Provincial Government of Gipuzkoa

Departments - Governance and Communication with Society

Functions and areas of activity

  1. Provincial Council Governing Body Secretariat.
  2. Coordination of relations and communications between the Provincial Council, the Provincial Parliament and the Basque Ombudsman's Office.
  3. Internal control of legality, general legal advice, and representation and defense in court of the Provincial Council and its bodies.
  4. The powers of the Provincial Council in the following areas related to Local Administration: municipal and supra-municipal territorial demarcations, Provincial Registry of Local Entities of Gipuzkoa, Local Administration civil servants with national authorization and advice.
  5. Interdepartmental coordination for the development of the regulatory calendar.
  6. Those corresponding to the Provincial Council as the administration calling the elections to the General Assemblies of the Historical Territory of Gipuzkoa.
  7. Registers of Activities and Assets and Interests of the Foral Public Sector.
  8. Gipuzkoa Official Gazette.
  9. Public function.
  10. Public contracting.
  11. Good governance and institutional integrity.
  12. Policies of innovation and transformation of the administration.
  13. Electronic and digital administration.
  14. Organization and information systems.
  15. General services.
  16. mobile park.
  17. Foral printing and publishing activity.
  18. Coordination on transparency.
  19. Citizen participation.
  20. Prevention, fire fighting and rescue.
  21. Assistance, support and coordination of the ArantzazuLab reference center.
  22. The other faculties attributed to it by the applicable regulations.
     

The Department of Governance will provide the necessary material and personal resources to the Legal Advisory Commission of the Historical Territory of Gipuzkoa, the Foral Administrative Court of Contractual Appeals, the Institutional Ethics Commission of the public sector foral of the Historical Territory of Gipuzkoa and the Commission of Claims regarding Transparency.

The foral public company “Informatika Zerbitzuen Foru Elkartea - Sociedad Foral de Servicios Informáticos SA” (Izfe SA), and the public foral foundation “Fundación Sueskola Gipuzkoa Fundazioa” are attached to this department.

 

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