General Information

The composition and competences of the Commission for Information Technology within the Judiciary are outlined in Regulation 1/2005, concerning the incidental aspects of judicial activity, approved by the decision of the Plenary Session of the General Council of the Judiciary issued on the 15th of September 2005, more specifically, in articles 98 to 102 of this Regulation.

The Commission for Information Technology within the Judiciary is composed by a Delegate for the Judicial Office and Information Technology, who presides the body, and four magistrates, one for each jurisdictional sphere, who are assigned by the Plenary of the Council. The Delegate is assisted by the Director of the Technical Office and the Lawyers who have been assigned to the Commission. The Commission can convene sessions, which may be attended by representatives of the Public Administrations charged with overseeing the material resources to be put to the service of the Judicial Administration. 

The Commission for Information Technology within the Judiciary is expressly assigned the task of submitting proposals to the Plenary of the General Council of the Judiciary for the approval of the computer programs and applications envisaged in article 230.5 of the Organic Law on the Judiciary and is obliged to define the characteristics that the computer systems within the Judicial Administration must possess. To this end, it deliberates and decides upon the proposals for the approval of programs and applications that are submitted to the Governing Chambers of the High Courts of Justice, the National High Court and the Supreme Court, which are accompanied by a report issued by the bodies charged with overseeing the material resources to be put to the service of the Judicial Administration, or by the bodies charged with overseeing the proposals presented by Public Administrations with competence for the material resources to be put to the service of the Judicial Administration, which are accompanied by reports issued by the Governing Chambers of the High Court of Justice, National High Court or Supreme Court.

In addition, it exchanges information with the bodies within the Ministry of Justice and the State Prosecutor's Office or with the Autonomous Regions charged with overseeing the material resources to be put to the service of the Judicial Administration for the optimal execution of the plans for the computerisation of the Judicial Administration.