The Government’s “The Administration Near You” program will add the services of the General Directorate of Traffic to the procedures that bring the population of small municipalities closer together. Until now, this citizen training program offered advice on the electronic procedures of the General State Administration, Social Security and the Public Employment Service (SEPE). The procedures managed by the DGT related to, for example, driving licences or vehicle ownership, including operations of duplication of driving licences, casualties, changes of address and transfers between private individuals including agricultural vehicles, are now also incorporated.
The Government Delegation in Galicia and the four provincial subdelegations are already working in the second phase of the program “The Administration near you”. This new phase contemplates the realization of face-to-face activities, in which personnel of the different services explain how to relate digitally with the General Administration of the State, Social Security, the SEPE and, now, Traffic.
In these sessions, citizens can also obtain the digital certificate essential for electronic identification before the Administration and learn to use it for their most usual procedures.
Previous adhesion
During these weeks, the subdelegations of the Government are transferring to the municipalities with a population of less than 8,000 inhabitants of Galicia the implementation of the second phase of this program. The participation of the municipalities in it requires their prior accession to the framework agreement signed between the Ministry of Territorial Policy and the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces.
The program “A Administración cerca de ti”, of the Ministry of Territorial Policy, is part of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, and aims to bring the General Administration of the State (AGE) closer to the territory and facilitate citizens living in rural areas access to public services without having to travel to other localities.
In the first phase, completed in March, the program reached 239 municipalities in Galicia with training sessions attended by 4,200 people. In these sessions, 4,057 digital certificates were processed to the persons summoned. The staff in charge of these sessions traveled more than 24,600 kilometers to approach the selected city councilss.