1. The Audit Office is the external regulatory body for public accounts of the State administration and other local bodies.

2. The Office will be comprised of ten trustees appointed by Parliament, by means of an agreement that requires a qualified majority.

3. The Office carries out its duties on a collegiate basis for a 5-year term, which can be renewed for a further five years.

4. It has full organizational, functional and budgetary autonomy in accordance with Law.

5. Personal status, incompatibilities, grounds for dismissal, organization and functioning of the Audit Office shall be regulated by law.

1. Parliament shall appoint the Regional Ombudsman, and City Councils shall in turn appoint local ombudsmen, and provide the material structure as well as the human and financial resources needed to ensure the proper performance of responsibilites.

2. The government of Catalonia is obliged to cooperate with the Ombudsman. In case of repeated failure, the Syndicate may impose the sanctions provided for by law.

3. Ombudsmen perform their duties with full independence and objectivity, are irremovable and can only be suspended or removed from office for reasons previously established by law.

1. Both the Regional Ombudsman and Local Ombudsmen are natural persons who cannot be affiliated to any political party during their term of office.

2. They will be elected by direct universal, free and secret suffrage by the citizens of their respective territories, for a non-extendable period of ten years.

1 The Public Administration carries out its tasks within its territory in accordance with the principles of devolution, decentralization, subsidiarity and proximity.

2 The legal statute of the staff in the public administration will determine possible incompatibilitie and guarantee ongoing technical training as well as access requirements.

1. The State Administration is the public entity responsible for exercising the executive functions conferred to the Government by this Constitution.

2. It is governed by the principles of objectivity, safeguarding of general interests, and subservience to the law and public service.

3. In accordance with the principle of transparency, the Administration shall make public at least once a year the necessary information to enable citizens to evaluate its managerial effectiveness.

1. The Ombudsman’s role is the protection and defence of citizens’ rights before the administration.

2. The office of the Ombudsman is the institution in charge of supervising the activities of all public authorities across the State, without prejudice to the exclusive powers assigned to local Ombudsman offices.

3. The Ombudman shall receive citizens’ complaints and requests which must be answered within a maximum of 30 days.

1. The Government is the collegial body that directs and executes the State’s political action.

2. The Government is composed of the Prime Minister (head of government) and the ministers related to each field of competence. Their functions and powers will be regulated by law.

3. The full board of the Council of Ministers leave office when the Head of Government does so.

4. All legal norms issued by the Government will be published in the Official Gazette of the Republic.

1.The Prime Minister must form a government within no more than thirty calender days after the elections.

2. The composition of the members of the Cabinet is the exclusive competence of the Head of Government.

3. The Prime Minister replaces the President of the republic in case of illness or temporary absence overseas.

1. The President shall appoint the Prime Minister of the republic, who will serve for a maximum of two terms.

2. The President holds veto power over the laws enacted by Parliament except for those that have adopted by qualified majority.

3. The President shall enact laws and decree-laws and order their publication, sign international treaties on behalf of Catalonia, accredit and receive foreign diplomat representatives and call elections and referendums.

1. The personal status shall be regulated by an Act of Parliament.

2. In case of resignation or dismissal after approval of a vote of no confidence, rejection of a vote of confidence, death or permanent physical or mental disability, the President of Parliament will take over the President’s functions until a new election by universal suffrage of the people takes place.