The Ministry of Territorial Policy has allocated 47 million euros to finance the digital transformation and modernization of the municipal registry management systems of local entities, from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Fund (PRTR).
Among the grants is 1 million euros to finance the project “Digital transformation and modernization of municipal management systems” of the Autonomous Community of La Rioja.
In total, 47 million euros, in this first resolution approved and published yesterday in the BOE, of the 64 million called, to finance projects that implement new systems of padronal management that allow the exchange and updating, in real time, of data between municipalities and the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
They are grants promoted by the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory to take advantage of the momentum of the PRTR funds and use them as a tool to facilitate the adaptation of the municipal registry management systems to the new requirements of the Law Regulating the Bases of the Local Regime introduced with the approval of the royal decrees that modify the Regulation of Population and Territorial Demarcation of Local Entities.
The call has as beneficiaries the provincial councils, island councils and consells, as well as the autonomous uniprovincial communities and, as final recipients, the municipalities. The cities of Ceuta and Melilla also receive subsidies.
Previous calls
This call is the fourth one promoted by the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory that, within the framework of the PRTR, manages a total of 391.4 million euros in three years for the digitalization and modernization of local entities.
It should be remembered that in 2021 a call was published, with 92.7 million euros, aimed at municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants for their modernization and digitization projects. In 2022, 154.5 million were allocated to digitization projects in municipalities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants. And finally, in 2023 a call, amounting to 8 million euros, was allocated to the digital transformation of the administrations of the Canarian island councils and island consells of the Balearic Islands.
Submitted requests
As in previous calls, the allocation of aid has been based on a population criterion for a total of 60 local entities that were called to present their projects.
During the application period, which began last November and ended on March 30, 2024, 58 local entities requested funding for projects to digitize the register in the amount of 71,641,074.97 euros.
In this first resolution, published in the BOE, grants amounting to 47 million euros are granted to finance 45 projects of 47 beneficiary local entities.
A subsequent resolution will grant aid to the other projects requested until the maximum amount of 64 million euros is exhausted.
- RESOLUTION IN THE BOE (Published resolution showing the grants received by the various municipalities that have submitted projects)