SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION -- El Gobierno plantea suprimir organismos de la Generalitat

El Gobierno plantea suprimir organismos de la Generalitat

The government proposes to delete the Government agencies

Report forecasts remove from the Ombudsman to the Cartographic Institute and CEO | In general, all you can do that do not state autonomy | The Government sees the report on the roadmap to settle the self

"Unity is not contrary to autonomy," said Mariano Rajoy on Wednesday, but his government plans to undertake the "counter" that spoke Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba Sunday would be a reality and political autonomy would be reduced to the minimum. The vice president of the Government has moved to the regions first report with criteria that aims to eradicate administrative duplication between general administration (AGE) and the autonomous communities. The stated goal is to "reduce spending, ensure market unity and gain efficiency," but the political effect would be the recovery by the State authorities and autonomous bodies.

The philosophy behind the report prepared by the Subcommittee on Administrative duplication unit that integrates the Commission for the Reform of Public Administration (CORA) is summarized as follows: in general, all that can be done from the central government not to do the regions. Tune into the ideological criteria given by the Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies (FAES), the think tank headed by José María Aznar.

The document is "the real strategic indent PP government for recentralization of state," lawyers say the Regional Administration. The document does not pose a constitutional amendment but the measures proposed are so drastic that to carry out their plans will require reforming the statutes of autonomy and low organic laws.

The CORA document is dated November 18, consists of 720 pages and presents 120 measures "rationalization", "unification", "centralization", "deletion", "coordination" and "joint planning" services, starting at the hierarchical preeminence and superiority of the General State Administration. It has character "draft" but it has been presented to all authorities concerned. It is a unilateral report prepared exclusively by representatives of the central government although fully affects the distribution of powers with the autonomous communities.

Carried out the reforms that the Government intends to stop the autonomous communities have their own agencies and external control as the Ombudsman, the Audit Office and others as the Centre d'Estudis d'Opinio (CEO) always benefit central agencies. Will have to close the business offices of the autonomous communities abroad. Arises remove sectoral agencies as the Cartographic Institute, which has earned an international reputation, or Meteocat. Using the jargon of Catalan politics could be said that the Spanish Government would try to remove the few "state structures" available to Catalunya and other communities.

Especially relevant is the attempt to centralize decision making inherent political power procurement, procurement and concessions of any good or service. Arguing unit market, the central government will determine the management field of telecommunications for raising seven measures in accordance with the following criteria: "The main barriers that are telecom operators is the difficulty obtain the appropriate administrative permissions to network deployment. The project aims to ensure the unity of the market in the telecommunications sector, and considers public electronic communications networks an equipment basic character, establishing mechanisms to reduce in some cases, eliminate in others, obtaining permits and licenses, the delay or refusal adversely affect the deployment of networks. "

To understand the undisguised aim of centralizing document one example is the reference in the purchase of office supplies. Regional governments must apply to a central state purchasing to supply paper for printers and copiers, which also must be acquired by the same procedure.

In the field of education the Lomce criteria, known as the law Wert and affects a subject of long controversy, the scholarship is applied. The report predicts "unify the management system general scholarships." Scholarships are a responsibility of the Government, recognized by the Constitutional Court and agreed to the transfer in Joint Commission. However the Spanish governments, since 1996 Esperanza Aguirre was appointed Minister of Education, have consistently refused to make that transfer. There was a provisional agreement to establish "cooperation agreements" with Catalonia and Andalusia is now proposing that the report "not to renew".

"Unique sport license" or "implementation of equine smart card": Along with matters of great political significance others beyond the political significance inform government policy guidance are added. It is also true that some of the initiatives proposed in the report will address the central government to the regional governments as entrusting the management of the retirement of personnel working for the Administration of Justice, by the way one more expense to the estate autonomic. Or the "legislative amendment free transfer to municipalities of the state road sections that are urban trips."

However, the report of the CORA is so precise that every proposal includes memory, analysis of the scope of the measure, analysis of existing inefficiencies and improvements resulting from the measure Affected agencies, affected laws, estimated savings, tools used and, finally, implementation schedule, you unequivocally demonstrates the political will to carry it out.

For example, in the case of the advocates of regional people, the authors of the report load of reasons: cost among all 32.1 million annually, while the defending state costs 14,02 people. The report proposes two million increase in the budget of the state supporter and remove all others. The argument is arithmetic: saving 30.1 million. The report predicts that by agreement with the Autonomous Community, the removal of the Ombudsman could be resolved within six to 18 months.

Government sources have called the report "devastating". Since the Government is seen as "the final settlement of self-government", but as would be necessary to reform the Catalan statute and would not have a correlation of forces in favor of the Government a lawyer provides that the report of the CORA is "the advance of the presentation PP for eventual involution reform the Constitution. " For now, the fear is focused on the possibility that the PP condition funding of the Government to implement the reforms proposed by the CORA. All departments of the Government have been working for contraargumentar the report and rebut the argument that the central government is more efficient