The Government has announced the candidacies it has received for the physical location of the Spanish Space Agenda and the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence (AESIA). Specifically, for 21 have been presented for the first and 14 for the second, whose admission will be conditioned to the fact that the Advisory Commission verifies that they meet the established requirements.
The Ministry of Territorial Policy, one of the agencies leading this initiative, has described the procedure as “successful” to determine the headquarters of the new public state agencies. “It has been very well received”, they have pointed out from the organization through a press release.
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Specific, for the Spanish Space Agency Cabanillas del Campo (Guadalajara) have presented themselves; Cebreros (Avila); Ciudad Real (Royal City); Elche (Alicante); Estella-Lizarra (Navarra); Huelva (Huelva); Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz); L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona); Las Palmas de Gran Canaria/Agüimes/ San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Las Palmas); Lion Lion); Ourense (Ourense); Palencia (Palencia); Puerto del Rosario (Las Palmas); Puertollano (Ciudad Real); San Javier (Murcia); Island of Tenerife (Santa Cruz de Tenerife); Seville (Seville); Teruel (Teruel); Three Songs (Madrid); Vitoria (Araba/Álava); and Yebes (Guadalajara).
While, for the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence A Coruña (A Coruña) have applied; Alicante (Alicante); Barcelona (Barcelona); Gijon (Asturias); Grenada (Grenada); Guadalajara (Guadalajara); Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz); Leganes (Madrid); Ourense (Ourense); Palma (Balearic Islands); Salamanca (Salamanca); Island of Tenerife (Santa Cruz de Tenerife); Segovia (Segovia) and Zaragoza (Zaragoza).
In addition, the Government has specified that, if there is, other possible places that have been presented outside the electronic headquarters of the Ministry will be added to those already indicated.
Focus on decentralization
This list has been released on the occasion of the end of the period for submitting candidacies, which began at the beginning of October, with the publication in the BOE of the criteria that will determine the election, and ended yesterday, November 7.
Specifically, the particularities were defined by the Advisory Commission, chaired by the Minister of Territorial Policy, Isabel Rodríguez, and which includes representatives of the Ministries of Territorial Policy; Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation; Work and Social Economy; Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge; Foreign Affairs; European Union and Cooperation; Treasury and Public Function; Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda; Presidency; Relations with the Courts and Democratic Memory; and Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda.
The Commission will now request a report, which must be issued within 10 daysto the Ministries of affiliation (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation in the case of AESIA and to the Ministries of Science and Innovation and Defense for the Space Agency).
After that, an opinion will be drawn up that will analyze the possible venues for the affected entity, where the Government specifies that they may be taken into consideration locations that have not appliedbut that meet the criteria.
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The opinion will be sent to the Government Delegate Commission for the Demographic Challenge and will be submitted to the Council of Ministers which, after assessing it, will make its decision.
Specifically, the Executive specified when he announced the criteria that the final decision will be known in a maximum period of three months from the start of the procedure, Therefore, it is expected that during the first quarter of the year the location that will house both agencies will be known.
From the Executive they reiterate that the decentralization of public organizations is one of the main goals they want to achieve with this procedure, since the positive impact of the institutions on the physical environment of their location has been demonstrated, as well as the creation of direct and indirect jobs. .
According to them, this principle will strengthen equal opportunity by making it easier for citizens, regardless of their place of residence, to be able to relate to or even work directly in units of state public institutions.
