The Government of Spain, through the Delegation of the Government in the Canary Islands, has opened the deadline for the application of the aid or subsidies of the Civil Protection System of the Ministry of the Interior for the natural or legal persons affected by the recent floods in the municipal terms of Teguise and Arrecife, on the island of Lanzarote.
This aid, the granting of which is regulated by the General Law on Subsidies and its implementing regulations, by Royal Decree 307/2005, of 18 March, and by Royal Decree 477/2007, of 13 April, may be requested by submitting the appropriate documentation until 14 May at the Insular Directorate of the General Administration of the State in Lanzarote or at any of the official records listed in Article 16.4 of the Law 39/2015, of 1 October, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations.
The granting of such aid shall be subsidiary to any other public or private national or international system of damage coverage from which the persons affected may be beneficiaries.
However, where the said systems do not cover all the damage caused, the subsidies shall be granted on a complementary basis and shall be compatible in conjunction with other subsidies, compensation, aid, income or resources from public or private systems, national or international, up to the limit of the value of the damage caused.
Among others, the following may be beneficiaries of this aid, under the terms and requirements established in Royal Decree 307/2005, of 18 March:
- Family or economic cohabitation units that suffer personal or material damage, taking into account, for this purpose, the amount of aid in proportion to the economic resources available to them to deal with an emergency or disaster situation.
- Local Corporations that demonstrate scarcity of resources to meet the expenses derived from actions in situations of serious risk or catastrophic nature.
- Natural or legal persons who, requested by the competent authority, have carried out a personal or property benefit, due to an emergency situation.
- Natural or legal persons holding commercial, industrial or service establishments, with fewer than fifty employees, whose business premises or assets related to that activity would have been directly damaged by the events arising from the emergency or catastrophic situation.
More information is available on the website of the General Directorate of Civil Protection and Emergencies of the Ministry of the Interior: