(f) Develop, within the framework of existing legislation, how many other activities can contribute to the fulfilment of their aims.ģ.
d) Carry out and disseminate studies relevant to the progress of the least developed countries.Į) Participate in the defense and dissemination of the Spanish language and other Spanish languages. (a) Promote, coordinate and implement development cooperation programmes and projects in the economic, cultural, scientific and technical fields.ī) Promote and tender for the implementation of programmes that, with matching objectives, can establish other national and international public and private bodies.Ĭ) Support and encourage public or private initiatives that contribute to the achievement of the Agency's objectives. The Agency, for the purposes of the above mentioned purposes, is expressly empowered to perform the following functions: (b) To foster closer ties of understanding and cooperation between developed countries, especially those integrated in the European Union, and the countries referred to in the previous paragraph.Ģ. It is for the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, without prejudice to the powers of the various ministerial departments and the entities and bodies attached thereto, to achieve the following purposes:Ī) To foster economic growth and social, cultural, institutional and political progress in developing countries, and especially those with a Hispanic ascendant. The Agency, which has legal personality, its own patrimony and ability to act for the purpose of its purposes, is governed by the Law on the Legal Regime of the Autonomous State Entities, in the General Budget Law, in the other implementing provisions for the autonomous bodies of the State Administration and in this Royal Decree.ġ. The Ministry to which the agency is attached shall approve the objectives of its action plans and shall have the task of carrying out audits to verify the degree of implementation of the projects and the effectiveness of the development of their functions.ģ.
The Spanish Agency for International Cooperation is an autonomous agency of the State Administration, attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Secretariat of State for International Cooperation and for Latin America, and classified as provided for in Article 4 (1) (a) of the General Budget Law.Ģ. Nature, classification and legal status.ġ. Under the terms of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, on a proposal from the Ministers of Public and Economic Affairs and Finance, and after deliberation by the Council of Ministers at its meeting on ,Īrticle 1. On the other hand, Article 76 of Law 42/1994 of 30 December 1994 of Tax, Administrative and Social Measures empowers the Government to use Royal Decree, at the joint proposal of the Ministries for the Public and Economic and Finance Administrations, and in agreement with the Department concerned, the regulation of autonomous bodies and public entities should be recast or amended. To this end, its two management centers are placed under the immediate dependence of the Executive Vice President. In turn, the Executive Vice-President of the Agency, who will serve as the Vice Chair of its Management Committee, will be in charge of the day-to-day management of the Board. In addition, to achieve greater coherence between the work of the Secretariat of State for International Cooperation and for Latin America and the Agency, the Secretary of State for International Cooperation and for Ibero-America both the Presidency of the Agency and its Management Committee. The need to speed up and make more operational the operation of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation, whose basic regulations were contained in the Royal Decrees 1527/1988, of 11 November, and 2492/1994, of 23 of December, advises a remodel of its governing bodies, which will henceforth be structured around a President, an Executive Vice President and a Management Committee.