- Mayor
- Chair - City Government Commission
- Chair - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona Consortium
- Chair - Barcelona Mobile World Capital Foundation
- Chair - Barcelona Institute of Technology for the Habitat
- Chair - Picasso Museum Foundation
- Chair - Barcelona Cultura Foundation
- Chair of the municipal political group - PSC
The organisation
Barcelona City Council has two separate organisational levels: Political and Executive.
Find out how the City Council is organised. All the information you need is in the following sections.
Municipal organisation
Barcelona City Council is organised according to its own legislation, the Municipal Charter, which establishes two different levels: political, which defines strategy for the city, and executive, which is responsible for implementing specific policies in order to achieve defined goals.
The Municipal Charter sets out the main guidelines for running Barcelona City Council. It establishes an organisational structure based on two levels, political and executive, to ensure maximum effectiveness and efficiency in running the city.
The political level
This is made up of councillors who are responsible for the decision-making functions of planning, scheduling and monitoring.
It is made up of government bodies, including:
- The Municipal Council
- The Mayor
- The Municipal Government Commission
Municipal Council
The Municipal Council normally meets once a month, though it may hold an extraordinary meeting when necessary. The Municipal Council works through full meetings and committees.
Municipal Council committees deal with specific issues. They are created by the Full Municipal Council and consist of councillors from the various political parties, in proportion to each party's representation on the Council.
Permanent committees last for the municipal government's entire term of office and meet once a month; while special committees last for the duration of the tasks they were set up to perform.
Municipal groups which must have at least two councillors, group together councillors from the same electoral list who are representing their party at the City Council.
Each municipal group is represented by a spokesperson, who is generally authorised to act in the group's name.
The Board of Spokespersons is chaired by the Mayor and made up of the spokespersons for the various municipal groups. Its function is to discuss and debate the agendas of regular Full Municipal Council Meetings and deal with issues relating to its operations.
The Mayor
The Mayor is the person who chairs and represents the municipal corporation.
Among other things, she is responsible for managing the Municipal government and Administration and with convening and chairing Full Municipal Council Meetings and the Municipal Government Commission.
She is also responsible for appointing deputy mayors and the municipal government's councillors, as well as organising the
Executive Municipal Authority. Furthermore, she is responsible for the City Council's financial management, in accordance with its approved budget.
The Municipal Government Commission
This is the City Council's executive body. It is made up of the Mayor, as chair, and the deputy mayors and councillors she has appointed.
Its powers and duties are established in the Municipal Charter and by delegation from the Mayor and other municipal bodies.
District Councils
Barcelona is divided into ten districts, in order to decentralise its administration and provide attention for city residents locally. Each district is represented by its own District Council, along with the District Councillor and the Presiding District Councillor.
Executive structure
The executive structure is responsible for implementing Municipal Government and Municipal Council initiatives. Its highest executive is the Municipal Manager, who co-ordinates the municipal manager offices, along with the ten district municipal manager offices, which provide everyday municipal management to the city's 73 neighbourhoods.
The manager also supervises key City Council specialist organisations which are responsible for different thematic areas.
The executive structure is organised into manager's offices, run by the Municipal Manager, to cover all the City Council's management areas.
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The municipal corporation’s councillors
The 41 coucillors of the municipal Corporation.
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Junts per Catalunya (Trias per Barcelona)
PSC
Barcelona en Comú
ERC
PP
- Government bodies
Find out about the government bodies and the people who run them.
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Municipal Council
This is chaired by the mayor and hasa total of 41 city councillors:
Junts per Catalunya 11 | PSC 10 | BC 9 | ERC 5 | PP 4 | VOX 2
The Municipal Council operates through Full City Council meetings and committees. It has the power to make decisions and to promote and control the municipal government's actions.-
Full City Council
The Full City Council is Barcelona's highest political representative body. It meets in ordinary session every month .The councillors are organised into various political groups and, in addition to the Council, they are also represented on the Board of Spokespersons.
- Municipal political groups
Groups are made up of councillors and take part in plenary debates, comissions and bodies where City Council is represented. - Board of Spokespersons
This lends support to the Full City Council Meeting and is made up of the various municipal-group spokespersons. Its main task is to discuss and debate the Municipal Council's agenda.
- Municipal political groups
- Municipal Council Commissions
Full Council commissions are tasked with specific themes and meet periodically.
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The Mayor can delegate functions to city councillors in order to make the municipal government's work more effective.
