LHigh levels of competition and growing market demands resulting from the introduction of new technologies which affect products and processes mean that companies have to become more flexible, and that they have to add technological value to products and to the processes and implementation of new management systems.

This department works for the development, improvement and competitive change of companies.

THE STRUCTURE OF THE DEPARTMENT FOR THE PROMOTION OF TECHNOLOGY IS DIVIVED INTO
FOUR LARGE SERVICE AREAS:

1 STANDARDISATION AND SAFETY
2 R&D
3 INNOVATION
4 INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT
5 THE ENVIRONMENT

1 STANDARDISATION AND SAFETY

1. AENOR Standardisation Technical Committees: participation in the creation of Standards, a vote on EN Standards, the compilation of UNE/EN Standards.
2. Safety: to create machinery technical files and to carry out risk evaluation and the revision of machinery technical files.
3. Information, Consultations and Advice: applicable legislation, certification and approval
4. Sale of Standards

2 R&D

1. Comprehensive project management: external collaboration - technological cooperation, finding financing, aid programme applications and submissions, project certification.
2. Information, Consultations and Advice: aid programme announcements, tax relief, industrial design, patents and industrial security.

3 INNOVATION

1. Technological Surveillance and Competitive Intelligence: legislative alert, regulatory alert, technological alert, event alert.
2. Project Management: Information on Aid Programme Announcements, finding financing, and aid programme applications and submissions.
3. Information, Consultations and Advice: innovation management, knowledge management, tax relief, new technologies, business organisation and management, production
   and logistics.

4 INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT

1. Sector Technological Studies
2. Information, consultations and advice: quality, the environment and occupational hazard relief.

5 THE ENVIRONMENT

Comprehensive project management: external collaboration - technological cooperation, finding financing, aid programme applications and submissions, project certification.

• Information, consultations and advice: Aid programme announcements, tax relief and industrial design.