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VISIT TO LA PALMA BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF UGT

26/08/2025
VISITA A LA PALMA DEL SECRETARIO GENERAL DE UGT

INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT – AGREEMENT UPDATE

Granting of an extraordinary loan to the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory to grant and pay to the Island Council of La Palma, Council of Ministers of August 26, 2025, in compliance with the provisions of Royal Decree-Law 20/2021, of October 5, as a consequence of the volcanic eruptions on the island of La Palma.

Application of the Contingency Fund and concession, for a total amount of 6,191,932.15 euros, (updating of the State-Cabildo Infrastructure Convention) in accordance with the provisions of the General Budget Law.

This fund responds to the increase in the material and human costs of the works contained in that agreement approved in 2022, which after the evaluation of infrastructures by the Commissioner for the Reconstruction of the island, Héctor Izquierdo Triana, has revealed the economic injection for Palma. The State assumes 50% of the funding, the other 50% between the Government of the Canary Islands and the Island Council.

Since 2022 work is being carried out with the agreements and their modifications for the pending infrastructures, all the necessary documentation for the processing and approval of these 6,191,932.15 euros, referred to above, was sent by the Council in this month of June 2025.