The Government of Spain has launched the ELISA tool that provides updated information on the execution of the investments of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
This tool, accessible through the recovery plan websiteit makes it possible to monitor the implementation of European funds by analysing public data from the National Grants Database (BDNS) and the Public Sector Procurement Platform (PLACSP), which are exploited through automated web scraping and machine learning techniques.
In this sense, the ELISA tool allows to monitor the calls for tenders and subsidies with Next Generation EU funds, as well as their resolution, both those managed directly by the General Administration of the State, and those transferred to the autonomous communities through sectoral conferences and those executed by local corporations.
The government delegate in Asturias, Delia Losa, considers that the new tool “is an example of transparency” that serves to “shatter the well-worn argument of those who say that the Recovery Plan is not reaching the real economy”.
Data in Asturias
In Asturias, a total of 14,514 companies, entities and citizens already have 696 million euros of European funds from the Recovery Plan. 55 percent of the beneficiaries are self-employed and SMEs.
Of these funds, 537 million euros come from calls made by the General Administration of the State, 113 million from those decided by the Government of the Principality with the resources allocated at sectoral conferences and 47 million from local corporations.
Of the 640 million euros allocated by the Government to the Autonomous Executive for its direct management, a total of 284 million have been convened and 113 million awarded, with a resolution rate of 40 percent. For their part, the local corporations have summoned 79 million euros and resolved 47 million.
The largest volume of funds in Asturias has been allocated to sustainable infrastructure projects, with 29 percent of the total, followed by urban and rural agendas, with 16 percent, and modernization of the industrial fabric, with 15 percent.
In the new tool there is a tab for each autonomous community in which the most important projects that have already been awarded in each territory are detailed.
Recovery Plan funds are reaching the real economy
At the national level, around 34.4 billion euros have been allocated to companies and households and have therefore already reached the real economy.
Specifically, a total of 627,237 citizens, institutions and companies have received funds from the Recovery Plan until the end of February, of which 38 percent are self-employed and SMEs.
We are in the middle of the implementation period of the Recovery Plan and around half of the approximately 70 billion euros allocated to Spain in the first phase of the Plan have already been awarded.