By virtue of the powers invested in me by article 55.2 of the Statutes of Pompeu Fabra University and in order to structure the vice-rector's offices, assign areas of competence to them and delegate functions,

I HEREBY DECIDE:

Article 1. The vice-rector's offices are to be structured as follows:

- Vice-rector's office for International Relations

- University Community Area:
Vice-rector's Office for Teaching Staff.
Vice-rector's Office for Students.

- Teaching Area:
Vice-rector's Office for Teaching and Academic Development.
Vice-rector's Office for Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies.

- Research Area:
Vice-rector's Office for Science Policy
Vice-rector's Office for Research.

- Institutional Deployment Area:
Vice-rector's Office for Quality and Institutional Strategy.
Vice-rector's Office for Economy, Information Resources and Institutional Relations.

Article 2. The Vice-rector's Office for International Relations co-ordinates and supervises the following areas under the supervision of the rector:

- Pompeu Fabra University's relations with international universities and institutions.
- Exchange and educational co-operation and mobility programmes with universities and institutions, wherever they are located.
- The Study Abroad Program
- The Hispanic Studies Programme.
- Co-ordination of cross-disciplinary policies affecting more than one Vice-Rector's Office, and gender equality policies.

Article 3. The vice-rector for International Relations, delegated by the rector, will perform the following functions:

- Chair the International Relations Committee.
- Chair the Study Abroad Program Committee.
- Award scholarships or grants to UPF students participating in exchange programmes or other mobility programmes.
- Certify the credentials of students admitted to another university as part of an exchange programme.
- Sign the specific agreements for courses and activities within the UPF Study Abroad Program.
- Sign the documents that the legal representative of the UPF requires signing in the Seneca scholarships programme; in the "Erasmus Mobility Programme within the Lifelong Learning Programme"; and other exchange and mobility programmes for members of the University Community.

Article 4. The Vice-rector's Office for Teaching Staff co-ordinates and supervises the following areas under the supervision of the rector:

- Teaching staff.
- Teaching Activity Plan
- Admission to and allocation of positions in teaching bodies and recruitment of teaching staff.
- Legal regime of the teaching staff.

Article 5. The vice-rector for Teaching Staff, delegated by the rector, will perform the following functions:

Competitive examinations for positions in teaching bodies:

- Implement the proceedings and decisions in ordinary procedures for competitive examinations for positions in teaching bodies, except for the call and appointment.
- Request the administrative transcript of lecturers from other universities obtaining a position at the UPF.
- Authorise positions in teaching bodies to be filled on a temporary basis and formalise appointments as necessary.

Recruitment of teaching staff:

- Authorise contracted teaching staff positions to be filled when this does not fall to the Teaching Staff Committee.
- Make rulings and decisions in all ordinary procedures pertaining to positions of contracted lecturers and training researchers, except for the call procedures.
- Formalise the contract of contracted lecturers of both official degree courses and the UPF degree courses, and declare them to be terminated.
- Notify the competent educational administration body of the recruitment of teaching staff for the purposes of personnel registration.

Leave, sabbaticals and secondments:

- Authorise leave for studies to carry out teaching and research activities which are the competence of the rector, and establish the remuneration that a lecturer obtaining permission for leave may receive.
- Admit secondments for attending thesis boards or competitive admission processes for teaching staff and ask other universities for those of their teaching staff.

Teaching staff administration and management:

- Designate the secondments entitled to compensation, and approve the compensation to which they are entitled, and approve the compensation for change of residence and participation on boards.
- Authorise the leave and holidays to which the teaching staff is entitled according to civil service legislation.
- Authorise payment of compensation for travel and initial moving and change of residence expenses as anticipated.
- Decide on recognition of three-yearly increments and services prior to Administration.
- Declare compulsory retirement.
- Rule on the conflicts of interest regime for teaching staff.
- Declare administrative situations, except for the suspension of employment.
- The creation, processing and issuing of summary disciplinary proceedings for teaching staff.
- Confer habilitation on teaching staff.

