Vallès Oriental approves the guidelines to appoint its comarcal management

The Vallès Oriental County Council has approved the regulatory bases for the procedure to appoint its management, a managerial position reserved exclusively for career civil servants of subgroup A1. The agreement, adopted by the Plenary in the session of September 23, 2026 (Plenary Agreement 2026/9), is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona on September 29, 2026, with the reference CVE 202610144959 and occupies pages 1 to 11. The text is signed by the president of the corporation, Emilio Cordero Soria, in Granollers, on September 25, 2026.

The bases develop the coverage of the Management body in accordance with article 13 of Royal Legislative Decree 5/2015, of October 23, which approves the revised text of the Basic Statute of the Public Employee, with the Organic Regulation of the County Council and with the monograph of the body approved by the Plenary on January 27, 2021. The selected person will have the status of professional managerial staff and will be declared in the administrative situation of special services in their administration of origin.

The procedure opens with the call from the Presidency, which has not yet been published, and the reference file of the process is X2026014535.

A managerial position with exclusive dedication

• Classification group: A1.
• Destination supplement level: 30.
• Specific supplement: 3,651.61 euros per month.
• Exclusive dedication and incompatibility regime established for the members of the County Council.

The link is that of professional managerial staff, and the appointment, maintenance, and dismissal from the position shall comply with what is established at any given time by the Organic Regulation of the County Council. The Management assumes the direction of the county administration, the execution of the Plenary’s agreements, the direction of works and services, the authorization of expenses within the limits of the delegation, the management of human resources, and the promotion of electronic administration and transparency.

Requirements: A1 civil servants with five years of experience

Applicants must meet the following requirements on the closing date of the deadline:

• Be a career civil servant of a body or scale of subgroup A1 of any public administration.
• Hold a bachelor’s degree or degree and functional capacity for the position.
• Provide a Catalan language certificate of level C1 or equivalent.
• Accredit a minimum experience of five years in the private or public sector in positions with a technical profile or managerial responsibility.
• Not have been separated from service by disciplinary proceedings nor be disqualified, and not incur the incompatibilities of Law 53/1984 and Law 21/1987.

Fifteen-day deadline and evaluation commission

The deadline for submitting applications is fifteen calendar days starting from the day after the publication of the call for applications announcement in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona, the Official Gazette of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Transparency Portal, and on the Comarcal Council’s website. Applications may be submitted via the electronic registry, in person at the offices at number 46 Miquel Ricomà Street in Granollers, or through other means provided for in Law 39/2015.

The Evaluation Commission will be composed of a minimum of three people and their substitutes, career officials of group A1 appointed by the Presidency, and may include experts in professional public management with more than ten years of experience. The process evaluates ten competencies, including analytical capacity, communication, people management, negotiation, decision-making, and strategic vision, through the analysis of the curriculum vitae and an individual interview. The Presidency may subsequently hold a discretionary interview with the proposed candidates and submit its proposal to the Plenary; if no candidate meets the required competencies, the call will be declared void.

The appointment of the Management is a key element for the functioning of the Comarcal Council, as the position assumes the direction of the comarcal administration, human resources policy, and budgetary management. The rules establish a regulated and competency-based procedure to fill it, with a fifteen-day deadline that will begin to count when the Presidency publishes the call.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona, September 29, 2026, Local Administration, pp. 1-11 (official reference: CVE 202610144959).