L'Urgell urgently seeks an auditing secretary for the municipal assistance service

The Urgell County Council has activated an urgent call to fill the vacant position of Secretary-Interventor of the Municipal Technical Assistance Service (SATM). The president of the corporation, José Luís Marín Ruiz, has signed Decree 404/2026, of October 2026, which orders the call for civil servants with national qualification. The announcement is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida no. 205, of October 27, 2026 (edict 8933, official reference CVE BOP-2026_0_205_8933, pp. 1-5).

The call is based on article 81.3 of the revised text of the Law of the Basic Statute of the Public Employee, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 5/2015, of October 30, and is deployed according to Royal Decree 128/2018, of March 16, which regulates the legal regime of local Administration civil servants with national qualification. The County Council justifies the urgency based on the fact that the position is vacant in the civil service staff and that the role is indispensable for the ordinary functioning of the entity.

This is not the first move by the corporation in this area. On October 2, 2026, the BOP of Lleida (no. 188, edict 8018) had already published the designation of the competition-examination board to provide interim secretary-intervention positions for the SATM, with the creation of a job bank for the Urgell County Council. A few weeks later, on October 21 (no. 201, edict 8726), the Provincial Council of Lleida issued an unfavorable report regarding the request to accumulate the treasury functions of the Urgell County Council in a civil servant assigned to the Municipal Assistance Service of the Provincial Council.

An A1 position with 14,267.46 euros in specific supplement

The guidelines establish a high-level technical profile, reserved for already qualified personnel:

• Designation: Secretary-Interventor of the Municipal Technical Assistance Service (SATM).
• Access subgroup: A1.
• Destination supplement level: 26.
• Annual specific supplement: €14,267.46.
• Indispensable requirement: to be a career civil servant of the local Administration scale with national qualification.

Knowledge of Catalan is also required. Persons who provide a certificate of proficiency level (C1) or higher from the General Directorate of Language Policy, or equivalent degrees from Order VCP/491/2009, of November 12, modified by Order VCP/233/2010, of April 12, are exempt from the test. Those who do not prove this must take an eliminatory test with a written part and an oral part, administered by the Consortium for Language Normalization, and will be graded as fit or unfit.

Five business days to submit the application

The deadline for submitting applications is five business days starting from the day after the publication of the announcement on the corporation’s electronic notice board and in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida. Applications must be submitted electronically, in accordance with article 16.4 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the common administrative procedure.

The application must be accompanied by the service certificate issued by the competent general directorate or, alternatively, the certificates of services rendered and the supporting documentation of the alleged degrees and training courses. The formalization of the application implies consent to the processing of personal data necessary for the selection process.

Provisional appointment, service commission, or accumulation

The position may be filled through three non-definitive channels, with a strict hierarchy established by Royal Decree 128/2018:

• Provisional appointment (article 49): takes precedence over the others and lasts until the position is definitively occupied by nationally qualified personnel.
• Service commission (article 51): only if the impossibility of a provisional appointment is proven in the file; maximum duration of one year, extendable for one more year.
• Accumulation (article 50): only if the previous two formulas fail; it ends when the position is filled by any other means.

Once the deadline has closed, a nationally qualified official of the corporation —or, if none exist, a career official or an interim official— must issue a suitability report for each applicant according to the current merits scale, with a reasoned proposal that will be submitted to the Presidency and, subsequently, to the General Directorate of Local Administration of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Transfer to CSITAL and appeal routes

The announcement must be transferred to the Council of Colleges of Secretaries, Auditors, and Treasurers of Local Administration of Catalonia (CSITAL), which will disseminate it on its website during the same five-day period. Against the resolution, which exhausts the administrative route, an appeal for reversal may be filed within one month or, directly, a contentious-administrative appeal before the Contentious-Administrative Court of Lleida within two months.

The filling of this position is particularly sensitive because the SATM provides legal, economic, and accounting support to the smallest town councils in the region, which do not have their own secretary-auditor. A prolonged vacancy in a nationally qualified position directly affects the ability of these councils to approve accounts, process files, or provide legal coverage for their agreements.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida, no. 205, of October 27, 2026, Local Administration - County Councils, pp. 1-5 (official reference: CVE BOP-2026_0_205_8933).