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The meeting was attended, among others, by our Dean, Santiago Crivillé also as president of the Council of Associations of Technical Industrial Engineers of Catalonia
This past October a meeting took place in Barcelona between a delegation from our professional group and a representative from the Ministry of Industry in order to address various issues of vital importance that directly affect our training and our activity . The meeting was attended by ministerial, the Secretary General of Industry, Joan Trullent. On behalf of the Technical Industrial Engineers, apart from our Dean of Tarragona, President Manuel León and the Secretary Antonio Prada of the Council of Colleges and the Dean of the College of Girona (CETIG), Narcís Bartina i the one from Barcelona (CETIB), Joan Ribó.
During the meeting, the delegation of Industrial Technical Engineers presented three major issues: on the one hand, the control bodies and the professional attributions of the industrial technical engineers (OCAS); on the other hand, the common telecommunications infrastructures and finally the adaptation of Spanish university degrees to the European Higher Education Area.
Regarding the Authorized Control Bodies, the discomfort of our group with regard to the processing and the elaboration of the technical documentation, the execution, the direction, the implementation and the the revisions carried out by these organisms. In this regard, our delegation expressed the lack of acceptance that certain installations must undergo periodic inspections carried out exclusively for OCAS because it is a situation that violates the Professional Attributions Act. Our representatives also gave the Secretary General of the Ministry of Industry a synthesis of the opinion on the attributions of the technical engineers and the foundations of the invalidity of the right of certain provisions of the Low Voltage Electrotechnical Regulation approved by the Royal Decree 842 / 2002
Another topic that was dealt with during the interview was Law 10/2005 on urgent measures for the promotion of Digital Terrestrial Television, the Liberalization of Television for Cables and the Promotion of pluralism, which as you know denies us the possibility of subscribing to common telecommunication infrastructure (ICT) projects against the opinion of the Supreme Court made public by a ruling of February 15, 2005. Our representatives demanded the Secretary General that industrial technical engineers regain these attributions with the conviction that both training and experience our profession can, as we have always done, this type of action.
More recently, and as a result of a letter from the Official College of Telecommunication Technical Engineers sent to colleagues to comment on this harmful process, the General Council of Official Associations of Industrial Technical Engineers has published in the press one page where the discomfort of our group manifests itself and the interests of our profession are protected against legislation that "mocks rulings of the Supreme Court, dictated just four months in advance." This complaint page on the processing of the law was published in various national media, among others, in the "Vanguardia" on November 25.
Finally, during the meeting held in October 2005 in Barcelona, we discussed the new degrees that, as you know, have to be defined in order to adapt them to the EHEA (European Higher Education Area) . In response to the request that our schools be able to participate in the specification of the professional attributes associated with the titles, the Secretary General announced that as representatives of our group, the members of the various entities present at the meeting they would be summoned to form a commission that will give professional content to the titles.
