Basque Government

Departments – Tourism, Commerce and Consumption

Functions and areas of activity

The Department of Tourism, Commerce and Consumption will exercise its functions on the following matters:

  1. Tourism.
  2. Trade.
  3. Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Navigation.
  4. Consumption.
  5. Pricing policy.
  6. Direct, in accordance with the laws and regulations, the public sector entities are attached or dependent on the department.
  7. Other faculties are attributed to it by laws and regulations.

 

The following attributions also correspond to the head of the Department:

  1. Define the strategic objectives of the scope of its powers based on the strategic lines and programmatic commitments defined in the Government Program.
  2. Analyze the social impact achieved by the development of its strategic objectives and determine the precise modifications or development in the objectives of the different sectors of activity of the Department.
  3. Maintain relations with State bodies, Autonomous Communities and Provincial Councils and competent local entities, in relation to the matter.
  4. The development of a coordinated policy between the different Basque institutions and between these and the agents of the tourism, hospitality and commercial distribution sectors.
  5. Represent the Department in the bodies and/or commissions promoted by the State Administration in matters of Tourism and Commerce.
  6. The provision of freely appointed posts after a public call, as well as the appointment of eventual personnel.
  7. The resolution of conflicts of powers between bodies of the Department itself and the raising of questions of competence with other Departments and bodies.
  8. Resolve the resources that are filed against resolutions of the Department's agencies or authorities when they are not the responsibility of another body.
  9. The resolution of the patrimonial responsibility claims that arise in relation to the activity of the Department.
  10. Initiate and resolve the procedures for the declaration of harmfulness of voidable acts, and those for the ex officio review of invalid provisions and acts; in both cases with respect to acts dictated within the scope of the Department and unless its specific regulations attribute them to another body.