IRTA Legal Services is the body designated to assume the functions corresponding to the Information Unit.
You can address your requests for information in this regard to the email address:
1. MISSION, VISION AND VALUES
Mission: To contribute to the modernization, competitiveness and sustainable development of the agricultural, food and aquaculture sectors, to the supply of healthy and quality food for consumers and, in general, to the improvement of the well-being of the population.
Vision: To become a scientific reference, a driver of innovation and technology transfer. We want to be the strategic ally of the agri-food sector.
Values: Integrity, Commitment, Respect for the environment and Excellence.
The functions of IRTA
The functions of IRTA are:
Research and experimental development (R&D). IRTA has a portfolio of projects in progress, the financing of which is provided by the Institute itself, regional bodies (CIRIT, etc.), state bodies (National R&D Plan, INIA, etc.) or international bodies (EU H2020 Programme and others). Likewise, part of the R&D activity is financed by the private sector through contractual research.
Technology transfer. IRTA’s scientific activity is inspired by a vision of applicability and assessment of advances and acts according to the most appropriate transfer mechanisms in each case:
In this technology transfer process, IRTA may create and/or participate in companies for the valorization/commercialization of knowledge, goods or services generated by its activity.
Contractual research. IRTA makes its scientific capacity available to companies, associations and/or groups to evaluate, compare or develop products, services and procedures. A research contract establishes precisely and by mutual agreement the objectives pursued, the methodology to be used, the planned timetables and the technical, economic and legal obligations of the parties. Confidentiality is guaranteed when this is established in the contract and the nature of the collaboration justifies it.
Technical assistance and specialized training. IRTA can provide technical assistance and specialized advice to groups, companies and agents in the sectors in which it carries out its activity, under contractual formulas, which specify the objectives and purposes of the relationship, the technical and economic consideration, the timetable and its validity.
It also carries out specialized training functions by organizing courses, seminars and facilitating the stay of technical personnel or university graduates, in its centers or laboratories.
The IRTA Law
Law 23/1985, of 28 November, created the Institute of Agro-Food Research and Technology, better known as IRTA. It involved concentrating in a single entity a series of centres, services and institutes that depended on or had relations with provincial councils, universities and the Generalitat itself, and that worked in the field of research in the agri-food sector. IRTA was created as a public law entity, whose activity was subject to private law. The regulation that was made followed the indications of the Law on the Statute of the Catalan Public Company.
· Collegiate bodies of the entity:
· General Director:
· Management positions:
· Scheduled contracts: List of contracts that are expected to be tendered during the next year.
· Contractual modifications, contract extensions, cancelled tenders and early resolutions.
· Resolutions of special appeals and final judicial resolutions in matters of procurement.
· Acts of withdrawal and resignation.
· Concession contracts for public works and services.
· Minor Procurement
(This information will be provided through a link to the Public Procurement Services Platform and the Public Contracts Registry).
· Data from the official register of bidders and classified companies (RELI).
· Public Procurement Services Platform.
· Contracting entities and bodies (contractor profile). Information to be published: Exact name of the contracting entities and bodies.
· Interpretative agreements and criteria, binding answers and frequently asked questions.
· Statistical data. Information to be published: At least:
· Studies and reports.
· Agreements.
· Management assignments.
· Most frequently asked questions and answers in procurement inquiries.
· Approved, executed and liquidated budgets. Information to be published: The budget, (PDF or Excel document with the budget in progress of IRTA’s income and expenses approved by the Parliament of Catalonia, detailed by budget items).
· Annual accounts. (PDF or Excel documents with annual accounts and audit report).
· Economic and financial control.
(Link to an Excel in a single document.)
· Request for public information by sending an email to: transparencia@irta.cat. The Gencat guide recommends that information that is the subject of a recurring or repeated request for access to public information be proactively incorporated into the website of the entity dedicated to active publicity of the corresponding matter, which is the Commission for the Guarantee of the Right to Access to Public Information (GAIP).
· Indicate: You can find information on the right to access public information and its exercise in the Access to public information section of the Gencat Open Government portal https://www.gaip.cat/ca/inici/
The obligations of good governance (Chapter I of Title V of the LTAIPBG) apply to persons who hold senior positions. When there is no information for the reference period, this circumstance must be stated.
Codes of conduct, good practices, ethics and deontology
and other codes of conduct, good practices and ethics in general and other related information to which IRTA has adhered or is applicable. In the event that these provide for casuistics (e.g. invitations, trips or gifts), information related to the Code of Conduct for senior officials and management personnel is published.
