The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has initiated the procedure for granting compensation to maritime and air transport of goods, with origin or destination in Melilla, as published in today’s Official State Gazette (BOE).
As stated in the text, the objective is compensation aimed at reducing the effective cost of transporting certain goods by sea and air between the City of Melilla and the peninsula, as well as between both autonomous cities, and between these and other territories of the Member States of the European Union and other signatory States of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, concluded in 2023.
This aid will be financed from the appropriation provided in the budget application 17.20.56.441P.478.04 of the Expenditure Budget of the State Secretariat for Transport and Sustainable Mobility provided for in the Law on General State Budgets (PGE) for the year 2023 extended for the year 2024 and set for them an amount of 125,000 euros.
The deadline for submitting applications will be one month, starting tomorrow, and the applications for obtaining the aid will conform to the model and content specified in the call and will be available to be completed and presented in the electronic headquarters of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory (https://sede.administracionespublicas.gob.es)
Beneficiaries
The beneficiaries will be natural or legal persons in the case of products originating or processed in Ceuta or Melilla, as appropriate, transported to the rest of Spain or exported to countries belonging to the European Economic Area, the sender or dispatcher of the goods; in the case of “inputs”, which are not manufactured in Ceuta or Melilla, sent from the rest of Spain or the European Economic Area to Ceuta or Melilla, the recipients or recipients of the goods will be beneficiaries; in the case of the return of stocks, dangerous goods and waste, the sender or dispatcher, as stated in Article 2023 of the Royal Decree.
And that they comply with the requirements of article 10, which states that the right to receive compensation may be recognized to persons or entities that demonstrate the concurrence of the circumstances provided for in this Royal Decree and that persons or entities in which any of the circumstances provided for in article 13 of Law 38/2003, of November 17, General of Subsidies, may not obtain the status of beneficiaries of the compensation regulated in this royal decree.
The goods must correspond to any of the following products, products originating or processed in Melilla, according to its article 3. Raw materials and intermediate products, also called “inputs”, necessary for the production of the products of the previous paragraph, provided that they are not in Melilla, according to its Article 4. Goods in stock from imports destined for consumption made by small and medium-sized commercial enterprises (SMEs) of Melilla, subject to the retail regime, according to its article 5. Dangerous goods from Melilla or the rest of the European Union, according to its Article 6.1. Waste generated in Melilla, according to its article 6.2.