Control Bodies (OC), Inspection and Industrial Control Entities (EICI), Administration Collaborating Entities (ECA) and Intermediary Entities (EI)

The CBs are entities (individuals or legal entities) that are authorized by the Administration to verify compliance with the conditions and requirements established in the security regulations for industrial and mining products and facilities. They make, for example, PERIODICS INSPECTIONS electrical installations, elevators, etc.

CBs are accredited by the National Accreditation Entity (ENAC), which guarantees that they have the necessary conditions and requirements, such as independence, professional integrity and technical competence, and are governed by Law 21/1992, of 16 July, Industry, and by the Regulation of the Infrastructure for Quality and Industrial Safety, approved by the Royal Decree 2200 / 1995, of 28 of December.

The OCs request their qualification in the autonomous community where they access the activity as a control body, and from that moment on may act throughout the Spanish territorial area. The autonomous community registers them in the Integrated Industrial Registry, which is nationwide. Thus, to verify the qualification of an entity such as OC, you should consult Division C of the Industrial Integrated Registry.

Among the obligations of the OCs are the following:

- Solve the applications that they are presented.

- Notify the owner or interested party (and the Administration) of the deficiencies and anomalies found and the deadlines in which they must be corrected.

- Notify the owner or interested party (and the Administration) of the need to interrupt the activity inspected when it is appreciated that it does not offer the due guarantees of industrial safety, proposing the necessary measures to correct the situation.

- Adopt special preventive measures, informing the competent authorities immediately, in cases of serious risk of accident or emergency.

- Answer the claims that can be received from customers, affected parties or others affected.

The EICIs are entities created and regulated by the Community of Madrid for the commissioning and registration of industrial facilities, as well as for certain established regulatory approvals. The EICI are control bodies that also meet a series of additional requirements, which enable them to carry out certain functions that, until their creation, had been carried out exclusively by the General Directorate for Economic and Industrial Promotion (DGPEI). These entities must be expressly authorized by the DGPEI and they can only act in the Community of Madrid.

In some regulatory fields, the EICI are those that perform the administrative procedure of COMMISSIONING of the facilities, and the owners of said facilities must resort to an EICI to legalize their installation. In these cases, the procedures are "outsourced" by the current Ministry of Economy, Finance and Employment.

The collaborating entities of the administration (ECA) are companies whose purpose is to verify the safety conditions of the facilities regulated by the General Regulation of Basic Mining Safety Standards, through certification, testing, inspection or audit activities, always in the MINING FIELD.

The ECAs must be accredited by the National Accreditation Entity (ENAC) to be able to exercise their activities; They must also be authorized expressly by the competent body of the autonomous community where they start their activity or establish their facilities. The authorization is valid Throughout the Spanish territory. The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has on its website a list of all ECAs that are authorized in Spain.