The Autonomous Regional Government’s competence in matters pertaining to Historical Heritage involves:

• Coordinating and promoting cooperation between the Administrations involved in the protection and management of Historical Heritage.
• Serving as a higher authority that oversees the competences in matters pertaining to Historical Heritage that have been transferred or delegated to the provincial councils and town councils.
• Declaring Assets of Cultural Interest (Bienes de Interés Cultural, or BICs) and keeping a registry of them.
• Initiating the procedures to award BIC status to assets attached to their heritage or allocated to heritage authorities and public services managed by the Autonomous Community.
• Drawing up and updating the Regional Inventory of Movable Assets.
• Coordinating the drawing up of inventories, charts, lists, and other instruments for documenting the Canary Islands’ Historical Heritage.
• Authorising archaeological interventions.
• Programming research policies for the protection and tutelage of Historical Heritage.
• Disseminating and promoting the knowledge and evaluation of the Canary Islands’ Historical Heritage by integrating it into the curricula at every level of education.
• Planning museum policies in coordination with the provincial councils.
• Planning policies for the conservation and protection of Historical Heritage.
• Inspecting Archaeological Heritage sites and issue sanctions, as the case may be.
• Assuming the entitlement to first refusal and pre-emptive rights with regards to BICs and inventoried movable goods, in the event that the Provincial Council does not do so.