Automated administrative action is understood as defined in Article 41 of Law 40/2015, of 1 October, on the Legal Regime of the Public Sector. That is, any act or action carried out wholly by electronic means by a Public Administration within the framework of an administrative procedure and in which no public sector employee has intervened directly.
Article 42 of Law 40/2015, of 1 October, includes among the different electronic signature possibilities in automated administrative actions the use of electronic seals based on electronic certificates fulfilling the requirements established by the electronic signature regulations, or the use of a Secure Verification Code (hereinafter, CSV, as per the Spanish acronym).
Regulation of automated administrative procedures:
- General Secretariat of Autonomic and Local Coordination: Resolution of 23 January 2014 (PDF, approximate size 257 KB), modifying the Resolution of 28 June 2013 (PDF, approximate size 814 KB).
- Central Economic-Administrative Court: Resolution for 23 October 2024.
- Directorate-General for Budgets: Resolution of 8 November 2017.
- General Secretariat for Budgets and Expenses and General Comptroller of the State Administration: Joint resolution of 17 June 2010 (PDF, approximate size 90.1 KB).
- General Comptroller of the State Administration: Resolution of 12 March 2010 (PDF, approximate size 266 KB).
Regulation for the creation of electronic seals:
- Of several Ministerial bodies: Resolution of 18 February 2014 (PDF, approximate size 161 KB).
- Directorate-General for Budgets: Resolution of 13 June 2012 (PDF, approximate size 49.10 MB), modifying the Resolution of 16 March 2010 (PDF, approximate size 61.3 MB).
- General Comptroller of the State Administration: Resolution of 27 July 2010 (PDF, approximate size 1.36 MB).
Regulation for the creation CSV:
- General Inspectorate: Order HAP/533/2016, of 13 April, regulating the automated administrative activities within the scope of its powers and its use of the secure code verification (CSV) system.
- General Secretariat for Budgets and Expenses and General Comptroller of the State Administration: Order HAC/1108/2019, of 7 October, establishing the use of the secure code verification system.
- Central Economic-Administrative Court: Resolution of 23 October 2024, from the Under-secretariat, in which automated administrative actions and the secure verification code system are established within the area of competence of the Economic-Administrative Courts.
Joint regulation of automated administrative procedures and electronic seals:
- State Vehicle Fleet: Resolution of 20 october 2015 (PDF, approximate size 67.5 KB).
- Under-Secretariat: Resolution of 3 June 2014 (PDF, approximate size 1.04 MB).
- Institute for Fiscal Studies: Resolution of 20 November 2013 (PDF, approximate size 2.48 MB).
