The CSCAE is a non-profit organisation established in 1931.Its essential purposes are representing and defending the profession and its Orders and Autonomic Councils as a single unit and also coordinating the action of its members in the completion of its essential purposes and shared purposes as well as in its relations with service entities created, promoted or held by the Orders, the Autonomic Councils, or the Council itself. Also, guaranteeing, in the practice of its own functions, and ensuring, at all times, the equality of treatment for all architects and their free practice of their profession in all Spain within the frame established pursuant to current legal provisions. And lastly, establishing the Code of Conduct for Architects within the frame of current regulation and protecting the interests of consumers and users of architecture services.