Article 6. The Vice-rector's Office for Students co-ordinates and supervises the following areas under the supervision of the rector:

- Planning and co-ordination of students' participation in the University's academic, social and cultural activities.
- Scholarships and grants to students.
- Professional guidance and advice to students.
- Relations with the UPF Student Council.
- Relations with students' associations.
- The Alumnus Programme.
- Relations with the Alumni Association.
- University services for the welfare of the university community, and cultural and sports activities.
- Support for specific groups.
- Voluntary work, co-operation and charity.
- The Programme for Voluntary Work in Developing Countries.

Article 7. The vice-rector for Students, delegated by the rector, will perform the following functions:

- Chair the Culture Committee.
- Chair the Scholarship Awarding Committee.
- Chair the Co-operation Scholarships Awarding Committee.
- Chair the extraordinary end of studies committee.
- Chair the committees assessing the grants allocated to voluntary work, charity and co-operation.
- Sign agreements or contracts with third party organisations which contain specific agreements for advantages for the university community and the promotion of cultural, sports, and similar activities in the university sphere.
- Sign agreements that the Universitat Pompeu Fabra signs with various institutions in the field of sports, cultural and co-operation activities and initiatives aimed at specific groups.
- Decide on applications for recognition of credits for university activities, apart from those for language learning.
- The creation, processing and issuing of summary disciplinary proceedings for students.

Article 8. The Vice-rector's Office for Teaching and Academic Development co-ordinates and supervises the following areas under the supervision of the rector:

- Planning of courses and the number of places offered.
- Production and modification of Undergraduate course syllabuses.
- Academic and qualifications calendar.
- Verification of knowledge.
- University qualifications standards.
- University admission. Co-ordination of University entrance examinations and admission for other groups for lifelong education, according to the legislation in force.
- Admission to courses.
- Degree course scholarships and grants.
- Regulation, validation, adaptation of courses, validation of experience, recognition and transfer of credits and continuance.
- Process for adaptation of teaching to the European Higher Education Area.
- Teaching and academic organisation.
- Co-ordination of centres and studies, and the departments in the areas for which it is competent.
- Recognition of academic activities, except those pertaining to the Vice-Rector's Office responsible for student affairs.
- Special Academic Activities Programme.
- Affiliation and integration of higher education centres.
- Health agreements
- Pedagogical techniques and innovation and teaching improvement.
- Teaching Quality and Innovation Centre
- Language learning and promotion of multilingualism

Article 9. The vice-rector for Teaching and Academic Development, delegated by the rector, will perform the following functions:

In bachelor's degrees:

Degree courses regulated by Royal Decree 1393/2007 of 20 October:

- Chair the Academic Credits Recognition Committee.
- Sign applications for the verification of official degree qualifications presented, and sign the other documents included in the verification procedure.
- Issue rulings on applications in University admission procedures.
- Issue rulings on appeals in procedures for readmission to the university.
- Issue rulings, when requested by the Board of Trustees, on applications concerning part-time studies and reversion therefrom.
- Issue rulings, when requested by the Board of Trustees, on resit examination applications.
- Issue rulings, when requested by the Board of Trustees, on applications for progression in studies and continuance.
- Decide on appeals concerning degree courses when the deans and directors of centres are those competent in the procedures, except for those relating to the recognition of credits.
- Certify students' academic personal or details, except in cases where this is the responsibility of the head of the Academic Management Service.
- Authorise the teaching of subjects with a lower number than that authorised.
- Decide on appeals concerning procedures stipulated in the academic regulations, when other bodies are not competent do so.

Degree courses regulated by Royal Decree 1497/1987 of 27 November:

- Issue rulings on applications for simultaneous studies
- Issue rulings regarding the admission of students who have begun their university studies.
- Appoint boards to organise and assess the resit examination for a course or subject.
- Appoint the selection or assessment boards for admission to the first and second cycles of the University.
- Authorise the teaching of subjects with a lower number than that authorised.
- Certify students' academic personal or details, except in cases where this falls to the head of the Academic Management Service.
- Decide on requests for resit examinations in university entrance examinations and applications for formalisation of registration after the deadline has passed.
- Issue rulings, when requested by the Board of Trustees, on applications for a resit examination.
- Issue rulings, when requested by the Board of Trustees, on applications for progression in studies and continuance.
- Decide on appeals concerning university admission.
- Decide on appeals concerning the recognition of the academic value of studies.
- Decide on appeals on procedures stipulated in the academic regulations, when other bodies are not competent do so.

