The Law 30/2015 of September 2015 (Ley 30/2015, de 9 de septiembre, por la que se regula el Sistema de Formación Profesional para el empleo en el ámbito laboral) laid out the understanding that Vocational Training is included in the competence of labour legislation, which is an exclusive competence of the State, as well as in the exclusive competence of the State regarding the basis and coordination of the general planning of the economic activity.
Central level
State competences[1]
- Regulating the validity of academic and occupational qualifications across the country;
- Setting minimum standards for teaching centres. Establishing the overall education programme, setting the minimum contents of education programmes, and regulating the validity of academic and occupational qualifications across the country;
- Drawing and implementing plans for labour market needs and training policy, in cooperation with the ACs;
- Running the National Census of vocational training centres and collaborating agencies;
- Regulating the conditions for obtaining, issuing and recognising labour certificates as valid throughout the country;
- Carrying out high-level inspection procedures.
- Program workshop schools and trade and promotions and development units.
- Employment workshops programmes.
- Dual vocational training; i.e. types of vocational education and training (VET) that consist in both work and learning.
Regional level
Regional level authorities are responsible for:
- Implementation and development of national standards and regulation of non-essential aspects of the education and the vocational training system;
- Executive and administrative powers to manage the vocational training system (SEPE) in the AC;
- Programming, organisation, management, administration and inspection of the provision of training, according to the Plan FIP (Vocational education and training Plan);
- Draft of operating contracts covering AC territory;
- Authorisation and validation of the courses organised by collaborating centres within the AC;
- Selecting students in accordance with the priorities and preferences established in the Plan FIP;
- Running vocational training centres;
- Preparing, enacting and implementing investment programmes in line with national economic policy;
- Holding register of centres and collaborating agencies within AC territories;
- Issuing vocational qualifications and certificates in line with national standards;
- Monitoring vocational training for the unemployed
Local level
Provincial competences
- Securing coordination and provision of municipal services.
Municipal competences
- Implementation of adult education initiatives;
- Setting up of School-Workshops, Trade Learning Centres or Employment Workshops.
Responsible ministries/bodies
Central
Sources
“Spain, laying the foundations for a dual system in vocational training", CEDEFOP, 2013
Ley orgánica 5/2002 de 19 de junio de la Cualificaciones y de la Formación Profesional. [Organic Law 5/2002 of 19 June 2002 on qualifications and vocational training]
Ley 2/2011 de 4 de marzo de Economía Sostenible. [Law 2/2011 of 4 March 2011 on the sustainable economy]
Ley 30/2015, de 9 de septiembre, por la que se regula el Sistema de Formación Profesional para el empleo en el ámbito laboral https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2015/09/10/pdfs/BOE-A-2015-9734.pdf
[1] Ley Orgánica 2/2006, de 3 de mayo sobre la educación [Organic Law 2/2006, of May 3 on education].
