National Statistics Institute

1. The National Statistics Institute, under the Ley 12/1989, de 9 de mayo, de la Función Estadística Pública ("the Government Statistics Act"), is an autonomous body of those contemplated in title III, chapter II of the Ley 6/1997, de 14 de abril, de Organización y Funcionamiento de la Administración General del Estado ("the Organisational Structure and Functioning of Central Government Act"), attached to the Ministry of Economy and Finance through the Secretariat of State for the Economy.
2. The Ministry of Economy and Finance, through the Secretariat of State for the Economy, is tasked with the strategic management, assessment and oversight of the outcome of the Institute's operations, without prejudice to the powers vested in the Intervención General de la Administración del Estado ("the Comptroller and Auditor General") to assess and monitor the results of public bodies within the central government public sector.
3. The Instituto Nacional de Estadística has a distinct public legal personality, its own property and treasury, and independent management and full legal capacity to act, and, within the scope of its concern, is vested in government powers as required to fulfil its purposes, except the power to expropriate. The Instituto Nacional de Estadística is governed by the Government Statistics Act; the Organisational Structure and Functioning of Central Government Act; the Ley 30/1992, de 26 de noviembre, de Régimen Jurídico de las Administraciones Públicas y del Procedimiento Administrativo Común ("the Administrative Procedure Act"); the revised, consolidated text of the Ley de Contratos de las Administraciones Públicas ("the Public Procurement Act") as approved by Royal Legislative Decree 2/2000 of 16 June 2000; the revised, consolidated text of the Ley General Presupuestaria ("the General Budget Act"), as approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1091/1988 of 23 September 1988; Decree 1022/1964 of 15 April 1964, enacting the Ley de Patrimonio del Estado ("the State Property Act"); and the rest of statutory provisions applicable to the autonomous bodies of central government.

1. The National Statistics Institute shall exercise the functions of overall coordination of the statistical units of central government, vigilance, monitoring and oversight of the technical duties of central government statistical units, and the rest of duties specified in the Government Statistics Act.
2. In order to carry on its technical duties and maintain statistical confidentiality, INE shall be vested in the powers required to ensure its operational impartiality.

The governing bodies of the National Statistics Institute are:

1. The Governing Board.
2. The President.

1. The Board of Management will be formed of the President, the General Managers, the Deputy General Manager of Economic Accounts and Employment, the Deputy General Manager of Company Statistics, the Deputy General Manager of Sociodemographic Statistics, the Deputy General Manager of Sampling and Data Collection, the General Secretariat and the Head of the Office of the President, who will act as Secretary (Section edited pursuant to Royal Decree 950/2009, of 5 June)..
2. The Governing Board shall:
   1. set the goals of the Institute in the technical, organisational and management fields for carrying on the functions and powers with which it is vested under the Government Statistics Act, and assess and propose the resources required;
   2. approve the activity report, the annual operation plans of the Institute and of the Oficina del Censo Electoral ("the Electoral Census Office"), and the budget proposal;
   3. regularly take reports and briefs on the activities and results of all units and decide the measures required for the proper running of the Institute's business;
   4. advise the President on matters on which he/she must decide;
   5. lay before the collegiate statistical bodies created under the Government Statistics Act the draft national statistical plan, the draft annual statistical plan under article 8(2) of the Act, and the rest of statistical projects for central government purposes; and
   6. approve the Board's own rules of procedure
3. The rules of procedure and resolutions of the Governing Board shall be those stipulated as generally applicable under title II, chapter II of the Administrative Procedure Act, as amended by the Ley 4/1999, de 13 de enero
4. As a supporting body of the Governing Board, the Committee of Sub-Directors General shall comprise all sub-directors general in the Institute and shall discuss any matters submitted for its consideration by the President. The Committee shall regularly appraise the activities of all units of the Institute.

