- The agreement of the Council of Ministers includes 53 emergencies, mostly adverse weather phenomena, which between 16 September 2024 and 24 March 2025 have caused significant personal and material damage in Madrid, Castilla y León, Extremadura, Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Murcia, Catalonia, La Rioja, Aragón, Illes Balears and Galicia
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.
Of these, due to their gravity and importance, the recent train of tassels concatenated in time that have caused a considerable volume of damage stands out:
- From March 2 to 5, there has been an intense episode of rain and snowfall, which affected Andalusia, Valencia, Castilla y León and Murcia, where a farmer was killed.
- From March 6, and until March 11, the Jana fluff hit the peninsular center with heavy rains that caused extraordinary increases in flow rates especially in the waterways of the Tagus, Douro and Ebro basins. The most serious episodes occurred in the Community of Madrid.
- Between 12 and 20 March, the Konrad and Laurence mudflats caused intense snowfall in mountain areas of the Cantabrian Mountain Range and Central System, as well as heavy rains in Murcia Andalucía, where the death of four people was recorded.
- A new storm called Martinho has caused intense and continuous rains between March 20 and 24 that have forced to continue unpacking in most of the reservoirs of the Tagus, Douro and Guadiana basins.
Supports
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.