Autonomous Communities Administration

<h2 id="structure">Structure</h2>
<p>Like the <a href="/facts/General_State_Administration/Ac9leMMj">General State Administration</a>, the Autonomous Administration is regulated by Law 40/2015 and the structure is practically the same.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> However, it can vary from one Autonomous Community to another depending on the provisions in the Statute of Autonomy. Here the common organs are exposed:
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<h3>Central Organization</h3>
<h4>Government</h4>
<p>The Autonomous Government is the executive power of the <a href="/facts/Autonomous_community_of_Spain/tkAEH5bh">Autonomous Community</a>. As in the <a href="/facts/Government_of_Spain/T8fRrnWa">Central Government</a> it responds before its <a href="/facts/Parliament/n2zfmmBC">parliament</a> (autonomic parliament). The Government directs the Autonomous Administration within its competences.
</p><p>Contrary to what happens with the Central Government, the decisions taken by the Executive are not sanctioned by the <a href="/facts/King_of_spain/6raU7qTs">King</a>, and it is the President of the Autonomous Community who signs the laws and decisions on his behalf.
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<h4>President</h4>
<p>The President of the Autonomous Community is the head of the executive power as well as the highest authority of the Autonomous Community. He directs the Autonomous Government, elects its vice president and Councilors and decides the policies that the government carries out.
</p><p>As at the State level, the President may elect more than one Vice President and may freely separate his Vice Presidents and Councilors. If the President is ceased, they cease with him.
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<h4>Councilors</h4>
<p>The Councilors of the Autonomous Community are like the <a href="/facts/Minister_(government)/URxFu4Pk">Ministers</a> of the Central Government. They lead a <i>Consejería</i> (government department as a <a href="/facts/Ministry_(government_department)/StaW70TJ">Ministry</a>). Councilor work in their governmental area and appoint the members of their department like Vice Councilors, Directors-General, etc.
</p><p>The figure of the Vice Councilor or Deputy Councilor is not always present, because it is the decision of the Councilor to exist or not this position and, in Autonomous Communities of small size where the work is not much, often these positions do not exist.
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<h4>Directors-General</h4>
<p>The Directorates-General are management departmental bodies and steering bodies, hierarchically inferior to the Councilors or Vice Councilors (if they exist). The holder must have a degree of competence and professional experience, and will be selected from career officials of the State, Autonomous Communities or Local entities, also demanding the title of Doctor, Licensee, Engineer, Architect or equivalent. The Royal Decree on the structure of the department may omit the first requirement because it is a Directorate-General whose exceptional characteristics require that the holder does not have the status of official of the State.
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<h4>Cabinets</h4>
<p>They are consultation bodies generally composed of a technical secretary and several technicians who support the President, Vice President, Councilors, etc. in their relations with institutions, in making decisions and performing special advisory tasks in a particular branch of knowledge.
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<h3>Peripheral Administration</h3>
<h4>Territorial Delegations</h4>
<p>The Territorial Delegations of the Autonomous Communities carry out the same activity as the Delegations of the Central Government. They are administrative bodies whose head is a high position appointed in the discretion of the Autonomous Government. He is in charge of the management of the Autonomous Administration in some of the territorial divisions of the Autonomous Communities, such as the <a href="/facts/Provinces_of_Spain/nw4PG6nM">Province</a>.
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<h4>Sectoral Delegations</h4>
<p>The Sectoral Delegations of the Consejerías are organs that represent the different Departments of an autonomous government. The holder must have a degree of competence and professional experience, and will be selected from career officials of the State, Autonomous Communities or Local entities, also demanding the title of Doctor, Licensee, Engineer, Architect or equivalent
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170805182054/http://www.seat.mpr.gob.es/portal/areas/politica_autonomica/info_basica/organiz_institucional_basica.html">Organization of each Autonomous Community</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170805181708/http://www.seat.mpr.gob.es/portal/areas/politica_autonomica/Estatutos_Autonomia/est_autonomia.html">Statutes of Autonomy of each Autonomous Community</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Public_Administration_of_Spain/AJLMEy4u">Public Administration of Spain</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/General_State_Administration/Ac9leMMj">General State Administration</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Government_of_Spain/T8fRrnWa">Government of Spain</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Singular_population_entity/M5zfe17J">Singular population entities</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Ley 40/2015, de 1 de octubre, de Régimen Jurídico del Sector Público. <a href="https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2015-10566" target="_blank">https://www.boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-2015-10566</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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