Article 16. The Executive Committee of the Council. Nature, composition and functions
1. The Executive Committee is the body responsible for ensuring the promotion and smooth running of the Barcelona Culture Council and for proposing, reporting on, and studying matters to be debated at the Plenary, as well as deliberating on them.
2. Likewise, the Executive Committee is responsible for organising mechanisms that enable the Council to fulfil its assigned functions:
a) Monitor projects and initiatives of the Council currently underway.
b) Propose the establishment of thematic working groups and other participatory approaches.
3. In addition, the Executive Committee exercises the executive functions of the Culture Council, specifically the following:
a) Participate in appointing members of the ICUB subsidy and grant committees responsible for making proposals on the allocation of cultural support grants and scholarships.
b) Propose panel members for the City of Barcelona awards to the Council Chair, according to the terms and conditions of these awards.
c) Be informed in advance about:
(i) The creation of new municipal cultural bodies or facilities.
(ii) Municipal regulatory and legislative projects that affect cultural or artistic policy matters.
(iii) The appointment of the heads of municipal cultural facilities.
d) All functions expressly assigned by the Council Plenary members.
e) Issue reports established as mandatory by current regulations.
f) Ensure integration of the gender perspective in the operation and performance of the Council’s functions.
4. The Executive Committee comprises seven persons:
a) The Vice-Chair of the Council, who acts as Chair of the Executive Committee.
The Vice-Chair is elected by the Council Plenary members by simple majority from among the seven independent persons of recognised prestige who make up the Executive Committee.
b) Six persons with distinguished careers and expertise, members of the Plenary.
The Executive Committee is elected by the Plenary through a simple majority vote via a previously presented candidacy. This candidacy is made up of seven persons chosen from the twelve independent Plenary members with distinguished careers and expertise within the Plenary and must have gender parity.
c) The person acting as Secretary of the Council, who attends Executive Committee meetings and also acts as Secretary of this body, with the right to speak but not to vote.