[9] Finally, in 1997 and according to the new territorial organization of the State that emerged from the 1978 Constitution, the Labour and Social Security Inspection System was configured as an integrated institutional set, whose functions are exercised respecting the powers of the State and of the Autonomous Communities, reason why the conditions of participation of these regions in the development of the Labour and Social Security Inspection System are established.

Consequently, this Law defines an institutional system for Labour and Social Security Inspection that is jointly established within the scope of the State and the Autonomous Communities, based on their respective competences and under the principle of inter-institutional collaboration.

[11] In 2015, an important novelty is produced, and that is that the Labour and Social Security Inspection System Act provides for the transformation of the Inspectorate through the granting of its own legal personality and differentiated from that of the government, by configuring it as an autonomous agency.

[2] However, this clause was not immediately applied, and it was not until early 2018 that the Directorate-General for Labour and Social Security Inspection is abolished and the current autonomous agency is created.

In addition, it has a General Council to facilitate the institutional participation in the agency of Public Administrations and social groups.

[12] The Governing Council is a collective body integrated by representatives of the General State Administration and the Autonomous Communities.

To the Governing Council' meetings may attend, with voice but no vote, who are summoned by the same to inform about matters of their competence or specialty.

The director is appointed by royal decree, at the proposal of the Minister of Labour among career civil servants belonging to the Inspection Corps.

The General Council is the body of institutional participation to make it easy for the other public administrations and social groups to be present in the agency.

[12] The central structure is composed of all those bodies with the rank of deputy directorates-general that depend directly on the Director of the Labour and Social Security Inspectorate, and they are: As established by the Labour and Social Security Inspection System Act, the agency is deployed throughout the national territory, and it is structured through: