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What it regulates
It regulates the Balearic Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and measures for research, awareness, training and prevention. It also introduces safety and health requirements for grants and public procurement. The regional framework operates within its powers and alongside national prevention legislation.
Who it applies to
Balearic Islands: the Institute’s preventive organisation and functions, awareness and training, grants and procurement. This entry covers the law’s OSH content; it does not reconstruct unrelated regimes amended by its final provisions or all later organisational implementation.
Key provisions
The Institute investigates accidents, occupational diseases and harm, provides technical support in safety, hygiene, ergonomics, psychosocial risks and occupational medicine, and coordinates with the competent bodies.
Article 6The Occupational Diseases Unit investigates and advises with a gender perspective, including conditions suspected of occupational origin. Its research role respects national powers over classification of occupational contingencies.
Article 20Education authorities must incorporate prevention objectives and content. The law develops training across educational stages and promotes preventive culture in society and businesses.
Article 35For grants covered by Article 41, businesses must demonstrate preventive arrangements and a prevention plan, and no final sanction for very serious OSH offences in the previous three years. Grant rules may consider accident-rate trends in the specified circumstances.
Article 42Procurement documents may specify preventive technical personnel and committed equipment where justified by the contract’s subject matter, within basic procurement legislation.
Article 43Regional procurement documents must require compliance with prevention legislation during performance. They may add conditions strengthening safety or training; penalties or termination depend on express contractual provisions and statutory limits.
Article 44History and versions
Initial publication: Butlletí Oficial de les Illes Balears (BOIB) · 07/08/2018
Butlletí Oficial de les Illes Balears (BOIB)BOE publication: 29/09/2018 · Initial entry into force: 08/08/2018
BOE-A-2018-13192Originally published in the BOIB on 7 August 2018; general commencement on 8 August; later BOE publication on 29 September 2018. The checked consolidated text retains its initial wording. Bilateral discussions begun in 2018 on Articles 6, 17 and 18 concluded with the agreement published on 23 April 2019, clarifying interpretation without rewriting them. This history is limited to the statute and that OSH-related agreement.
Original 2018 text establishes the institutional and preventive-promotion framework; distinguish BOIB and BOE publication.
BOE-A-2018-13192Final Bilateral Commission agreement, published 23 April 2019: voluntary registers and State participation; Article 18 does not affect national powers. The dispute is declared concluded.
BOE-A-2019-6061Text versions of the selected OSH provisions
| Publication | Effective date | Official reference | Affected provisions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07/08/2018 | 08/08/2018 | BOE-A-2018-13192 | Article 1, Article 2, Article 3, Article 4, Article 5, Article 6, Article 7, Article 8, Article 9, Article 10, Article 11, Article 12, Article 13, Article 14, Article 15, Article 16, Article 17, Article 18, Article 19, Article 20, Article 21, Article 22, Article 23, Article 24, Article 25, Article 26, Article 27, Article 28, Article 29, Article 30, Article 31, Article 32, Article 33, Article 34, Article 35, Article 36, Article 37, Article 38, Article 39, Article 40, Article 41, Article 42, Article 43, Article 44, Additional provision sole, Transitional provision first, Transitional provision second, Transitional provision third, Repealing provision sole, Final provision first, Final provision second, Final provision third, Final provision seventh, Final provision eighth |
Transitional provisions and application notes
The bilateral agreement published on 23 April 2019 specifies that registration in any business registers subsequently created is voluntary. Article 6’s enabling provision is not a general duty to register.
Official referenceThe same agreement makes the State’s participation under Article 17 voluntary and treats Article 18 as an internal allocation of reporting functions without affecting national powers. It is an interpretative agreement, not a textual amendment or annulment.
Official referenceMeeting these prevention requirements does not itself guarantee a grant: scope, calls, grant rules and other conditions must be checked. Procurement clauses do not replace risk assessment or duties under the Occupational Risk Prevention Act.
Article 42General commencement was 8 August 2018, following publication in the BOIB. The BOE publication on 29 September 2018 came later. Final provision eight contains specific effect rules for amendments to grant legislation that do not apply to the entire law.
Final provision eighth
Official BOE legal relationships
This record covers the history of the selected occupational safety and health provisions. The official analysis also provides the relationships affecting other subjects in the legislation.
Official BOE legal relationships
