- The Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Service, Miquel Iceta, has presided in the Senate the plenary of the National Commission of Local Administration
- The grants included in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan count for this year 2021 with 92 million euros destined for municipalities and, in total, until 2023, they amount to 391.4 million euros
The Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Function, Miquel Iceta, presided in the Senate on Monday the plenary of the National Commission of Local Administration (CNAL), in which the General Administration of the State and Local Entities have agreed the criteria for the distribution of European funds of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
These are the grants aimed at the digital transformation and modernization of the administrations of the Local Entities, which have for this year 2021 with 92 million euros.
These measures are part of component 11: Digital transformation and modernization of the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function and the Administrations of the Autonomous Communities and Local Entities. In total, it has 1 billion euros, which will be managed by the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Public Function in the period 2021-2023. Of these, 578.6 million will go to the autonomous communities and 391.4 million to the local entities.
With the 92 million euros appropriated in the PGE of 2021, it is planned to make a call aimed at municipalities with more than 50,000 inhabitants and provincial capitals.
The grants will be granted through a non-competitive concurrence procedure and the allocation between the different beneficiaries will be made as follows: 45% of the total amount called, 41.4 million euros, will be distributed among municipalities with a population of more than 250,000 inhabitants. The remaining 55%, 50.6 million euros, will be distributed among municipalities with a population between 50.001 and 250,000 inhabitants.
Local impulse
The amount that will correspond to each municipality will be determined based on its number of inhabitants, taking into account the population figures resulting from the review of the municipal register referred to on January 1, 2020.
The minister stressed that these investments are aimed at the reactivation of the Local Government and has reviewed the actions carried out by the Ministry in this regard. Thus, work is being done to encourage the participation of local entities, through the FEMP, in the Sectoral Conferences as also foreseen in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. In fact, the participation of the FEMP in the last sectoral conferences has already been included.
Iceta also recalled that the Government continues to provide the corresponding budget items with the necessary appropriations to deal with the processes of allocation of resources that can mitigate the damage to municipal infrastructures and the provincial and island road network caused by natural disasters.
“We are working to promote effective local autonomy, to respond to the peculiarities of local governments throughout the territory, to improve the integration of local entities in our institutional architecture and to undertake absolutely unpostponable reforms in public employment also in the Local Administration,” he summarized.
CNAL has also addressed the report of the High Commissioner for Spain Entrepreneurial Nation on the “Spain Entrepreneurial Nation Strategy”, the report of the Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Service on the general lines of action of the Department, as well as the report of the living debt of Local Entities as of December 31, 2020.