It approximately takes a third of their working time. According to Catalan legislation reports must be prepared for many sorts of human activities and uses within the park, from forest management practices carried out by individual owners to road maintenance performed by the responsible road management authority. A GIS for the management and planning of the park has been under development since 1995, under the name of Vulcanus Project. This system is aimed at providing the parks staff with a tool that can both enhance and make more efficient their management and planning tasks and should encompass the whole parks scope of action.
System design is based upon different modules which address different aspects of park management.
One of these modules is that of report handling and management. This module is different from other modules such as the forest and vegetation management or the fauna management in that it cuts across all modules. Reports are written for uses and activities dealing with any aspect of park management and are the responsibility of every member of the parks staff. When designing and implementing the report management module some constraining factors had to be taken into account. First, the way in which the module operates necessarily must comply with the predefined circuit of report handling and writing which already existed in the park and which was also included in the procedures approved by the certification team which gave the ISO 9002 certification to the park.