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    Spain · National · Resolution

    Resolution of 17 February 2004: the initial OSH management model for Spain’s General State Administration

    Institutional predecessor: model updated in 2013

    Official Spanish title: Resolución de 17 de febrero de 2004, de la Secretaría de Estado para la Administración Pública, por la que se aprueba y dispone la publicación del modelo de Sistema de Gestión de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales para la Administración General del Estado.

    Original publication and analysisELI identifier
    On this page
    1. What it regulates
    2. Who it applies to
    3. Key provisions
    4. History and versions
    5. Transitional provisions and application notes
    6. Official BOE legal relationships
    7. Official sources
    8. Explore the concepts in Sabentis Explore

    What it regulates

    Approved the common OSH management model for the General State Administration, its manual and basic procedures. It required departments and public bodies to develop their own instruments using that model. Its present value is to explain the system’s origin; an express update followed in 2013.

    Who it applies to

    Internal prevention arrangements of departments and public bodies within the General State Administration. Published among other administrative provisions, this resolution is neither a certification standard nor a requirement that every private business or territorial administration adopt its model.

    Key provisions

    Approves the management system, manual and basic procedures as reference instruments for integrating prevention into administrative management.

    First provision

    Departments and bodies must establish and maintain their own system, manual and procedures, using the approved models as reference and guidance.

    Second provision

    Under-secretariats were to issue implementation instructions and prepare a prevention policy statement within six months of publication.

    Second provision · historical deadline

    Assigns review, improvement and updating of the instruments to the Directorate-General for the Civil Service. It identifies access routes for the documents, but the historical address and portals are not presented here as verified current channels.

    Third provision

    History and versions

    BOE publication: 05/03/2004 · Initial entry into force: No specific commencement date set in the text; see application notes

    BOE-A-2004-4091

    Adopted under Royal Decree 1488/1998 and the 2002 Administration–Trade Union Agreement. The 2013 resolution expressly recalls this model, identifies the need to complete implementation and approves its update. Continuity of the system does not mean that each 2004 document remains applicable.

    Royal Decree 67/2010: the new OSH adaptation framework for the General State Administration.

    BOE-A-2010-2161

    Resolution of 15 November 2013: express update of the 2004 model.

    BOE-A-2013-12862

    This record links to the original publication and subsequent instruments. No separate consolidated BOE text has been identified for this instrument.

    Transitional provisions and application notes

    • The Resolution of 15 November 2013 updates the system and requires adaptation of its manual, plan and procedures. No express total-repeal clause for the 2004 resolution has been identified in it; the update is described without inventing a formal repeal date.

      2013 update

    • Royal Decree 67/2010 replaced the adaptation framework of Royal Decree 1488/1998 cited in 2004. The applicable later rules, the LPRL and the Prevention Services Regulation must be used.

      Later framework

    • Published on 5 March 2004. The text does not specify a separate commencement date that can be equated with the six-month implementation period. This entry does not reproduce or validate every operational system document.

      Publication and documents

    Official BOE legal relationships

    Relationships may affect only specific provisions. They do not by themselves determine the status of the whole instrument: consult its history and application notes.

    Earlier references (2)
    Subsequent references (1)

    Official sources

    Official sources checked on 14/11/2026. Updating a database record does not by itself mean that the legislation has been amended.

    1. BOE-A-2004-4091
    2. ELI identifier
    3. BOE-A-2010-2161
    4. BOE-A-2013-12862

    Official sources checked on 14 November 2026. The original publication and subsequent provisions determine the legal scope; consolidation, where available, is informative. The editorial history focuses on OSH-relevant relationships and does not replace the sources.

    Sabentis editorial translation; it is not an official translation and does not replace the official text.

    Editorial information

    Publication date: 14 November 2026.

    Editorial responsibility: Sabentis editorial team.

    Editorial review by Pablo RodríguezLinkedIn

    Executive Vice President of the International ORP Foundation and Chief Financial Officer of Sabentis.

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