In Academic Affairs:

- Chair the Education Committee.
- When requested by the competent bodies, grant grounds for teaching merit.

In Teaching Innovation:

- Formalise contracts signed under the terms of article 83 of the Constitutional Law for universities, the purpose of which is for lecturers at the UPF to commission to undertake works subject to Intellectual property rights for the purposes of teacher training or learning.
- Formalise contracts granting rights to use teaching materials.

In Languages:

- Announce Language Training Programme scholarships and chair the Committee that awards them.
- Academic recognition as credits for language learning during degree studies; determine the number of credits and the levels needed for recognition for those cases not covered in the appendices to the language learning regulations in the degree courses, and update the appendices and include other languages in them, if appropriate.

Article 10. The Vice-rector's Office for Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies co-ordinates and supervises the following areas under the supervision of the rector:

- Official postgraduate and doctorate courses.
- UPF courses and continuing and lifelong education.
- Production and alterations to the master's degree and doctorate syllabuses.
- Co-ordination of university departments and research institutes in the areas in which it is competent.
- Admission to postgraduate and doctorate courses
- Registration and regulations of postgraduate and doctorate courses.
- Postgraduate studies scholarships and grants
- Validation of foreign qualifications.

Article 11. The vice-rector for Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies, delegated by the rector, will perform the following functions:

In Master's degrees and Doctorates:

- Chair the committee dealing with master's degrees and doctorates.
- Sign applications for the verification of official master's degree and doctorate qualifications, and sign the other documents contained in the verification procedure.
- Make decisions on applications for simultaneous master's degree studies.
- Make decisions, after a request by the Board of Trustees, on applications concerning continuance standards.
- Make rulings, after a request by the Board of Trustees, concerning resit examinations, in accordance with the regulations in force.
- Decide on appeals within the procedures stipulated in the academic regulations, when these do not fall within the jurisdiction of other bodies, except for cases requiring a report from the competent master's degree and doctorate committee.
- Authorise subjects in master's degree and doctorate programmes with a number of students that is less than that authorised by the regulations.
- Authorise admission for students with a non-validated foreign qualification to doctorate programmes.
- Certify students' academic personal or details, except in cases where this falls to the head of the Academic Management Service.
- Appoint the student selection committees for admission to official master's degree courses and doctorate programmes in cases where demand exceeds supply.
- Sign contracts granting rights of transformation, reproduction and public dissemination that the authors of doctoral theses confer on the Pompeu Fabra within University the "Catalan Electronic Doctoral Thesis project (TDC@T)".

In UPF own studies:

- Perform the functions conferred on the rector by the regulations for UPF own postgraduate studies at the Pompeu Fabra University.
- Sign UPF qualifications.
- Authorise admission of holders of foreign qualification to UPF own studies.

Article 12. The Vice-rector's Office for Science Policy co-ordinates and supervises the following areas under the supervision of the rector:

- Scientific strategy and policy
- Research planning and infrastructures (scientific-technical parks, technology centres, university institutes and research centres)
- Technology and knowledge transfer and valuation
- Business Chairs
- Scientific-technical services
- Planning of campus infrastructures (works, areas and facilities)

Article 13. The vice-rector for Science Policy, delegated by the rector, will perform the following functions:

- Chair the Research Committee.
- Act as Research Park Committee Member in Social Sciences and humanities.
- Formalise the contracts referred to in article 83 of the Constitutional Law for universities, except those stipulated in article 9 of this decision.
- Formalise patent operating licences.

