The Council of Ministers has declared areas seriously affected by a civil protection emergency the territories that have suffered up to 53 adverse phenomena of different nature between September 16, 2024 and March 24, 2025 in the autonomous communities of Madrid, Castilla y León, Extremadura, Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Murcia, Catalonia, La Rioja, Aragon, Illes Balears and Galicia.
Since mid-September 2024, the National Centre for Monitoring and Coordination of Emergencies (CENEM) of the General Directorate of Civil Protection and Emergencies of the Ministry of the Interior has been informed of significant floods resulting from bursts and intense and continuous rainfall episodes that have affected much of the national territory, as well as other phenomena of different nature that constitute civil protection emergencies.
With regard to La Rioja, two civil protection emergencies have been included related to the floods produced on September 21, 2024 in the autonomous community and the collapse of the tower of the church of Viguera.
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The 53 civil protection emergencies included in the Agreement of the Council of Ministers approved on Tuesday have caused personal damage, in infrastructure and in public and private property, which justify the intervention of the General Administration of the State based on the principle of interterritorial solidarity and in a subsidiary way to the actions that, in the exercise of their powers, are entrusted to the territorial administrations.
The agreement includes the Ministry of the Interior’s assistance aimed at mitigating personal injury, property and property, local corporation expenses and damage in industrial, commercial and service establishments, and establishes the procedure for its concession. It also provides for the possibility of approval of an exemption from the fees of the Autonomous Agency Central Traffic Headquarters (duplicates of circulation or driving licences, as well as casualties of damaged vehicles) and by issuance of the ID card.
In addition, other ministries are authorized to study the possibility of adding other aids: tax benefits from the Ministry of Finance; labor and social security measures that would correspond to the Ministries of Labor and Social Economy, and of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, as well as aid to local corporations that will correspond to the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory.