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.