Article 14. The Vice-rector's Office for Research co-ordinates and supervises the following areas under the supervision of the rector:

- Plan of Action for Research Support and other UPF research programmes
- UPF research bodies
- Research programmes and grants (autonomous regional, Spanish and European)
- Recruitment of research staff (the Ramón y Cajal, Juan de la Cierva and ICREA programmes, etc.)
- Research scholarships
- Scientific offer (Scientific Output Portal)
- Research report
- UNESCO Chairs

Article 15. The vice-rector for Research, delegated by the rector, will perform the following functions:

- Formalise applications for grants and projects promoted by other administrations and bodies in the field of research, development and innovation, and the documents arising therefrom.
- Decide on applications for the appointment of teaching and research staff to the UPF's own university institutes under the terms stipulated in the regulations for appointment of teaching and research staff personnel to the UPF's own university institutes.
- Decide on applications for the appointment of UPF teaching and research staff to research organisations linked to the UPF, under the terms established in UPF regulations and the appropriate agreements between the UPF and the organisation. This delegation includes provisional appointments, where necessary, in the event that the agreement with the third party is being processed.

Article 16. The Vice-rector's Office for Quality and Institutional Strategy co-ordinates and supervises the following areas under the supervision of the rector:

- The strategic planning of the UPF.
- The strategy of the UPF Group.
- Institutional assessment.

Article 17. The vice-rector for Quality and Institutional Strategy, delegated by the rector, will perform the following functions:

- Chair the appropriate planning and assessment committee or committees, when this does not fall to the rector.

Article 18. The Vice-rector's Office for Economy, Information Resources and Institutional Relations co-ordinates and supervises the following areas under the supervision of the rector:

In Economy, Promotion and the Environment:

- The execution of works and equipment.
- Maintenance of buildings.
- Supplies.
- Economic, budgetary and management planning and analysis.
- Relations with financial institutions.
- Operation of installations on campus.
- Promotion of the activities, services and infrastructures of the University and its foundations, in order to contribute to increasing their economic resources.
- Promotion bodies in co-operation with third party institutions.
- Environmental policy.

In Information Resources:

- The information resources.
- Promotion of e-government
- The Electronic Information and Communication System.

In Institutional Relations:

- Co-operation and representation relationships with public and private institutions.
- Work placement.
- University residences.

Article 19. The vice-rector for Economy, Information Resources and Institutional Relations, delegated by the rector, will perform the following functions:

In the economic-financial field:

- Authorise, prepare, acknowledge obligations and arrange payment of chapter I expenses for UPF staff, except payroll and Social Security expenses.
- Economic-financial powers of authorisation, preparation, recognition of obligations and arrangement of payment of expenses of amounts less than 600,000 euros, not including VAT.
- Sign bank transfers, cheques or any other means of payment of the expenses referred to in the sections above.
- Authorise the following adjustments to loans:
- Extension and generation of credits.
- Transfers of loans for which the rector is competent, due to the conditions of the UPF budget enforcement.
- Leave due to cancellation of loans.
- Authorise requests for the postponement of payment and payment in instalments of debts.
- Decide on return of revenue transfers, including decisions on claims arising from public prices.
- Sign awards of loans.

In Administrative Contracting:

- All administrative contracting tasks that the legislation covering public sector contracts attributes to the rector as a contracting body, without prejudice to the limitations thereof in the regulations laid down by the University, for work contracts, awarding of public works, management of public services, supplies and services, with tendering budget sums of less than 600,000 euros, excluding VAT.

The powers delegated are as follows:

a) Approval of the project, the particular administrative specifications sheet and where appropriate, the technical specifications.
b) Approval of the transcript and the award procedure, which also involves approval of the expenditure.
c) Designation of chairs of contracting boards.
d) Award of contracts.
e) Formalisation of contracts in an administrative document and where appropriate, in a public deed.

Service contracts containing services of an intellectual nature are not included in the delegation.

In Assets:

- Chair the Environment Committee.
- Represent the University with regard to the administrative proceedings necessary
- Obtain licences and the process urban planning documents with Barcelona City Council and where appropriate, the Generalitat (government) of Catalonia that are related with the physical setting of the University.
- Formalise contracts for the rental of premises.
- Formalise contracts for the rental of general facilities and the purchase of computer technology licences.
- Sign agreements for management of university residences.

In Information Resources:

- Chair the Information Technologies and Resources Strategy Committee.
- Chair the Quality Information Resources Committee.
- Chair the Free Software Commission.