- Deputy Mayor's Office
There are four Deputy Mayor Offices, which are organised by area.- Mayor’s Office
- Councillor for the Neighbourhood Plan
Josep Lluís Franco Rabell - Commissioner for Citizen Participation
Pedro Aguilera Cortés - Councillor for Sport
David Escudé Rodríguez - Commissioner for Culture and Creative Industries
Xavier Marcé Carol - Commissioner for International Relations and City Promotion
To be confirmed - Commissioner for European Affairs
Maria del Mar Jiménez Carreté
- Councillor for the Neighbourhood Plan
- First Deputy Mayor’s Office
Area for Urban Planning, Ecological Transition, Urban Services and Housing
Laia Bonet Rull- Commissioner for Housing
Joan Ramon Riera Alemany
- Commissioner for Housing
- Second Deputy Mayor’s Office
Area for Social Rights, Education and Cycles of Life
Maria Eugènia Gay Rosell- Councillor for Education and Senior Citizens
Josep Lluís Franco Rabell - Councillor for Health, People with Disabilities and the Strategy against Loneliness
Marta Villanueva Cendán - Councillor for Feminism, Equality and Democratic Memory
Raquel Gil Eiroá - Commissioner for Social Action
Sonia Fuertes Ledesma - Commissioner for Children, Adolescents, Youth and LGTBI Policies
Javier Rodríguez Núñez - Commissioner for Citizen Relations and Cultural and Religious Diversity
Sara Belbeida Bedoui
- Councillor for Education and Senior Citizens
- Third Deputy Mayor’s Office
Area for Prevention, Safety, Coexistence and Internal Affairs
Albert Batlle i Bastardas- Commissioner for the Ciutat Vella Pact
Ivan Pera Itxart - Commissioner for Coexistence
Montserrat Surroca Comas - Commissioner for Nightlife
Carmen Zapata Corbalán
- Commissioner for the Ciutat Vella Pact
- Fourth Deputy Mayor’s Office
Area for Economy, Tax, Economic Promotion and Tourism
Jordi Valls Riera- Councillor for Economic Promotion and Work
Raquel Gil Eiroá - Councillor for Commerce, Catering and Markets
Raquel Gil Eiroá
- Councillor for Economic Promotion and Work
- Mayor’s Office
- City Government Committee
This consists of the Mayor and the four Deputy Mayors and it co-ordinates the various municipal government areas and lays the ground for decision making.
- Deputy Mayor's Office
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City Government Commission
This consists of the Mayor as chair, the Deputy Mayors and councillors who are appointed by the Mayor as the Chair of the Committee.
- Municipal government team
Meet the members of the municipal government team.
- Councillor - City Council
- First Deputy Mayor's Office
- In charge of the Area of - Area for Urban Planning, Ecological Transition, Urban Services and Housing
- District Councillor - Gràcia District Councillor's Office
- Spokeswoman - Board of Spokespersons
- Chair - Board of Spokespersons
- Deputy Chair - Committee of Ecology, Urban Planning, Mobility and Housing
- Member - City Government Commission
- Member - Committee of Presidency, Security and Internal Affairs
- Chair - Municipal Institute for the Mies van der Rohe Foundation
- Deputy Chair - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Information Technology
- Chair - Municipal Institute of Urban Planning
- Chair - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Housing and Renovation
- Chair - Municipal Institute of Parks and Gardens
- Chair - Municipal Institute of Urban Landscape and Quality of Life
- Chair - Barcelona de Serveis Municipals, SA (BSM)
- Chair - Barcelona Regional
- Chair - Tractament i Selecció de Residus, SA
- Chair - Barcelona Municipal Infrastructures Group (BIMSA)
- Chair - Barcelona Water Cycle (BCASA)
- Chair - Barcelona Local Energy Agency
- Deputy Chair - Foment de Ciutat, SA
- Deputy Chair - Localret Consortium
- Member - Barcelona Mobile World Capital Foundation
- Member - Barcelona Institute of Technology for the Habitat
- 1st Deputy Chair - Barcelona Institute of Technology for the Habitat
- Councillor - City Council
- Second Deputy Mayor's Office
- In charge of the Area of - Area for Social Rights, Education and Cycles of Life
- District Councillor - Sarrià-Sant Gervasi District Councillor's Office
- Deputy Spokeswoman - Board of Spokespersons
- Deputy Chair - Committee of Presidency, Security and Internal Affairs
- Deputy Chair - Commission for Social Rights, Culture and Sports
- Member - City Government Commission
- Chair - Barcelona Institute of Culture
- Deputy Chair - Municipal Institute of Taxation
- Chair - Municipal Institute of Social Services
- Deputy Chair - Municipal Institute for People with Disabilities
- Chair - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Education
- Chair - L'Auditori de Barcelona Consortium
- Chair - Mercat de les Flors / Centre de les Arts de Moviment Consortium
- Member - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona Consortium
- Member - Fundació Casa Amèrica Catalunya
- 1st Deputy Chair - Picasso Museum Foundation
- Councillor - City Council
- Third Deputy Mayor's Office
- In charge of the Area of - Area for Prevention, Safety, Coexistence and Internal Affairs
- District Councillor - Ciutat Vella District Councillor's Office
- Chair - Committee of Presidency, Security and Internal Affairs
- Member - City Government Commission
- Member - Committee of Ecology, Urban Planning, Mobility and Housing
- Deputy Chair - Municipal Institute of Urban Planning
- Member - Picasso Museum Foundation
- Member - Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona Consortium
- Member - Julio Muñoz Ramonet Foundation
- District Councillor (non-elect) - Foment de Ciutat, SA
- Councillor - City Council
- Fourth Deputy Mayor's Office
- In charge of the Area of - Area for Economy, Tax, Economic Promotion and Tourism
- District Councillor - Eixample District Councillor's Office
- Member - City Government Commission
