The Government has launched a tool called ELISA, which provides citizens and analysts with up-to-date information on the implementation of the Recovery Plan investments.
This tool, accessible through the Recovery Plan’s website, allows monitoring the execution of European funds through the analysis of public data from the National Grants Database (BDNS) and the Public Sector Contracting Platform (PLACSP), which are exploited through automated website data collection techniques (web scraping) and machine learning.
In this sense, the ELISA tool allows to track calls for tenders and grants 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 the Sectoral Conferences and those executed by local corporations.
Ceuta
In Ceuta, a total of 850 companies, entities and citizens of Ceuta already have 25 million euros of European funds from the Recovery Plan.
59% of the beneficiaries in Ceuta are foundations and others. And the largest volume of investments has been allocated to urban and rural agenda projects, with 24%, followed by those of administration of the S.XXI, with 20%, and education and training, with 17%.
More than 34.3 billion euros have already reached the real economy
The information obtained through this database confirms that the funds of the Recovery Plan are reaching cruising speed to the real economy. Specifically, 627,237 citizens, institutions and companies have already received 34,395 million euros until the end of February, through the different tenders and grants made by the General Administration of the State, the Autonomous Communities and the Local Entities. Of the funds allocated, 24,853 million correspond to investments made by the General Administration of the State, 7,990 million by the Autonomous Communities and 1,380 by the Local Corporations.
This high pace of implementation is observed in the calls made, which together amount to 61,558 million euros, of the 69,528 million allocated to Spain in the first phase.
ELISA provides information on the pace of resolution of the calls published by the different administrations. With the analysis of these data, it can be seen the fastest in the resolution of the calls by the General Administration of the State, with 55.9% of the funds resolved over the calls, compared to 51.5% of the Autonomous Communities, and 39.9% of the resolution of the Local Corporations.
The tool also allows to see the volume of funds awarded to each Autonomous Community, both through the General Administration of the State and the funds managed by the different autonomous and local bodies of each region. The Community of Madrid has received the most funds, with a total of 5,701.37 million euros, followed by Catalonia, with 4,949.86 million euros and the Valencian Community, with 3,753.61 million euros.
The analysis of the data also shows the high capillary nature of the Recovery Plan in the business demography, since 38% of the resolved funds have been allocated to SMEs, microenterprises and households. An effect that is especially relevant in regions such as Castilla-La Mancha, where the percentage of small and micro-enterprises receiving funds amounts to 56%, followed by Asturias, with 55% and Castilla y León, where they are 50% of the beneficiary companies.
Finally, the figures indicate the significant amount of European funds aimed at transforming the Spanish economy through investments in projects for sustainable development and the modernization of the business fabric. Of all the funds resolved, 20% went to projects aimed at developing sustainable infrastructure, another 20% to the modernization of the Spanish business fabric and 20% to urban and rural agendas.