1. The President shall have the rank of Under-Secretary and be appointed and removed by the Cabinet under a Royal Decree at the proposal of the Minister of Economy and Finance.
2. The President shall:
   1. act as legal representative of the Institute;
   2. act as Chair of the Governing Board, the Interministerial Statistics Committee and Comité Interterritorial de Estadística ("the Interterritorial Statistics Committee"), and as Vice Chair of the Higher Statistical Council;
   3. ensure proper performance of the national statistical plan;
   4. exercise the power to impose penalties prescribed under article 48(3) of the Government Statistics Act;
   5. enter into contract on behalf of the Institute, control expenditure and order payments, and render accounts;
   6. act as head of the Electoral Census Office and ensure the proper implementation of the power vested therein by the Ley Orgánica 5/1985, de 19 de junio, del Régimen Electoral ("the Electoral Act"), under the management and oversight of the Junta Electoral Central (the Spanish board of elections);
   7. see to the proper running of all units of the Institute in the performance of the duties and implementation of the powers therein vested by the Government Statistics Act; and
   8. perform any other duties assigned to him/her by the Government Statistics Act, or by any other laws and regulations.
3. In case of absence, vacancy or illness, he or she will be substituted by the General Managers in the order in which they appear in the established structure of the Regulations of the National Statistics Institute.
   
   Substitution does not entail a change in jurisdiction. (Section added by Royal Decree 950/2009, of 5 June)..

1. The organic structure of the National Statistics Institute is composed by the following organs, that depend on the President of the Institute:
   1. Directorate General of Methodology, Quality and Information and Communications Technology, on which the following depend:

      Subdirectorate-General of Standards and Training.

      Subdirectorate-General for Information and Communications Technology.

   2. Directorate General of Planning, Coordination and Statistical Dissemination, on which the following depend:

      Subdirectorate-General for Statistical Dissemination.

      Subdirectorate-General for International Relations.

2. Similarly, they form part of the organisational structure of the National Statistics Institute and the following units are directly dependent on the President, all with the rank of Deputy General Manager:
   1. Subdirectorate-General for Economic Accounts and Employment.
   2. Subdirectorate-General for Labour Market Statistics.
   3. Subdirectorate-General for Company Statistics.
   4. Subdirectorate-General for Structural and Environmental Statistics
   5. Subdirectorate-General for Short-Term Statistics and Prices.
   6. Subdirectorate-General for Sociodemographic Statistics.
   7. Subdirectorate-General for Sectoral Social Statistics.
   8. Subdirectorate-General for Population Statistics.
   9. Subdirectorate-General for Sampling and Data Collection
   10. General Secretariat.
   11. Electoral Census Office.
   12. Office of the President.
3. The Delegate Agency is organically attached to the President, with the level determined in the corresponding list of work posts, without prejudice to its functional attachment to the General State Administration Intervention in the terms established in the specific applicable regulations.
4. The Agency is attached to the President, without prejudice to its organic and functional attachment to the General State Council- Directorate-General of the State Legal Service, Legal Department, in line with the terms envisaged in Law 52/1997, of 27 November, on Legal Assistance for the State and Public Institutions, with the functions assigned by the specific applicable norms, and whose level will be determined in the corresponding list of work posts.
5. Provincial Delegations and the Delegations of Ceuta and Melilla are part of the structure of the National Statistics Institute, as established in article 10 of these Regulations.
6. The INE's Provincial Delegates Commission, comprising the INE's provincial delegates, will collaborate with the Board of Management, acting as the forum for debating all issues that affect the good operation of the organism. The Delegates Commission will work in Plenary Session and via a Permanent Commission.

1. The following functions correspond to the Directorate General of Methodology, Quality and Information and Communications Technology:
   1. Systematic monitoring of the quality of results and processess, identification and validation of methodologies necessary for guaranteeing this quality and the improvement of temporal or spatial coverage of the results.
   2. The driving and coordination of innovations necessary for optimising quality and efficiency of products and statistical processes, particularly in order to reduce costs and the response workload for informants.
   3. Research into survey production methods and compilation of prototypes which help to identify and test new statistical products, particularly those geared towards approximating emerging phenomena.
   4. The compilation of plans and the coordination of actions necessary for improving the use of administrative records with the objective of reducing the statistical workload generated for companies and households.
   5. Management and compilation of the system for nomenclatures, definitions and generally the development of metadata systems.
   6. Training and professional education, on statistical subjects.
   7. The development and maintenance of information and communication technologies necessary for the body.
2. Subdirectorate-General for Standards and Training.

   Adaptation and maintenance of nomenclatures, definitions, metadata systems, and training and professional education in statistics correspond to the Subdirectorate-General for Standards and Training. In particular, the School of Statistics of the Public Administrations is attached to this Subdirectorate-General.