- Member - Commission for Economy and Finance
- Member - Committee of Ecology, Urban Planning, Mobility and Housing
- Chair - Municipal Institute of Taxation
- Deputy Chair - Municipal Institute for the Mies van der Rohe Foundation
- Chair - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Information Technology
- Deputy Chair - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Markets
- Deputy Chair - Municipal Institute of Parks and Gardens
- Chair - Consorci del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona Consortium
- Deputy Chair - Barcelona Activa (BASA)
- Deputy Chair - Barcelona de Serveis Municipals, SA (BSM)
- Deputy Chair - Barcelona Municipal Infrastructures Group (BIMSA)
- Member - Barcelona Nautical Capital Foundation, AC 24
- Member - Barcelona Mobile World Capital Foundation
- Member - Fundació Casa Amèrica Catalunya
- Councillor - City Council
- City Councillor - Councillor for the Neighbourhood Plan
- City Councillor - Councillor for Education and Senior Citizens
- District Councillor - Horta-Guinardó District Councillor's Office
- Member - City Government Commission
- Member - Committee of Presidency, Security and Internal Affairs
- Member - Municipal Institute of Social Services
- Deputy Chair - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Education
- Deputy Chair - Municipal Institute of Urban Landscape and Quality of Life
- Chair - Foment de Ciutat, SA
- Councillor - City Council
- City Councillor - Councillor for Sport
- District Councillor - Les Corts District Councillor's Office
- District Councillor - Sant Martí District Councillor's Office
- Member - City Government Commission
- Member - Commission for Social Rights, Culture and Sports
- Chair - Barcelona Institute of Sport
- Member - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Education
- Member - Municipal Institute of Parks and Gardens
- District Councillor - Barcelona de Serveis Municipals, SA (BSM)
- District Councillor - Barcelona Municipal Infrastructures Group (BIMSA)
- Member - Barcelona Institute of Technology for the Habitat
- Councillor - City Council
- City Councillor - Councillor for Health, People with Disabilities and the Strategy against Loneliness
- District Councillor - Sant Andreu District Councillor's Office
- Member - City Government Commission
- Member - Commission for Economy and Finance
- Member - Commission for Social Rights, Culture and Sports
- Deputy Chair - Municipal Institute of Social Services
- Chair - Municipal Institute for People with Disabilities
- Deputy Chair - Barcelona Institute of Sport
- Member - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Education
- Deputy Chair - Barcelona Water Cycle (BCASA)
- Councillor - City Council
- City Councillor - Councillor for Economic Promotion and Work
- City Councillor - Councillor for Commerce, Catering and Markets
- City Councillor - Councillor for Feminism, Equality and Democratic Memory
- District Councillor - Sants-Montjuïc District Councillor's Office
- Deputy Chair - Commission for Economy and Finance
- Member - City Government Commission
- Member - Committee of Ecology, Urban Planning, Mobility and Housing
- Member - Barcelona Institute of Culture
- Member - Municipal Institute of Taxation
- Member - Municipal Institute of Social Services
- Member - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Information Technology
- Member - Municipal Institute of Urban Planning
- Chair - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Markets
- Deputy Chair - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Housing and Renovation
- Member - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Education
- Chair - Barcelona Activa (BASA)
- Councillor - City Council
- City Councillor - Councillor for Culture and Creative Industries
- District Councillor - Nou Barris District Councillor's Office
- Member - City Government Commission
- Member - Commission for Economy and Finance
- Member - Commission for Social Rights, Culture and Sports
- Deputy Chair - Barcelona Institute of Culture
- Deputy Chair - Barcelona Cultura Foundation
- Member - Consorci del Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona Consortium
- Member - Picasso Museum Foundation
- Member - L'Auditori de Barcelona Consortium
Comissioners
- Commissioner - Commissioner for Citizen Participation
- Commissioner - Comissionat d'Afers Europeus
- Commissioner - Commissioner for Housing
- Member - Municipal Institute of Urban Planning
- Member - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Housing and Renovation
- Member - Municipal Institute of Urban Landscape and Quality of Life
- Commissioner - Commissioner for Social Action
- Member - Municipal Institute of Social Services
- Commissioner - Commissioner for Children, Adolescents, Youth and LGTBI Policies
- Member - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Education
- Commissioner - Commissioner for Citizen Relations and Cultural and Religious Diversity
- Commissioner - Commissioner for the Ciutat Vella Pact
- Member - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Education
- Member - Foment de Ciutat, SA
- Commissioner - Commissioner for Coexistence
- Commissioner - Commissioner for Nightlife
- Territorial organisation
Barcelona is divided into ten districts. Meet your local municipal managers.
Barcelona is organised into ten districts. This enables it to decentralise administration and promote public participation in decision-making, insofar as it is appropriate for the specific needs of each city area.
Municipal Districts
- Executive structure
Find out about the city's everyday administration and meet its managers.
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Mayor's Office
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Municipal Manager's Office
