To foster the organisation of professional public management once and for all at Catalan public administrations, starting with directorate generals

It is vital to organise a professional public management system by means of an up-to-date regulatory framework defining the rights and obligations of a figure that will make it possible to deliver stability within administrative structures and to separate political careers from professional careers through differing promotion mechanisms and incentives. The regulation of this new figure will make it possible to strengthen management ability within core structures, particularly in those where pertinent management abilities are required, establishing entrance systems that assure professionalism and thoroughness of delivery and assessment of performance. Along these lines, it has been proposed that directorate generals (or units of an equivalent hierarchical rank) and all management positions beneath them should be classified as public managers and should not be tied in with changes in the policy cycle.