The Government has drawn up a Royal Decree that considerably reduces administrative controls and allows granting subsidies to companies without contesting with the official objective of executing and quickly distributing the new European fund.

And it assigns power to a new inter-ministerial commission that

Pedro Sánchez will

preside over

with the majority of the PSOE ministers, without the presence of Vice President

Pablo Iglesias,

although

the Minister

of Labor,

Yolanda Díaz

.

The so-called

Royal Decree by which urgent measures are approved for the modernization of the Public Administration and for the execution of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan

, to which EL MUNDO has had access, indicates in its explanatory memorandum that "it

is necessary to review the Obstacles and bottlenecks that exist in regulations

and in public management procedures and instruments and, once analyzed, reforms must be undertaken that allow for a modern and agile administration capable of responding to the challenge that the execution of projects related to funds from the European Instrument for Recovery raise ".

Deadlines are reduced, obligations to present previously mandatory reports from the Ministry of Finance are eliminated, the need to motivate urgency in administrative decisions is removed ... There is a long etcetera of debureaucratization and the striking article 66.1 is included that allows subsidies to be given out of the European fund without the need for a public tender.

It establishes that "in the case of subsidies related to the use of European funds whose purpose is to

finance specific actions or situations that do not require a comparative assessment with other proposals

, award resolutions may be issued in order of submission of applications once the verification of concurrency of the eligible situation or action and compliance with the rest of the requirements ".

The limit will be "until the budget credit assigned in the call is exhausted."

Government sources point out that a broad streamlining is necessary to be able to absorb in the remainder of the legislature the around 70,000 million extra that Brussels provides for Spain within the 750,000 million program agreed last July.

The Spanish amount reaches up to 140,000 million if the loans are added and the Government wants to be the first to present a distribution plan next January, if by then the vetoes of Hungary and Poland have already been deactivated.

Single window chaired by Sánchez

Everything will be channeled through a portal that will constitute the "one-stop shop" of the Plan, "facilitating requests and processing of procedures to the interested parties, as a formal point of relationship with the Administration."

Moncloa ensures full control, because the structure will be chaired by an interministerial commission personally led by the Prime Minister,

Pedro Sánchez.

"A Commission for Recovery, Transformation and Resilience will be created

to be chaired by the President of the Government and in which the Ministers of the government areas

most closely linked to the implementation of the European Recovery Instrument will participate."

They will all be economic ministers of the PSOE with the exception of the Minister of Labor,

Yolanda Díaz

.

The monitoring will not be carried out by the economic vice president, Nadia Calviño, but also by Moncloa through the economic adviser to the president, Manuel de la Rocha.

"The Monitoring Unit, which will provide continuous information to the President of the Government, will carry out a political and strategic monitoring of the Plan to encourage all the actors to work for an efficient absorption of European funds and a full use of them, in coherence with the structural reforms that sustain ".

Yes, the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, is entrusted with dialogue with the autonomous communities and "consultative forums" with social agents and the private sector will also be created.

Government partners with companies

The debureaucratization of the Royal Decree is accompanied by unprecedented state support in the private sector.

To this end, the new regulations make it easier for the Government to associate itself with large companies, as this newspaper published last Monday, since they are those with the capacity to deploy telecommunications or renewable energy networks, which are some of the priorities set by the Union European for the distribution of money.

They will be called Strategic Projects for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTE)

and will allow a "co-investment" association between the Government and, among others, large groups of the Ibex.

The Royal Decree foresees the creation of consortia or groups "as instruments of public-private collaboration for the execution of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan of the Spanish Economy".

They will be "

channels to deal with projects of the magnitude that said Plan supposes

, and in which the members will jointly be considered beneficiaries of the subsidy, and will be jointly and severally liable with respect to the set of subsidized activities to be developed by the group, including the obligation to justify, the duty to reimburse or reimburse loan installments, and the responsibilities for infractions ", the text states.

The Government plans to advance a maximum of 50% of European money for these projects "prior to the execution and justification of the benefits provided in this type of business."

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