a) promoting the drafting of staff management instruments and indicators;
b) overseeing the administrative procedures relating to staff recruitment and movements and
the acts inherent in the legal regime governing them;
c) studying and proposing measures to train and motivate staff;
d) proposing and supporting the implementation of measures relating to the organization and
simplification of work routines and methods;
e) promoting stafftraining actions;
f) organizing and keeping the staff register and recording and monitoring attendance;
g) overseeing the receipt, recording, classification, distribution and dispatch of correspondence;
h) promoting the systematic improvement of budget management, introducing cost control
techniques and helping to draw up the budgets of the IPI;
i) preparing draft budgets and ensuring that they are implemented;
j) checking, classifying and processing documents relating to receipts and expenditure and
entering them in the accounts;
k) developing financial management instruments and indicators in accordance with the
principles of public service accounting;
l) overseeing the movement of financial flows, drawing up the respective monthly balance
sheets;
m) overseeing the management of the assets of the IPI and keeping the inventory of its
movable and immovable assets in good order.
Subsection III
Central Services Directorate of Information
ARTICLE 16
Competences
The IPI’s Central Services Directorate of Information shall be responsible for disseminating and
promoting the potential of industrial property among economic agents, organizing, processing and
maintaining the technical information on the sector and promoting the computerization of the
activities of the IPI. In carrying out these activities, it shall be empowered to do the following:
a) organize and maintain a specialized library on industrial property and ensure public access
to the IPI’s information and documentary resources;
b) process and promote the selective dissemination of the technological information contained
in patents and in other industrial property documents;
c) promote the creation of sources of technological information aimed at enterprises and carry
out actions to raise awareness of the industrial property system, in such a way as to stimulate
creativity and innovation in production and marketing processes;