3. Subdirectorate-General for Information and Communications Technology.

   Development and maintainance of computer systems and IT applications, management and coordination of communications and technical assistance in other units of the body correspond to the Subdirectorate-General for Information and Communications Technology.

1. The following functions correspond to the Directorate General of Planning, Coordination and Statistical Dissemination:
   1. The compilation and monitoring of the National Statistical Plan and its annual programmes.
   2. Fostering of statistical activities by General Administration of the State and coordination of the National Statistical System.
   3. Cooperation development with the statistics offices of the Autonomous Communities.
   4. The relationship with other statistical services of the other Public Administrations.
   5. The information, promotion and dissemination of the Institute's products.
   6. Coordination of cooperation activities and international relations.
2. Subdirectorate-General for Statistical Dissemination.

   The functions of designing and implementing the dissemination of the Institute's products and services, the standardisation of institutional designs, the compilation of publications, development and maintenance of the website and of user services, and the marketing of the Institute's products ans services correspond to the General Statistical Dissemination Subdirectorate.

3. Subdirectorate-General for International Relations.

   The Subdirectorate-General for International Relations is in charge of coordinating the Institute's international activities, without prejudice to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsibilities in the coordination of the actions of the organs of the State General Administration in the international sphere.

1. Subdirectorate-General for Economic Accounts and Employment.

   The following functions correspond to the Subdirectorate-General for Economic Accounts and Employment:

   1. The driving and monitoring of activities relating to the compilation of the economic accounts and estatistics on employment.
   2. The performing of tasks relating to the compilation of the central framework of the national, annual and quarterly, and regional systems of accounts, as well as the accounting subsystems derived thereof; and the analysis of sources and of information relating to economic statistics.
   3. Deputy General Manager for Economic Accounts and Employment performs coordination tasks on the Subdirectorate-General for Labour Market Statistics in relation to the entire st atisitical production of these two Subdirectorates.
2. Subdirectorate-General for Labour Market Statistics.

   The Subdirectorate-General for Labour Market Statistics is in charge of the promotion, compilation and analysis of short-term and structural statistics on the labour market, including statistics on labour costs and wage structure. Similarly, it is also in charge of harmonising the labour market indicators in the supranational, national and regional spheres.

3. Subdirectorate-General for Company Statistics.

   The following functions correspond to the Subdirectorate-General for Company Statistics:

   1. The driving and monitoring of production activities relating to all company statistics.
   2. The promotion, compilation and analysis of the censuses of an economic nature and the company statistics of a cross-sectional nature.
   3. The Deputy General Manager for Company Statisticsperforms coordination tasks on the Subdirectorate-General for Structural and Environmental Statistics and on the Subdirectorate-General for Short-Term and Price Statistics in relation to the entire statistical production of these three Subdirectorates.
4. Subdirectorate-General for Structural and Environmental Statistics

   The promotion, implementation and analysis of statistics not of a short-term nature regarding the different economic sectors, as well as environmental statistics correspond to the Subdirectorate-General for Structural and Environmental Statistics.

5. Subdirectorate-General for Short-Term Statistics and Prices.

   The promotion, implementation and analysis of the statistics on consumer prices, the prices of other goods and services transactions, purchasing power parities, as well as short-term statistics on production, activity and prices of the different economic sectors correspond to the Subdirectorate-General for Short-Term and Price Statistics.

6. Subdirectorate General for Sociodemographic Statistics.

   The following functions correspond to the Subdirectorate-General for Sociodemographic Statistics:

   1. The driving and monitoring of production activities relating to all sociodemographic statistics.
   2. The promotion, compilation and analysis of living conditions of the population statistics.
   3. Deputy General Manager for Sociodemographic Statistics performs coordination tasks on the Subdirectorate-General for Sectoral Social Statistics and on the Subdirectorate-General for Statistics on the Population in relation to the entire statistical production of these three Subdirectorates.
7. Subdirectorate-General for Sectoral Social Statistics.

   The promotion, compilation and analysis of statistics linked to education, culture, health and safety pf persons and other matters of social concern correspond to the Subdirectorate-General for Sectoral Social Statistics.

