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The meeting was attended, among others, by our Dean, Santiago Crivillé also as president of the Council of Colleges of Industrial Technical Engineers of Catalonia.
This past October, a meeting took place in Barcelona between a delegation of our professional group and a representative of the Ministry of Industry in order to discuss several issues of vital importance that directly affect our training and our activity. The meeting was attended by the Ministerial side, the Secretary General of Industry, Joan Trullent. On the part of the Industrial Technical Engineers, also present, in addition to our Dean of Tarragona, were the president Manuel León and the secretary Antonio Prada of the Council of Colleges and the Dean of the College of Girona (CETIG), Narcís Bartina and that of Barcelona (CETIB), Joan Ribó.
The delegation of Industrial Technical Engineers presented during the meeting three major topics: on the one hand, the control bodies and the professional attributions of industrial technical engineers (OCAS); on the other hand, common telecommunications infrastructures and finally the adaptation of Spanish university degrees to the European Higher Education Area.
Regarding the Authorized Control Bodies, our group's dissatisfaction was evident with regard to the treatment and preparation of technical documentation, execution, management, commissioning and reviews carried out by these bodies. In this regard, our delegation expressed its non-acceptance that certain installations should be subject to periodic inspections carried out exclusively by the OCAS because this is a situation that violates the Professional Attributions Act. Our representatives also delivered to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Industry a summary of the opinion on the attributions of technical engineers and the grounds for the full nullity of certain provisions of the Low Voltage Electrotechnical Regulation approved by Royal Decree 842/2002.
Another of the topics that were discussed during the interview was Law 10/2005 on urgent measures for the promotion of Digital Terrestrial Television, the Liberalization of Cable Television and the Promotion of Pluralism, which as you know denies us the possibility of signing common telecommunications infrastructure (ICT) projects against the opinion of the Supreme Court made public through a ruling of February 15, 2005. Our representatives demanded from the Secretary General that industrial technical engineers recover these attributions with the conviction that both by training and by experience our profession can target, as we have always done, this type of action.
More recently, and following a letter from the Official Association of Technical Telecommunications Engineers sent to its members to express their opinion on this harmful process, the General Council of Official Associations of Technical Industrial Engineers has published a page in the press expressing the discomfort of our group and defending the interests of our profession against legislation that "mockeries Supreme Court rulings, issued only four months in advance". This page of complaint about the processing of the law was published in several national media, including "Vanguardia" on November 25.
Finally, during the meeting held in October 2005 in Barcelona, the new qualifications were discussed, which as you know must be defined in order to adapt them to the EHEA (European Higher Education Area). In response to the request that our colleges could participate in defining the professional attributions associated with the qualifications, the Secretary General announced that, as representatives of our group, the members of the various entities present at the meeting would be called upon to form a commission that would give professional content to the qualifications.
