a) THE GENERAL SECRETARIAT, which is made up of the SECRETARY-GENERAL and the DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL and possesses the functions and competences established in articles 612 to 614 of Organic Law 4/2013.

The General Secretariat will include a CENTRAL SERVICE, to be made up the departments that provide communal and cross-cutting services to the various bodies of the Council, as follows:

1. SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION, which shall include the following areas, sections and units:
   • Support to the Permanent Committee
   • Documentation
   • Library
   • Records and Archive
2. MANAGEMENT, structured as follows:
   • Budgetary Management
   • Staff Administration
   • Authorisation
   • Information Technology
   • Contracting and General Matters
   • Maintenance and Supplies
   • Occupational Risk Prevention
3. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
4. LEGAL STAFF, which will include the following areas:
   • Legal Framework for Judges
   • Legal Framework for Magistrates
   • Support for the Judge
   • Selection (classification)
   • Judicial Office
   • Disciplinary System: The Disciplinary System department will be dependent on the definitive form of the structure that serves the Ombudsman for Disciplinary Action.

B) Likewise, in accordance with Article 615 there will be an INSPECTION SERVICE that will be dependent on the Permanent Commission and include the following functions:

1. INSPECTION UNITS (WHERE APPLICABLE)
2. REPORTS
3. CITIZEN SERVICES, COMPLAINTS AND CLAIMS
4. STATISTICS

C) Article 616 also provides for the creation of a TECHNICAL OFFICE, as the body responsible for providing technical and legal advice and support to the various bodies of the General Council of the Judiciary. In order to perform its functions, this Office shall comprise the following subject areas, sections and services:

1. STUDIES, REPORTS AND AGREEMENTS
2. EQUALITY AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
3. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY WITHIN THE JUDICIARY
4. MEDIATION
5. APPEALS

D) Competences concerning the selection and training of judges and magistrates will be granted to the JUDICIAL SCHOOL; to which end it will be structured and organised into three large services:

1. SELECTION
2. INITIAL TRAINING
3. ONGOING TRAINING

E) In accordance with Article 619 of the Organic Law, the technical body in charge of selecting, organising, processing, disseminating and publishing information on jurisprudence, doctrine and legislative affairs will be the JUDICIAL DOCUMENTATION CENTRE, which, pursuant to these ends, will be structured into the following subject areas:

1. PUBLICATIONS
2. COMPARATIVE LAW AND DOCUMENTATION
3. PLANNING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

F) Institutional communications functions correspond to the COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE, according to that set out by Article 620 of the Organic Law. This technical body depends directly on the President, who freely appoints and dismisses its Director, a post that must be reserved for a professional with accredited experience in public communications.

The Communications Office is present, as well as in the General Council of the Judiciary itself, in the central courts - The Supreme Court and the High Court - and in the seventeen High Courts of Justice.