Entrepreneurs ask Pedro Sánchez for an urgent decree to temporarily modify laws to speed up European aid

 

The opportunity that the significant stimulus of European aid represents for Spain and its companies –140,000 million euros to be distributed over six years– must be taken advantage of. And for this, it is necessary, according to businessmen, that the Executive streamline the procedures that allow access, as soon as possible, to such aid.

The CEOE employer association has sent the Government a proposal so that, through a decree law, specific provisions of the Public Sector Contracts Law and the General Subsidies Law be modified, “as well as other complementary regulations, which they are exclusively applicable with respect to the procedures to which European funds are destined “.

What employers are looking for with this initiative is to “maximize the impact” of European aid by “eliminating bottlenecks and bureaucratic obstacles in the current legislation on public contracts and subsidies”.

“The Plan itself Spain can, already warns of possible operational “bottlenecks”, due to lack of means, or legal, given the complexity of the process. If these obstacles are not overcome, by delaying spending commitments and, in this way, preventing them from being met with the amount assigned from the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism, the recovery of the Spanish economy to which it is n allocated these funds could be frustrated, with the consequent destruction of companies and jobs, “they explain from CEOE

CEOE’s proposal is not improvised. Since the beginning of October, a specific working group was set up within the CEOE Legal Committee, with “experts and national references” in Public Law and representatives of sectoral business organizations “with extensive experience in tenders and grants”.

The modifications that the employers’ association wants the Government to make to speed up the processing of European funds is “temporary.” Specifically, it proposes a “rule of urgency to this that temporarily exempts, without modifying them, the application of certain provisions of the legislation on public procurement and subsidies, when dealing with the distribution of funds Next Generation EU“, according to what the businessmen explained this Sunday in a statement