the interested parties and public information provided in article 26 of Law 50/1997, of 27 November, of the Government, which will correspond to the competent management centers.

• The preparation of reports on normative projects of other departments.

• The preparation, report and assistance to the Minister and the Under-Secretary in relation to matters to be submitted to the Council of Ministers, the Government Delegated Commissions and the General Commission of Secretaries of State and Under-Secretaries.

• Actions related to the publication of administrative provisions and acts of the department and of the agencies and entities attached to it in the Official State Gazette.

• The actions derived from the participation of the department in the Commission for Follow-up of Provisions and Acts of the Autonomous Communities and the coordination of the actions of the different governing bodies of the department related to the transfer of functions and services to the autonomous communities.

• Administrative support to the Scientific, Technological and Innovation Policy Council, the Advisory Council on Science, Technology and Innovation and the Spanish Research Ethics Committee.

• Administrative support for cooperation with the autonomous communities and local corporations in research, development and innovation policy, without prejudice to the competences attributed to other bodies of the department.

• The implementation of the administrative actions necessary for the management of the national awards in the field of research and innovation and design.

Deputy General Technical Secretary:Enrique J. Fernández