AMAL -Comunidade Intermunicipal do Algarve will manage 180 million euros of community funds directed to the Algarve councils, in the 2030 Community Support Framework, resuming «a good practice» that «was lost in the previous funding period», announced António Pina, chairman of the entity that brings together the 16 municipalities of the Algarve, on Friday, the 13th of January.
On the sidelines of the most recent meeting of the Intermunicipal Council, which brings together the mayors of all the councils in the Algarve region, António Pina revealed that funds from the 2030 regional Operational Program are at stake, not counting the funds from the Plano Recovery and Resilience”.
The axes in which AMAL will have powers «of analysis, structuring of proposals and payment» are those «that concern municipalities, such as the urban water cycle, urban rehabilitation, civil protection or schools, among others. others".
«The executive committee is the same and the final decision is made by the same core, which includes a representative of AMAL, Mr. chairman of the Commission for Coordination and Regional Development of the Algarve and an element to be appointed by the Government», added the president of the Intermunicipal Community of the Algarve.
AMAL has, moreover, «a whole history of doing this work», as António Pina is well aware. «I am an employee of this house and for 25 years I worked, precisely, in the management of community funds, because we had responsibilities here at the level of axis 1».
These new tasks, and "given the size of this package" of EU funds, AMAL "will have to reinforce its structure" in order to be able to provide an adequate response.
«This is the way municipalities have to invest, so that fund management is quicker and more agile», concluded António Pina.
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