The Generalitat requires an average level of Valencian to be a senior official

Oppositions held in Valencia, in September 2020.

The person who wants to apply for a position of senior official of the Valencian Generalitat (A1 and A2) must prove from 2025 an average level of knowledge of Valencian, C1, what was known as the

.

If you have passed the two Baccalaureate courses with at least a seven in both cases, you will automatically receive that C1 accreditation from the Ministry of Education.

Only by passing this subject in the aforementioned courses will the B2 level be obtained (between elementary, B1, and intermediate, C1), with which you can aspire to groups B and C1 of the civil service.

The same thing will happen, at its different levels, with the opponents of the autonomous public bodies, the consortia attached to the Generalitat, local entities and non-teaching staff of Valencian public universities.

The language requirement will not affect officials who already have a position, but it will affect temporary employees who want to access it.

These are some of the main characteristics of the language requirement that will be applied in the Valencian Community by virtue of the agreement reached between the ministries of Justice, Interior and Public Administration and that of Education, Culture and Sports, directed by Gabriela Bravo, from the PSPV-PSOE , and Raquel Tamarit, from Compromís, respectively.

This agreement does not apply to applicants for public examinations in the educational and health fields.

In the first, the level of linguistic competence is higher and has its own regulations, and in the second, the current situation marked by the 2017 regulations will be maintained: doctors and patients, and health workers in general, will not be required to the linguistic requirement, but their knowledge of Valencian will be evaluated as a merit in the oppositions.

This was one of the sticking points.

Raquel Tamarit and Gabriela Bravo, this Monday, in their appearance.

GVA (GVA)

The agreement will be conveyed through separate decrees of the two ministries, whose holders have shown themselves very satisfied this Monday to have reached an agreement on a very sensitive matter.

Not surprisingly, the socialist and Compromís representatives in the Valencian coalition government (the third partner is Unides Podem) have been locked in discussions for months.

The implementation of the language requirement is part of the agreement between the partners of the Consell.

The socialist position has always been more lax or flexible and that of Compromís, more demanding and harsh, according to the different sources consulted.

Finally, the Valencian model is more similar to the tax in Galicia than to that of Catalonia or the Balearic Islands, where health workers, for example, do need to prove a certain level of knowledge of the native language.

Last year,

Bravo and Tamarit have defended this regulatory deployment to guarantee that citizens can choose the official language, Spanish or Valencian, with which they address officials, complying with the Statute of Autonomy.

There will be a transitional period until 2025. "The right of Valencians to choose the language they want is at stake", stressed the head of Administration, while that of Education has ensured that the Valencian Community will thus be "at the level" of other autonomies with their own language such as Galicia.

Both counselors have thanked each other for their willingness to negotiate.

The decree, which will be deployed by the Ministry of Justice, the Interior and Public Administration, will regulate the levels of linguistic training in Valencian for each civil service category "with the ultimate goal of providing an optimal service to citizens from the Valencian public administrations".

"In this way, the linguistic competence in both official languages ​​is equated for the attention to the citizen and administrative processing by the personnel that exercises the public function", points out the Ministry of Education.

The degrees of training of each body of civil servants is agreed upon.

People who compete to compete at the level of officials A1 and A2, that is, senior officials with university studies, must have a C1 level of Valencian;

Candidates for civil servant group B must have a B2 level of Valencian;

Those who aspire to the C1 subgroup must have a B2 level of Valencian training, and those in the C2 subgroup, with a B1 level of Valencian.

Finally, people who aspire to a civil servant professional group must have the A2 certificate of Valencian.

This decree is expected to come into force during the first semester of 2023. The possible oppositions to access the civil servant groups of the categories of groups B, C1, C2 and professional civil servant group that are convened once this decree is published in the

They will already contemplate the necessary linguistic requirement in each category.

For the groups of senior officials A1 and A2, there will be a transitory period and the C1 level requirement for training in Valencian will be required from the calls for oppositions that arise from the public offer of employment for the year 2025. Until then, to aspire to places in this category, a B2 level of Valencian will be required.

In parallel, the Ministry of Education will deploy the decree that will regulate the recognition of Valencian linguistic competence for the homologation of studies in the Valencian educational system.

The regulations will determine that the students who finish ESO have a B1 level of Valencian, and that the students who finish the Baccalaureate will have a B2 level of Valencian accredited.

When the decree enters into force, students who have passed any of these educational stages will have the relevant accreditations in Valencian skills.

In addition, it will be retroactive for all students from previous courses who have completed these studies and accreditations may be requested through the Valencià Knowledge Qualifying Board.

There will continue to be a knowledge test for those opponents who have not studied in the Valencian Community.

In the case of Baccalaureate, students who pass the Valencian subject with at least a 7 mark in each course of this stage will have level C1 of Valencian at the end of this educational stage.

In this case, students who have completed Baccalaureate since the 2021-2022 academic year may have this level of accreditation.

According to data from the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function for 2020, in the Valencian Community there are 146,468 workers in the autonomous administration (49,942 in the province of Alicante, 18,604 in that of Castellón and 77,922 in the province of Valencia);

55,991 in the local administration (20,291 in the province of Alicante, 7,806 in the province of Castellón and 27,894 in the province of Valencia), and 34,133 in the state public sector (9,740 in the province of Alicante, 3,843 in the province of Castellón and 20,550 in the province of Valencia).