Unión Profesional is structured as follows:

• Chairman
• Technical Secretariat
• Communications Department

• Governing bodies:
  • General Assembly
  • Executive Committee

• Specialist committees: 
  • Legal Affairs Committee
  • Environment Committee
  • Professional Training and Access Committee
  • Tax Committee
  • Bylaws Committee
  • International Committee
  • Image and Communication Committee

 

CHAIRMAN'S OFFICE

Carlos Carnicer Díez

• presidencia@unionprofesional.com
  

TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT

Gonzalo Múzquiz Vicente-Arche 

• up@unionprofesional.com

   

COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT

Carmen Muñoz Jodar

• prensa@unionprofesional.com
  

 

Lagasca, 50-3º B

28001 MADRID

Tel: 91-578 42 39 /38

Fax: 91-575 86 83

 

GOVERNING BODIES

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The General Assembly is made up of the forty chairs of the Unión Profesional-member professional bodies.

 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

• D. Carlos Carnicer Díez, Chairman of Consejo General de la Abogacía Española (the Spanish law society) and Chairman of Unión Profesional
• D. Isacio Siguero Zurdo, Chairman of Consejo General de C.O. de Médicos (the general council of Spanish medical associations) and Vice Chairman of Unión Profesional
• D. José Antonio Otero Cerezo, Chairman of Consejo General de Arquitectos Técnicos (architectural engineers) and Vice Chairman of Unión Profesional
• D. Carlos Hernández Pezzi, Chairman of Consejo Superior de C. de Arquitectos de España (architects) and Vice Chairman of Unión Profesional
• D. Edelmiro Rúa Álvarez, Chairman-Dean of Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (engineers of Ways, Channels and Ports) and Vice Chairman of Unión Profesional
• D. Vicente Martínez García, Chairman of Consejo General de C.O. de Ingenieros Técnicos Industriales (industrial engineers, diploma-holders) and Vice Chairman of Unión Profesional
• D. Juan Carlos Estévez Fernández-Novoa, Chairman of Consejo General de C. de Procuradores de los Tribunales de España (solicitors) and General Secretary of Unión Profesional
• D. Gonzalo Echagüe Mendez-Vigo, Chairman of Colegio Oficial de Físicos (physicists) and Vice Secretary de Unión Profesional
• D. Emilio Viejo Fraile, Chairman of Consejo General de Ingenieros Técnicos Agrícolas (agricultural angineers) and Vice Secretary of Unión Profesional
• D. Máximo González Jurado, Chairman of Consejo General de Enfermería (nursing) and Treasurer of Unión Profesional
• D. Enrique Gutiérrez Bueno, Chairman of Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (engineers of Telecommunication) and Vice Treasurer of Unión Profesional
• D. Lorenzo Lara Lara, Chairman of Consejo Superior de C. de Titulados Mercantiles (chartered accountants and auditors) and Controller of Unión Profesional

SPECIALIST COMMITTEES

LEGAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

The Legal Affairs Committee coordinates and oversees Unión Profesional’s activities in connection with national and regional legal developments relating to the regulated professions.
The Committee examines all legal texts produced by the various levels of government with regard to professional bodies and keeps Unión Profesional members informed.

ENVIRONMENT AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSABILITY (CSR) COMMITTEE

The Environment and CSR Committee coordinates Unión Profesional members’ activities in the fields of the environment and corporate social responsibility.
The Committee tracks local, regional, national and European statutory developments on the environment and plays an active role in organising the national environmental conferences staged by the Fundación CONAMA of the Colegio Oficial de Físicos (the professional body of physicists). Unión Profesional is a trustee of CONAMA. In 2004, Unión Profesional published the book Las profesiones españolas ante el reto del desarrollo sostenible (“The Spanish professions and the challenge of sustainable development”).

 

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND ACCESS COMMITTEE

The Professional Training and Access Committee examines the various ways of joining the liberal professions represented in Unión Profesional and follows up initiatives relating to the ongoing theoretical and practical training of practising professionals. The Committee’s role involves two major courses of action: first, the process of building the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), known as the Bologna Process;  second, the recognition of third-country qualifications.

 

TAX COMMITTEE

The Tax Committee monitors any initiatives entailing change to the tax rules affecting certified professionals in private practice and professional bodies.

 

BYLAWS COMMITTEE

The Bylaws Committee reviews and oversees all matters relating to the rules of the professional bodies in Unión Profesional, and Unión Profesional’s own bylaws.

 

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE

The International Committee maintains and foments Unión Profesional’s relations with the international bodies of which it is a member, the World Union of Professions (UMPL) and the European Council of the Liberal Professions (CEPLIS), and with other organizations whose activities may have a bearing on professional bodies (the UN, the European Commission and its directorates general, GATS, the World Trade Organization, the EU Economic and Social Committee, and so forth).

 

IMAGE AND COMMUNICATION COMMITTEE

The Image and Communication Committee coordinates the policies and strategies of the Chairman, the General Secretary, the Technical Secretariat and the Communications Department of Unión Profesional and of its related professional bodies. The Committee’s aim is gradually to professionalise communications management in professional bodies and integrate it with their overall strategy. The Committee has therefore set up the Communications Directors Working Group and has run seminars on communications.