He Spanish government specified in writing to the municipalities concerned by DANA, including that of Valenceof “ineligible” expenses as part of the aid promised to cover 100% of repairs.
“Actions aimed at restoring a public service are not eligible.. Services which do not fall under municipal jurisdiction should be excluded, as well as those which, even if they are, are considered to be secondary services for the purposes of guaranteeing the safety and health of people”, warns the letter to which EL ESPAÑOL had access.
These are, according to the letter sent by the Government Delegation of the Valencian Community, “sports facilities, municipal buildings of a cultural nature, access to industrial, forestry or agricultural farms in which there is no no inhabited area, etc.”
“Exceptionally, the evacuation of water and the cleaning of sludge in schools, as well as work in cemeteries, may be considered as “emergency expenditure” when the situation is caused by a landslide or landslide causing a risk to human health. “, adds the Executive in the document.
The above-mentioned clarification from the Government, attached here in its entirety, also emphasizes that “are excluded of the concept of emergency expenses, in any case, work carried out with one’s own means of the local corporationwhether materials, such as machines, tools, etc., or human beings, understood as personnel hired before the causal events.
“Under no circumstances will personnel costs generated by firefighters, local police, civil protection and others of a similar nature be eligible,” the letter underlines.
Finally, continues the document from the Government Delegation, “it is appropriate to recall the distinction provided in the preamble to Royal Decree 307/2005 between emergency actions and other actions to repair goods and services.”
“The emergency actions that local authorities can take are defined at the very moment when the events occur, or immediately after, these other actions aimed at repairing goods and services, which could be financed, if necessary, with credits from the competent ministerial departments”, specifies.
