The collegiate visa is a document issued by a professional Association. It is the corresponding College that defines it and establishes the specific visa criteria.

The collegiate visa is an act of control subject to administrative law and carried out by the Colleges in the exercise of a public function attributed by law, through which the adequacy of any type of project or professional work of a collegiate to the general or corporate regulations that regulate it is verified, as well as compliance with the subjective requirements of its author to subscribe it and assume the resulting optional responsibility before the State and society, all of this in guarantee of the interests of the clients and the public interest. in general.

Royal Decree 1000/2010, of August 5, art. 12 establishes that it is only mandatory in execution projects and final certificates of building works, demolition of buildings and other special cases.

As indicated in article 6 of Royal Decree 1332/2000, of July 7, of the General Statutes of the Official Colleges of Industrial Engineers of Spain.