The declaration of Balears as a catastrophic area entitles three municipalities of Mallorca to ask the Government for financial aid to alleviate damages

Campos, Porreres and Manacor can request access to the ordinary subsidies provided by law, starting from their inclusion

The municipalities of Campos, Porreres and Manacor, in Mallorca, will be able to access the ordinary economic aid lines provided by Royal Decree 307/2005, of 18 March, which regulates subsidies to meet the needs arising from emergency situations.

The inclusion of Balears in the declaration of areas affected by a Civil Protection emergency, according to the agreement of the Council of Ministers last Tuesday, entitles these three municipalities to initiate the corresponding procedures of application to the Ministry of the Interior of the aid usually provided by the State to alleviate damages in public and private goods that accredit the municipalities declared as a catastrophic zone, among them, for personal damage, in basic necessities, in the structure of habitual housing or in industrial, commercial and service establishments.

In addition, the law of the National Civil Protection System allows other ministries to adopt different measures to alleviate the consequences of these adverse events, such as exemption from the Real Property Tax quota and reduction in the Economic Activities Tax quota; labor measures and bonuses and exemptions from Social Security quotas; aid to local corporations, as well as works carried out on an emergency basis to repair damage caused to public infrastructure.

The subsidies provided for in this regulation are granted on the basis of the principle of interterritorial solidarity and on a subsidiary basis, to complement the actions that, in the exercise of their powers, are entrusted to the autonomous communities.

Extraordinary aid for Valencia, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia

The Official State Gazette (BOE) published on Thursday the order approved on Tuesday by the Government declaring the territories affected by the DANA that toured large areas of the Peninsula and the Balearic Islands between October 28 and November 4 a catastrophic zone. The text of the general provision indicates that the most affected regions were the Valencian Community, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia, and indicates that, to a lesser extent, the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Aragon were affected.

In addition, on this occasion, specifically, given the extreme seriousness of the consequences of DANA in the Valencian Community, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia, the Government of Spain has activated for these three communities a first extraordinary package of direct aid worth € 10,600 million, as part of a plan of immediate response, reconstruction and relaunch of these territories where the impact of the storm has been much more severe and has claimed fatalities and considerable damage to infrastructures, homes and private belongings.