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No. The application for the special agreement can be made until 31 December 2028.
Full information on this special agreement can be found in the section "Special agreement for internships" available on this website.

If I have been affected by the ruling of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court annulling Royal Decree 1707/2011 of 18 November regulating external academic internships for university students, can I apply to subscribe to the special agreement?

In the case of internships carried out under Royal Decree 1707/2011 of 18 November regulating external academic internships for university students, and which were affected by the Ruling of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court, a special agreement may be requested if the internships were carried out prior to the annulment of the Ruling, i.e. for internships carried out prior to 28 June 2013.

Any of the causes of termination mentioned in the previous question will determine that only the training periods corresponding to the monthly payments that have been made will be recognised as having been paid.

The special agreement will expire due to any of the following reasons:

1. For non-payment of the full amount or, in the event of payment in instalments, of the instalments corresponding to three consecutive monthly payments or five alternative monthly payments, except in the case of duly accredited force majeure.
2. If the subscriber becomes a pensioner for retirement or permanent disability under any of the Social Security schemes.
3. Death of the subscriber.
4. By decision of the subscriber, communicated electronically or in writing to the Social Security General Treasury. The request for cancellation of the special agreement can be made through the channels indicated in the section"Registration, de registration or change of data of the special agreement" in the section "Special agreement procedures and formalities". In this case, the termination of the special agreement shall take place as from the first day of the month following the date of such communication.

No. You can choose to make a single payment or pay in monthly instalments over a period of up to twice the number of monthly payments to be calculated, up to a maximum of 84 monthly payments.

Once the TGSS has calculated the total amount of the contribution to be paid for this special agreement, the amount of the contribution will be debited from the account to which you have paid by direct debit.

If there is more than one contribution base in the same year, the contribution base in force on 31 December shall be used.

For the calculation of your contribution, the contribution rate of 28.30% will be applied to the minimum contribution base of group 7 of the General Social Security Scheme in force during the period in which you carried out the internship. To the resulting amount, a coefficient of 0.77 will be applied and that will be the amount you will have to pay.

The special agreement shall take effect from the month following the month in which it is signed, when the full amount or the first of its payments shall be paid.

However, entitlement to benefits shall become effective when the full amount of the contribution due under this special agreement has been paid. In the event of payment in instalments, the termination of the agreement shall mean that only the training periods corresponding to the monthly instalments that have been paid shall be recognised as having been paid.

Applications submitted between 1 June 2024 and the day before the entry into force of the Order, i.e. 1 August 2024, which have not been resolved by that date, shall be resolved in accordance with the provisions of the Order.

Those who have already submitted their application and wish to extend it in light of the new regulations (extension of the subscription events, reduction of the agreement payment, etc.), may submit a new application for registration of the special agreement through the channels indicated in the section"Registration, deregistration or variation of data of the special agreement" in the section"Special agreement procedures and formalities", jointly providing the certificates accrediting the internship or training period that they wish to have recognised for the purposes of this special agreement.

The application to sign up to this special agreement can be submitted between 1 June 2024 and 31 December 2028, through the channels indicated in the section "Registration, de registration or change of data of the special agreement" in the section "Special agreement procedures and formalities".

31 December 2028 for all cases.

You can do this by means of a certificate issued by the university or educational centre where the respective studies were taken, stating whether or not the internship was paid or unpaid, and the duration of the internship:

1. If it was paid, the certificate must state the specific dates on which it was carried out (start and end dates).
2. If not paid, the start and end dates of the period or four-month period in which it was carried out must be indicated, provided that it was carried out on all the days of the period or four-month period indicated. Otherwise, the number of days on which the internship has been carried out in that period, or the number of computable hours of the internship corresponding to the assigned credits, considering for these purposes a full day for every eight hours of internship. In the latter case, parts of a day shall be counted as a full day.

In the case of paid internships, the certificate may be issued by the company or entity in which the internship was carried out or by the entities that financed it.

The certification of all internships for which the special agreement is to be concluded must be submitted together with the application for the special agreement.

This agreement may be signed by persons who meet the following conditions:

1. Completion of the training within the period required by the regulations:
   • Internship students:
     • Unpaid internships, carried out before 1 January 2024.
     • Paid internships, carried out before 1 November 2011.
     • University students who have carried out paid external academic internships affected by the annulment of Royal Decree 1707/2011 of 18 November, prior to 28 June 2013.
   • Scholarship holders participating in non-degree oriented training programmes, whether or not of a research nature, carried out before 1 November 2011.
   • Doctoral students participating in training programmes of a research nature, completed before 4 February 2006.
2. Provision, together with the application for the special agreement, of the certificate of completion of the internship or training. In the case of paid internships, the certificate may be issued by the company or entity in which the internship was carried out or by the entities that financed it. This certification must comply with the requirements set out in Article 3 of Order ISM/386/2024 of 29 April regulating this type of special agreement.
   The application for registration under this special agreement shall be understood as being made in respect of all the internship and/or training periods that are included in the certificates provided together with the application.
3. Submission of the application within the legally established deadline.

I completed 1,000 days of paid internship prior to 1 November 2011 and signed a special agreement to redeem the contribution for 730 days of internship under RD 1493/2011. Can I re-sign a new special agreement for paid internships completed prior to 1 November 2011 that were not recovered by signing that special agreement?

Yes, this new special agreement may be signed for up to a maximum of 1,825 days, provided that the periods for which this new special agreement is to be signed do not overlap with the periods for which the special agreement regulated by Royal Decree 1493/2011 of 24 October was recognised and signed.

• University, vocational training, artistic or sports training may be recognised for the purposes of this special agreement for a maximum of 1,825 days.
• Participation as trainees in non-degree programmes may be recognised for the purposes of this special agreement for a maximum of 1,825 days.
• Participation as doctoral students in research training programmes, both in Spain and abroad, may be recognised for the purposes of this special agreement for a maximum of 1,825 days.

The signing of this special agreement shall be compatible with the previous signing of the special agreement regulated in the first additional provision of Royal Decree 1493/2011 of 24 October, provided that the periods covered by both agreements do not overlap.

1. Regarding students on training placements and external academic placements:
   • Unpaid internships done before 1 January 2024.
   • Paid traineeships done before 1 November 2011.
   • External paid academic internships carried out by university students, affected by the annulment of Royal Decree 1707/2011 of 18 November, prior to 28 June 2013.
2. Non-degree oriented training programmes, whether or not of a research nature, done by trainees before 1 November 2011.
3. Training programmes of a research nature done by doctoral students before 4 February 2006.

Special agreements may not be entered into by Social Security retirement or permanent disability pensioners, except in cases relating to the receipt of such benefits in which Article 2.2 of Order TAS/2865/2003 of 13 October regulating the special agreement in the Social Security System, permits it.

1. Students on training internships and external academic internships:
• University students, both to obtain official bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, and to obtain the universities' own qualifications, whether a lifelong learning master's degree, a specialisation diploma or an expert diploma.
• University students who have undertaken paid external academic internships affected by the annulment of Royal Decree 1707/2011 of 18 November by the Judgment of the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court of 21 May 2013.
• Vocational training, except when the internship was provided under the intensive vocational training scheme.
• Higher artistic education, professional artistic education and sports education in the education system.
2. Scholarship holders participating in non-degree oriented training programmes, whether or not of a research nature.
3. Doctoral students participating in research training programmes, both in Spain and abroad.

No, because it is an internship programme in this organisation aimed at students who already have a university degree and whose performance will lead to the conclusion of the corresponding internship contract.