Article 20. As well as the competences conferred on it by article 56 of the UPF Statutes, the General Secretary's Office co-ordinates and supervises the following areas, under the supervision of the rector:

- The development of statutes and regulations.
- Ordinary relations with the UPF Ombudsman.
- Relations between the academic bodies and administrative services and the Board of Trustees. This does not include the special relations with the president of the board, which is the rector's responsibility, and execution of the agreements reached by that body, which is also the rector's responsibility. It also excludes relations concerning the members and the budget of the Board of Trustees, which is the responsibility of the general manager.
- Co-ordination of processes creating centres, departments and university research institutes.
- The affiliation procedures for teaching centres and institutes.

In the area of Administration and Services staff:

- Selection and provision of administration and services personnel positions.
- Training and assessment of administration and services staff.

Article 21. The secretary or general secretary, delegated by the rector, has the following functions with regard to administration and services personnel:

- To appoint temporary staff members.
- Sign contracts of personnel employed on a temporary basis, except for senior management contracts, and declare them to be terminated.
- Declare compulsory retirement and retirement due to physical incapacity.
- Declare administrative situations, except for the suspension of employment.
- The creation, processing and issuing of summary disciplinary proceedings for administration and services staff.
- Implement the proceedings and decisions in ordinary procedures for competitive examinations for administration and services staff positions, except for the call and appointment.

Article 22. Vice-rectors are delegated, within the areas in which they are competent, to sign agreements with other public and private bodies and organisations other than those listed in the articles above, providing that the senior representative of the third party institution does not sign.

Article 23. Vice-rectors are delegated to apply to public and private bodies for grants and subsidies on behalf of the University within the respective areas in which they are competent.

Article 24. In order to establish co-ordination mechanisms that enable consistency of action in the various areas overseen by the various committees established at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the workings of committees which are chaired by delegation of the rector will be subject to the following regulations:

- The preparation of the agenda of meetings, and the documentation that accompanies it, will be undertaken by the chair of the committee, with the approval of the rector.

- The chairs of the committees will inform the rector of the agreements adopted, based on the drafts of the minutes of meetings.

- The chairs of the committees, or the secretaries if instructed to do so by the latter, will provide the rector's office with a copy of the minutes of the meetings after they have been approved. This will be archived in the General Secretary's Office.

- Agreements by committees requiring subsequent approval by the Board of Governors or Board of Trustees, or their respective delegate committees, will be formalised with a certificate from the secretary of the committee to the University General Secretary's Office.

- Passing on proposals for agreement to the Board of Trustees is the exclusive responsibility of the rector.

- Agreements by committees will be published in the UPF electronic media if the nature of them makes this necessary.

Article 25. Official UPF communications to the educational government bodies or other government bodies or authorities, and sending general information, is the exclusive responsibility of the rector.

Article 26. The references to the vice-rector's offices in the UPF regulations will be deemed to refer to the competent vice-rector's office for the subject in accordance with this decision.

Article 27. The administrative rulings adopted by virtue of this delegation with be considered to be issued by the rector and therefore exhaust the administrative proceedings. The powers delegated include issuing of the certificate accrediting the silence referred to in article 43.5 of the Law for the Legal Regime of Public Administrations and Common Administrative Proceedings and ruling on the appeals filed against proceedings with rulings issued by delegation. The minutes issued must include the words "per delegació" [by delegation], abbreviated to "P.D.", followed by the position and date of this decision.

The powers delegated by this decision may be heard and ruled on by the rector due to his/her knowledge and for the resolution of those issues he/she considers appropriate, in accordance with the stipulations of article 14 of the Law for the Legal Regime of Public Administrations and Common Administrative Proceedings.

Annulment provision

The decision of 1 June 2005, concerning the responsibilities of the vice-rector's offices and the delegation of functions, and the amendments of 20 March 2007 and 1 September 2008, are rendered null and void. Likewise, the decisions of 11 June 2007, 31 March 2008, 7 May 2008, 25 June 2008, 13 October 2008, 5 November 2008, 16 June 2008, 16 October 2008, 20 September 2008, 30 October 2008 and 24 November 2008, concerning the delegation or assignment of functions to various vice-rector's offices, are also rendered null and void.

Josep Joan Moreso i Mateos
Rector

Barcelona, 16 March 2007