8. Subdirectorate-General for Statistics on the Population.

   The compiling of population and housing censuses corresponds to the Subdirectorate-General for Statistics on the Population; population flow and structure statistics in relation to their demographic characteristics, and the analysis and demographic estimates necessary for ascertaining the structure and dynamics of the population.

9. Subdirectorate-General for Sampling and Data Collection.

   The planning, monitoring, controlling and performing the collection of primary data, compiling questionnaires, establishing the collection method and maintaining the indicators for load, quality and resources in the data collection process correspond to the Subdirectorate-General for Sampling and Data Collection. It is likewise responsible for designing survey samples.

1. The General Secretariat is in charge of the management and selection of personnel, labour relations, internal and general activities, life-long training, social action, occupational hazard prevention and monitoring and controlling services, sanctioning procedures as regards statistical issues and disciplinary procedures in general, in the field of the competences of the organism, as well as managing and controlling the budget, and undertaking the administration of accounts and financial management, acquisition of goods and hiring of services.
2. The Electoral Census Office is in charge of creating and revising the electoral census, and providing assistance to electoral processes in the terms established in the electoral legislation.
3. The Office of the President and Statistical Coordination and Planning is in charge of the general coordination of the statistical services of the State General Administration, the relationships with statistical services of the other Public Administrations, the compilation and monitoring of the National Statistical Plan and its annual programmes, and supporting and providing immediate assistance to the Presidency of the Institute. It is also responsible for tasks relating to coordination and management of the Municipal Register. Similarly, it is also responsible for the functions of the General Secretariat of the High Council on Statistics, the Interministerial Statistics Commission and the Board of Management.
4. The Legal Department is in charge of providing legal assistance and advice to the organs of the Institute, under the terms set out in the prevailing guidelines.
5. Internal monitoring of the economic and financial management thereof under the terms set out by the prevailing guidelines corresponds to the Delegate Agency in the body.

1. The territorial units of the Instituto Nacional de Estadística are:
   1. Provincial delegations
   2. Ceuta and Melilla delegations.
2. Under article 30, Government Statistics Act, the territorial units of the Institute shall report in functional terms to the INE President, without prejudice to their organisational subordination to the delegations of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
3. The territorial units of the Institute are tasked with the duties set forth at Article 11 of Royal Decree 390/1998, regulating the duties and organisational structure of delegations of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.

The civil servants and contract staff of the Institute shall be governed by the laws and regulations on civil service and on ordinary employment contracts applicable to the rest of central government staff, pursuant to article 47 of the Law 6/1997, of 14 April on the Organisational Structure and Functioning of Central Government Act.

1. The assets and financial means of the Institute are:
   1. the assets and securities of the Institute's property, and their associated output and income;
   2. the transfers and subsidies annually set down in the central government budget or in the budgets of other autonomous bodies and public entities;
   3. revenue owed to it under public or private law and, in particular, the proceeds of the performance of activities relating to the purposes of the Institute;
   4. subsidies, voluntary contributions and donations granted to it by public or private persons; and
   5. any other ordinary and extraordinary financial resources it is legally authorised to receive.
2. The legal framework governing the Institute's property shall be article 48 of the Law 6/1997, of 14 April on the Organisational Structure and Functioning of Central Government Act.

he legal framework applicable to the Institute's contracts shall be the legislation on public procurement, subject to article 49 of the Law 6/1997, of 14 April on the Organisational Structure and Functioning of Central Government Act and the rest of laws and regulations applicable to central government.

The system governing the budgets, economic-financial aspects, intervention, financial control and accounting and accountability will be established in General Budgetary Law 47/2003, of 26 November.

An act emanating from the President of the Institute exhausts administrative proceedings if it relates to the exercise of the technical statistical duties under article 30(2) of Law 12/1989, of 9 May on the Government Statistics Act or to the preservation of statistical confidentiality.

An act emanating from the President of the Institute that exhausts administrative proceedings may be opposed by an application to the judicial review courts, without prejudice to the filing of an administrative appeal for reversal under the Law 30/1992, of 26 November on Administrative Procedure Act, as amended by the Law 4/1999, of 13 January.

An act emanating from the President of the Institute that does not exhaust administrative proceedings may be opposed by an appeal to the higher authority of the Minister of Economy and Treasury under article 31 of the Government Statistics Act.