ANECA´s scope of action comprises the issue of a positive or negative report in the following cases:
Evaluation prior to recruitment by Public Universities of:
- Post Dissertation Doctoral Teaching Assistant
- Non-civil servant non-PhD Lecturer
- Non-civil servant tenured Lecturer
- Private universities must have at least 25% of their academic staff positively evaluated by ANECA by 2006.
ANECA shall issue a positive or negative report, under the request of the Universities Coordination Council, in the following cases:
- To exempt University Professors from fulfilling the established requirements when undertaking a habilitation process.
- To report about the interest of allowing university professors from other European Union countries to take part in the habilitation committees.
- To report about the interest of allowing professors on extended leave on abscence teaching at private universities to take part in the habilitation committees.
- To let professors from other European Union countries attain a habilitation process.
- To report about modifying the name of the contractual position obtained into another one that corresponds to the same field of knowledge.
Another scope of action refers to salary bonuses awarded by the competent regional authority or any other incentive to encourage better teaching and research, awarded by the central government.