Laia Claverol Torres-
- Barcelona de Serveis Municipals (BSM) Group
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- Manager’s Office for the Area of Resources and Digital Transformation
Agustín Abelaira Dapena-
- Manager's Office for General Services
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- Municipal Institute of Information Technology
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- Manager's Office for People, Organisation and E-Government
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- Barcelona Information and Communication (ICB)
Sergi Vicente Martínez
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- Manager's Office for General Services
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- Manager's Office for the Area of Urban Planning and Housing
Joan Cambronero Fernández-
- Manager’s Office for the Chief Architect
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- Barcelona Municipal Institute of Housing and Renovation
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- Manager's Office for Urban Planning
David Martínez García -
- Municipal Institute of Urban Planning
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- Manager’s Office for Housing
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- Municipal Institute of Urban Landscape and Quality of Lifea
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- Municipal Institute for the Mies van der Rohe Foundation
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- Barcelona Municipal Infrastructures Group (BIMSA)
Ricard Font Hereu
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- Manager’s Office for the Chief Architect
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- Manager's Office for the Area of Mobility, Infrastructures and Urban Services
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- Manager’s Office for Urban Services and Maintenance of Public Space
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- Municipal Institute of Parks and Gardens
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- Chief Engineer
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- Barcelona Water Cycle (BCASA)
Cristina Vila Rutllant
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- Manager’s Office for Urban Services and Maintenance of Public Space
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- Manager’s Office for the Area of Social Rights, Health, Cooperation and Community
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- Municipal Institute of Social Services
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- Municipal Institute for People with Disabilities
Marta Obdulia Gómez
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- Municipal Institute of Social Services
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- Manager’s Office for the Area of Culture, Education, Sports and Life Cycles
Elisenda Rius Bergua- - Manager’s Office for Culture, Sport and Neighbourhood Planning
Maria Elena Amat Serrano - - Barcelona Institute of Culture
Oriol Martí Sambola - - Barcelona Municipal Institute of Education
Jordi Sánchez Masip - - Barcelona Institute of Sport
Susana Closa Castella
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- Manager's Office for the Area of Security, Prevention and Coexistence
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- Manager's Office for the Area of Economy and Economic Promotion
Antoni Fernández Pérez-
- Manager's Office for Budgets and Taxation
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- Municipal Institute of Taxation
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- Manager's Office for Economic Promotion
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- Barcelona Municipal Institute of Markets
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- Manager’s Office for Commerce, Restaurants, Food and Markets
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- Barcelona Activa (BASA)
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- Foment de Ciutat
Àlex Montes Flotats
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- Manager's Office for Budgets and Taxation
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Manager's Office for Territorial Coordination and Proximity
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- Manager's Office for the District of Ciutat Vella
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- Manager’s Office for the District of L’Eixample
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- Manager's Office for the District of Sants-Montjuïc
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- Manager's Office for the District of Les Corts
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- Manager's Office for the District of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi
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- Manager's Office for the District of Gràcia
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- Manager's Office for the District of Horta-Guinardó
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- Manager's Office for the District of Nou Barris
Gabriel Duarte García -
- Manager's Office for the District of Sant Andreu
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- Manager's Office for the District of Sant Martí
Josep García Puga
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- Manager's Office for the District of Ciutat Vella
Marta Labata Salvador
- Foment de ciutat
Àlex Montes Flotats
Sectoral manager's offices -
- Manager’s Office for the Area of Resources and Digital Transformation
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Municipal Manager's Office
- Subsidiary entities
Discover the subsidiary organisations the City Council is provided with to run its services better.
