The Senior Staff Commission is one of the senior civil service bodies of the General Administration of the State. In accordance with the provisions of Article 9 of Law 30/1984 of 2 August on Measures for the Reform of the Civil Service, it is set up as the collegiate coordinating, documentation and advisory body for the development of personnel policy in the service of the State Administration.

Its origin goes back to Law 109/1963 of 20 July on the Bases for Civil Servants of the State; and in the more than 50 years of the life of this body, from its initial membership in the Ministry of the Presidency, to its current membership in the State Secretariat of the Civil Service, it has exercised important coordination and communication functions between the ministerial departments in matters of personnel, as well as advisory criteria, report,