The Central Personnel Registry originates from article 12 of Decree 315/1964 of 7 February 1964, which approves the Articulated Law of Civil Servants of the State. This provision provided for the existence of a Register of Personnel at the service of the State Civil Administration, and that the registration of appointments, ceases or contracts would be a prerequisite for the accreditation of the corresponding holdings.

That same year, Decree 864/1964, of April 9, established a first regulation of the relations of officials and service sheets, included a first codification of administrative situations and created the Personnel Registration Number.

Originally, it only contained information from officials of the Bodies attached to the Ministry of Public Administration (popularly known as the “General Corps”); gradually, the staff of the Bodies attached to other Ministries (“Special Bodies”) and the Autonomous Bodies Scales were incorporated.

Subsequently, Law 30/1984 of 2 August on Measures for the Reform of the Civil Service indicated in article 13 that all Administrations should have coordinated personnel registers, and in particular a Central Register in which all staff would be registered in the service of the State Administration. Article 18 of Law 53/1984, of 26 December, on Incompatibilities of Personnel in the Service of Public Administrations also mentioned the obligation to note in the corresponding registers the resolutions of compatibility to perform a second post or activity in the public sector or the exercise of private activities.

At the beginning, personnel management was mainly done on paper, which is why the offices delegated to the Central Personnel Registry were created during the 1980s in those ministries and agencies where their presence was deemed appropriate. These were composed of staff acting under the mandate of the SPC, irrespective of their organic secondment to the unit managing the SPC, and were responsible for recording and recording in the SPC the acts and resolutions adopted by the staff body. Proximity facilitated the management and counseling of these units.

The publication began in 1990. Statistical Bulletin staff at the service of public administrations. This is a statistic developed by the Central Personnel Registry based on the enumeration of administrative data collected from different sources, with the aim of presenting information on the personnel at the service of the State Civil Service, and Administrations of the Autonomous Communities and the local administration. This Newsletter is included in the National Statistical Plan.

The fourth Final Provision of Law 13/1996 of 30 December on Fiscal, Administrative and Social Order added a new dimension that goes beyond merely recording activity, indicating that the Central Personnel Register should have the necessary information on human resources in the public sector.

The provisions of the Law on Measures for the Reform of the Civil Service were developed in Royal Decree 1405/1986, of 6 June, approving the Regulations of the Central Register of Personnel and the coordination rules with those of the other Public Administrations, which was modified by Royal Decree 2073/1999, of 30 December.

Currently, Royal Legislative Decree 5/2015, of 30 October, approving the recast text of the Law on the Basic Status of the Public Employee, provides in its article 71 the obligation of each Public Administration to create a Personnel Register, in which the data concerning the personnel included in its scope will be registered, noting that they will be able to have aggregated information on the other human resources of their respective sector.

In parallel with these regulatory developments, the Central Personnel Register has always been linked to technological progress. Its first mechanization dates from 1968 and its first computerization in 1972. The current information system was launched in 2003, accompanying the amendment of the Regulation, and has been continuously improved and expanded since then. As a complement, this system has a number of applications and computer services, each with specific functionalities:

- CPR: it is the core of the Central Personnel Registry Information System; it consists of a database of personnel records and a database composed of organizational structures and job relationships.

- CECIR portal: this is a means of sharing information on the submission of Job Relations Change Dossiers between staff managers and members of the Interministerial Remuneration Commission and its Executive Committee.

- Badaral: this was the first HR IT application directly connected to the SPC; it allows the creation of the registration documents, send them to the signature of the competent authority and delegated office, annotate them to SPC and store them in RCPDOC. It is in the process of extinction, so it will not adapt to the IV Convention for the Labour Force of the General Administration of the State.

- SIGP: The Integrated Personnel Management System (IACS) consists of a set of human resources management procedures that allow the successive participation of the different competent bodies, ensuring a reduction in the time spent in the processes, the availability of information and avoiding duplication of data and tasks. It also allows the connection with NEDAES for the management of public employees' payroll.

- eSIR: The SPC Statistical Information System brings together information from the SPC and other external sources, allowing statistical exploitation for the development of the Staff Bulletin for the AAPP and other staff statistics.

- Edit CPR: This web service allows HR applications to generate registration documents according to standard formats approved by the State Secretariat for Territorial Policy and Civil Service. It has as its main advantage that it allows HR applications to be isolated from changes in these formats resulting from changes to existing legislation.

- Annotate SPC: this is a web service that allows HR units of the State Administration and Public Universities to send electronic documents to the Central Personnel Registry for registration.

- RCPDOC: is the document manager of the SPC Information System; it stores more than 20 million documents.

- Consult@RCP: This web service allows client applications to consult the registration documents available in the RCPDOC document manager for the CPR.