Subsidiary entities
Barcelona City Council has a series of affiliated dependent organisations for the efficient and sustainable development of its services. These are legal bodies in their own right, with their own assets, that are set up for specific purposes, taking into account economic performance and investment recovery criteria.
List of subsidiary bodies (XLSX)
Creating these bodies allows us to manage certain services in an efficient and specialised manner, achieve greater management autonomy and flexibility, and objectively serve the general interest while acting in accordance with the principles of efficiency, hierarchy, decentralisation, deconcentration and coordination, in full compliance with the Constitution and the Law.
In addition, with the goal of fostering the city’s general interests and improving the quality of life of its citizens, the City Council takes part in decision-making in spheres where these may be affected and collaborates with other administrations and private bodies in areas of mutual interest or shared powers. At the same time, it directly or indirectly participates, to varying degrees, in a number of companies and is represented in different consortiums, foundations and associations.-
Local independent bodies
These are municipal public bodies with their own legal personality and management independence. They are governed by administrative law and are tasked, under the operational administrative decentralisation system, with carrying out promotional activities, benefit activities and public-service management.
Local independent bodies
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Public business entities
These are municipal public bodies that are tasked with carrying out activities, managing services and producing assets of public interest, subject to consideration. They are governed by private law, except when running their government bodies, exercising the administrative powers they are granted and in certain areas specifically regulated by legislation.
Public business entities
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Municipal trading companies
These are companies funded entirely with municipal capital. They are trading companies created by City Council with exclusively municipal share capital, for managing services under a decentralised private-law system. They are companies governed wholly by commercial law. These companies, which the public administration runs its public services through, operate in the market under the same conditions as strictly private trading companies. Municipal-majority trading companies are companies that Barcelona City Council has a shareholding of over 50% in.
Municipal trading companies
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Municipal-minority trading companies
Trading companies in which the City Council has a shareholding, either directly or through its subsidiary trading companies, of under 50%.
Municipal-minority trading companies
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BCN Emprèn, SCR SA
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Catalana Iniciatives CR, SA
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Barcelona Aparcaments Municipals, SA
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Barcelona Regional Agència de Desenvolupament Urbà, SA
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Barcelona Sagrera Alta Velocitat, SA
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Fira 2000, SA
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Habitatge Metròpolis Barcelona
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Consortiums
Consortiums that the City Council participates in and which are classed by the General Intervention Board of the State Administration as Barcelona City Council subsidiaries. The classification is based on various criteria, such as the number of members in government bodies and contributions made, and requires these entities to have their budgets consolidated with those of the municipal group.
Consortiums
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Foundations
Foundations that the City Council participates in and which are classed by the General Intervention Board of the State Administration as Barcelona City Council subsidiaries. The classification is based on various criteria, such as the number of members in government bodies and contributions made, and requires these entities to have their budgets consolidated with those of the municipal group.
Foundations
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Associations
Associations that City Council participates in and which are classed by the General Intervention Board of the State Administration as Barcelona City Council subsidiaries. The classification is based on various criteria, such as the number of members in government bodies and contributions made, and requires these entities to have their budgets consolidated with those of the municipal group.
Associations
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- Municipal Organisation Chart