He first vice president of the regional government, José Luis Martínez Guijarroannounced that the Executive of Castile-La Mancha will promote amendments to the budget bill for 2025, whose parliamentary process has already begun, through the Municipal Socialist Group of the Regional Cortes to include in the articles an aid fund for the municipalities affected by the passage of the DANA and which allows the execution of the recovery plans for Letur (Albacete) and Mira (Cuenca).
Martínez Guijarro, who opened the series of appearances at the Economy and Budget Commission of the Autonomous Cortes, clarified that the Regional Government is already working in this direction, on the one hand, through these amendments, and on the other hand, with the articulated text, to “guarantee the most agile possible execution of this fund”.
At the same time, the Executive is integrating measures which will be included in the Law of Administrative Measures and Creation of the Digital Transformation Agency of Castile-La Manchaknown as the Budget Support Law, and the possibility is being considered that the Socialist Group of the Cortes presents a bill that includes measures for those areas damaged by the passage of the storm, as reported by the Council in a press note.
During his speech, Martínez Guijarro assured that the Regional Executive will continue to promote throughout the 202 economic projects of strategic interest for Castilla-La Manchaas has been done so far.
Examples of this are the “Toroverde” projects in Cuenca, “Meta Data Center Campus” in Talavera de la Reina, Hydnum Steel in Puertollano or the project of singular interest “Vortexia”, in the municipality of Humanes, in Guadalajara; the Cinema City, in Toledo; or the new developments in Motilla del Palancar, Tarancón and San Clemente within the framework of the Industrialization Plan of the Provincial Delegation of Cuenca.
In this sense, he recalled that the Executive is working on the development of the Administrative simplification and rationalization lawwith which the path of reducing obstacles and streamlining procedures will be followed and which seeks “a more modern, more dynamic, closer and, above all, more digitalized and proactive Administration, which seeks to reformulate the relationship with citizens and businesses.
Furthermore, the future standard includes the regulation of the use of artificial intelligence in regional administration as a tool to provide services to citizens, providing the regional legal system with “guarantee regulation to guarantee the use of this tool and other technological tools in processes. “of our competence”, for which it is absolutely necessary for the region to equip itself with advanced and transparent regulation in terms of Artificial Intelligence, data governance, use of automated procedures or new relationship tools with the managed person, like Citizen Space. .
“Here,” he said, “it is essential to be able to use all the data available to the autonomous community.” Therefore, to reuse all data, ensure its correct use, generation and sharing, the Data Office was created.
Finally, the first vice-president stopped at the General Directorate for Monitoring the Recovery Plan, responsible for coordinating and promoting actions linked to the implementation in Castile-La Mancha of the European Recovery Fund, Next Generation-EUparticularly with regard to the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (MRR), and its development at the regional level through the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR).
Thanks to this work, to date, and according to data from the Regional Administration, Castilla-La Mancha has executed more than 1,000 million of the 1,380 entrusted to it. In other words, the Autonomous Community has executed more than 74 percent of the money planned under the Recovery Plan.
The management that Castilla-La Mancha is doing to effectively resolve the funds of the Recovery Plan has led the Autonomous Community to be among the first four regions in terms of resolution data for the entire country, as reflected in the visualization tool ELISA data, data visualization system. Ministry of the Economy, which allows the monitoring of calls for tenders and subsidies, as well as their resolution, with more than twelve points above the average.
