SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 27 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Government Council of the Canary Islands has authorized this Thursday, at the proposal of the Minister of Public Administrations, Justice and Security, Julio Pérez, the distribution of the Canary Islands Municipal Financing Fund corresponding to the year 2023, which amounts to 343,448,920 euros, which means 17.6% more than in 2022, whose amount was 291,899,473 euros.
Of the global amount of said endowment, 340,014,420.80 euros will be distributed among the 88 municipalities of the islands.
The remaining one percent, 3,434,489.20 euros, will go to the Canary Islands Federation of Municipalities (Fecam), as established in article 3 of Law 3/1999, of January 4, on the Canary Islands Municipal Financing Fund. .
Said article also establishes that the distribution will be made based on the following criteria: population (68%), solidarity (16%), territorial dispersion (5%), school units (4%), territorial extension (2%) , protected natural spaces (2%), tourist accommodation places (2%) and peripheral insularity (1%).
In the case of solidarity, municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants are assigned 11% and the rest 5%.
In the same way, for the population and territorial dispersion criteria, they will take into account the data provided by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) as of January 1, 2022, as well as the data related to the number of population centers in the municipality and the population of the capital of the municipality on that same date, includes a note from the Government.
To calculate the territorial extension of each municipality, the data is obtained from the Central Mapping Register of the National Geographic Institute (IGN) regarding the official areas of the Canary Islands municipalities as of January 1, 2023, while the area declared a protected natural area , school units and tourist accommodation places from data provided by the General Directorates of Territorial Planning, Ecological Transition and Water, and Centers, Infrastructure and Educational Promotion and the Canary Islands Tourism Observatory.
