El órgano concedente usa el criterio de valoración.

In administrative or legal Spanish, órgano often does not mean a body part. It can mean a body, authority, or department within an institution.

Concedente comes from conceder and means something like granting.

So órgano concedente is a formal phrase meaning the granting body/authority.

Because the stress falls on the first syllable: ÓR-ga-no.

Without the accent, normal Spanish stress rules would make it sound like or-GA-no. The accent mark shows that the word has unusual stress and must be pronounced ÓR-ga-no.

Here, concedente is an adjective modifying órgano.

It is one of those adjectives ending in -ente, which often have the same form for masculine and feminine:

• el órgano concedente
• la entidad concedente

In legal language, words like this can sometimes also behave like nouns, but in this sentence it is best understood as an adjective.

Because in Spanish, many adjectives—especially classifying or technical ones—normally come after the noun.

Here, concedente is not adding a personal opinion or poetic description. It is identifying what kind of órgano it is: the one that grants.

So órgano concedente is the natural order. Putting concedente before the noun would sound very unusual here.

Spanish often uses the definite article more than English does.

Here:

• El órgano concedente = the granting body
• el criterio de valoración = the assessment/evaluation criterion

Even if English might sometimes drop an article in a more general statement, Spanish usually keeps it when talking about a specific role, institution, or identified concept.

Criterio means criterion, standard, or rule used for judging.

Valoración can mean assessment, evaluation, or sometimes scoring/appraisal, depending on context.

So criterio de valoración means something like:

• assessment criterion
• evaluation criterion
• criterion used for evaluation

In official texts, it usually refers to the standard used to judge or score something.

Because Spanish normally does not build noun compounds the way English does.

English often says things like:

• evaluation criterion
• grant application
• tax system

Spanish usually links the nouns with de:

• criterio de valoración
• solicitud de subvención
• sistema de impuestos

So de is the normal way to connect the two ideas here.

Usa is the third person singular present indicative of usar.

So it literally means uses.

In an official or legal sentence like this, the present tense often expresses a general rule, procedure, or established fact, not just something happening right now.

Because el criterio de valoración is a thing, not a person.

Spanish uses the personal a mainly with specific human direct objects, and sometimes with animals or personified beings. Since criterio is an inanimate thing, no a is used:

• usa el criterio ✅
• usa a el criterio ❌

Yes. It sounds formal, administrative, and somewhat bureaucratic.

Words like órgano concedente and criterio de valoración are typical of official documents, regulations, grant procedures, and public administration.

A simpler, less official version would depend on context, but this sentence is perfectly normal in formal written Spanish.

Yes. Utiliza would also be possible.

• usa = uses
• utiliza = uses / makes use of

In many contexts they are interchangeable, but utiliza can sound slightly more formal or technical. Since this sentence is already formal, either could fit, depending on style.

Because the sentence is talking about the criterion as a single standard or rule.

Spanish, like English, can use the singular when referring to one specific criterion or to the idea of a criterion in a general institutional sense.

If the text meant several standards, it would be:

• usa los criterios de valoración

So the singular suggests either one criterion or one criterion understood as the relevant standard in that context.