Satisfaction and optimism in the middle of the distribution of European funds Next Generation. The Generalitat of Catalunya has transferred, tendered or, at the very least, opened a call to channel 60% of the money assigned to it by the State through the sectoral conferences and 70% of what you have already received from this package. In practice, actually, only half of this volume is compromisedbut even there the Generalitat finds good news to hold on to: this percentage is 42% higher than the average for the rest of the communities.
In total there are 3,420 million euros allocated, 2,845 million euros already in the hands of the Generalitat, 1,984 million euros mobilized and 953 million euros committed. In other words, only half of what was mobilized has been awarded and less than a third (27.9%) of the total.
“We lack information and basic planning: there is an important part of the resources that is not assigned and we do not know when we will have it,” explains the Director General of European Funds and State Aid of the Ministry of Economy and Hisenda, Alex Cubells, to justify the difficulty of assessing that only 28% of the resources that the Government can count on at the moment are committed. “We don’t know if it’s good or bad and that’s why we do this exercise of comparing ourselves with others & rdquor ;, he added. According to the data they handle, the regional x-ray speaks of an average adjudication of 19.6%.
In addition, as a reference, the Government has the data from an ESADE study that place the community as a leader in terms of money mobilized through its public administration: 29% compared to 16% of the Valencian country and of Madridsecond and third in the ranking, or 7.8% of Andalusiafifth in this list and territory that has designated the most money.
“The Generalitat is doing a very good job of mobilizing the Next Generation both in relation to resource mobilization like in the agility in managementand it is not an easy job, because we find ourselves inefficiencies base & rdquor ;, has valued the Minister of Economy and Hisenda, Natalia Morewho has presented the balance together with Cubells and the secretary for economic affairs and European funds of the same department, Miquel Puig. “Despite all the limitations we have, which are many, from Catalonia we are managing the funds very well, we are doing it better than the rest of the State territories, and if we had more power of decision either Room for maneuver we would do it much better& rdquor ;, this person in charge insisted, who also highlighted the good pace that has been taken in recent months: half of the 1,900 euros mobilized has been managed between January and May of this year.
slow down notice
Among the limitations, they have listed that the management system is excessively centralizedhe large volume of callsthat the application windows are short or that the aid programs overlap with each other. To all this has now been added the entry into force of the ministerial order 55 that it has paralyzed many of the bidding procedures and that it could slow down -they have warned- the rate of awarding Next Generation funds in Catalonia.
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“We currently have files worth 800 million euros that are blocked for the verification of conflicts of interestand it is for a matter of administrative management of the computer system that he is paralyzed & rdquor ;, Cubells has detailed.
In this sense, the three responsible have taken the opportunity to demand that the State correct the errors detected in this first phase of the distribution of funds (As planned, the first phase would have to end on December 31 of this year and a second phase would begin that would last until 2026), because there are “calendar risks and that part of the transformative impact of these funds is lost& rdquor; , have concluded.