The competences of the Senate are as follows:

1. To defend the personality and principles of the University of Valencia established in the preliminary title of these Statutes.
2. To elaborate the Statutes and the modification of these, as well as redraft, if necessary, the texts initially approved.
3. To approve and modify the regulations of the University of Valencia in the matters established by the Statutes.
4. To approve and modify the elections to Senate and principal, after the report of the Statutes Committee.
5. To establish the general criteria that the Governing Council must keep in mind for issuing reports on the creation, modification and closing of faculties, technical colleges or polytechnic schools, university schools, polytechnic universities and university research institutes of the University of Valencia, and on the affiliation of centres to it.
6. To debate and, if necessary, to approve, the general objectives of the university policies that the principal must introduce the second semester of each calendar year.
7. To debate and, if necessary, to approve the general lines of the proposal of the budget that the principal must introduce in the second semester of each calendar year, in a coordination with the objectives mentioned in the previous paragraph f).
8. To debate the management report that, regarding the general objectives approved for an academic year and a budgetary year and attending to, if necessary, the approved budget, the principal must introduce in the second semester of each calendar year.
9. To approve, if necessary, the management carried out by the principal, once debated the report mentioned in the paragraph h), as well as the management of the remaining government bodies of the University.
10. To call, in exceptional cases, elections to the Office of the Principal, in accordance with what is established in the article 104 of these Statutes and with the effects that are established.
11. To demand responsibilities to the people in charge or representatives that he/she chooses and, if necessary, to revoke them.
12. To discuss and reach agreements on any proposal that is presented and, if necessary, to transfer them to the corresponding bodies.
13. All those competences provided by these Statutes and other applicable dispositions.