Technical FP Teachers in Catalonia: integration into Secondary 2026

Key data

Teachers who belonged to the Corps, to be phased out, of Technical Professors of Vocational Training in Catalonia complete their integration into the Secondary Education Teachers Corps with the publication of the Order EFD/326/2026, of March 30, in the BOE of April 10, 2026. This appointment formalizes the result of the integration procedure called by Resolution of August 29, 2023 and closes a process that fully equates these teachers with the rest of Secondary teaching staff in rights, category and remuneration.

The measure is not an isolated novelty: it responds to the legal mandate for progressive extinction of the Technical FP Teachers Corps at the state level, a process that affects all autonomous communities and that in Catalonia now reaches a new phase with this collective appointment.

What does this regulation establish?

Order EFD/326/2026 has a specific and limited purpose: formally appoint as career civil servants of the Secondary Education Teachers Corps those teachers who, belonging to the Corps to be phased out of Technical FP Teachers in Catalonia, passed the integration procedure called by Resolution of August 29, 2023.

The key elements established by the regulation are:

• Official appointment: Those affected acquire the status of career civil servants of the Secondary Education Teachers Corps with full rights.
• Progressive extinction of the original corps: The Technical FP Teachers Corps continues its extinction process. There will be no new incorporations into that corps.
• Improvement in category and remuneration: Integration entails an improvement in the professional category and remuneration level of those affected, who become equivalent to the rest of Secondary teaching staff.
• Autonomous community proposal: The appointment is made at the proposal of the Department of Education and Vocational Training of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia.

From a regulatory standpoint, this Order executes the mandate established in state legislation that provides for the integration of Technical FP Teachers into the Secondary Education Teachers Corps as a way to achieve the orderly extinction of the original corps.

Economic and operational impact

The impact of this measure occurs in two distinct areas:

For the affected teachers: Integration into the Secondary Education Teachers Corps entails a direct improvement in remuneration, by equating them with the group of teaching civil servants with the highest level within non-university education. This translates into an increase in basic and supplementary remuneration compared to what corresponded to the Technical FP Teachers Corps.

For the Department of Education and Vocational Training of Catalonia: Integration has relevant operational and budgetary implications:

• Modification of the structure of the FP teaching staff: those affected cease to appear in the corps to be phased out and are incorporated into the Secondary Education Teachers Corps.
• Increase in personnel costs associated with the improved remuneration of those integrated.
• Need to update human resources management systems, payroll and internal salary scales.
• Impact on the planning of future public employment calls for teachers in Catalonia, given that the original corps continues to shrink.

The regulation does not specify the exact number of teachers affected or the total economic amount of the remuneration impact, data that appear in the full text of the Order published in the BOE.

Who does it affect?

• Technical FP Teachers in Catalonia who participated in and passed the integration procedure called by Resolution of August 29, 2023.
• Department of Education and Vocational Training of the Generalitat of Catalonia, responsible for managing teaching staff and adapting staffing and remuneration.
• HR and personnel management managers of Vocational Training centers in Catalonia, who must update the administrative status of the affected teachers.
• Budget managers of the Education Department, who must anticipate the impact of the remuneration increase on their personnel items.
• Trade unions and representatives of teaching staff in Catalonia, who must be aware of the scope and effects of the appointment to inform and advise their constituents.

Practical example

A teacher who taught modules of vocational training cycles in an institute in Catalonia with the category of Technical FP Teacher, and who applied for the integration procedure called in August 2023, now receives —with the publication of Order EFD/326/2026— his formal appointment as a career civil servant of the Secondary Education Teachers Corps.

Following that appointment:

• His administrative status changes: he ceases to appear in the Corps to be phased out of Technical FP Teachers and appears in the Secondary Education Teachers Corps.
• His remuneration becomes equivalent to that of the rest of Secondary teaching staff, with the economic improvement that this entails.
• He accesses the same rights, conditions and career possibilities as the rest of the civil servants of the Secondary Education Teachers Corps in Catalonia.

From the perspective of the education administration, the Education Department must update the teacher's personal file, adjust his payroll and reflect the change in human resources management systems.

What should organizations do now?

1. Identify affected teachers: HR managers of the Education Department and FP centers must locate which teachers in their staff have been appointed under Order EFD/326/2026 and update their administrative status.
2. Update files and management systems: Reflect the change of corps in internal personnel management systems, payroll and salary scales, to avoid administrative or remuneration errors.
3. Review remuneration impact: Budget managers must calculate the increase in personnel costs resulting from the improved remuneration of those integrated and adjust the corresponding items.
4. Inform affected teachers: Communicate to those interested their new administrative status, rights and effects of the appointment, especially regarding remuneration, career development and working conditions.
5. Consult the full text of the Order: To learn the complete nominal list of appointed civil servants and the specific effects of the appointment, access the text published in the BOE of April 10