Shock Plan: Institutions involved
These projects will be undertaken jointly by the Ministry of the Environment, which
is responsible for the high distribution networks, and the Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food, which is responsible for the low distribution systems. This joint
action, based on criteria of coordination and efficacy, will doubtless have a synergic
effect in ensuring the accomplishment of the objectives set.
With respect to financing and executing the action programme, the MAFF has all the
funds provided for in the respective budgetary items considered in chapter VI of
the Directorate-General for Rural Development; the funds of chapter VIII (SEIASAS)
and the funds of chapter VI through commissioning Empresa de Transformación Agraria S.A (TRAGSA), a instrumental resource of the Government, to proceed with the
execution and pre-financing of the actions necessary for the construction of works
aimed at improving and consolidating irrigation systems.
In turn, the Ministry of the Environment will put up its own funds provided under
the respective budgetary items of chapter VI of the Water Directorate-General and
the Hydrographic Confederations. The system for financing such projects will be
subject to the provisions of article 114.2 of the revised text of the Water Act.
The financing and execution of the projects will involve the Government Water
Corporations in accordance with the provisions of the direct management agreement,
after signing the specific agreements with infrastructure-users.
Likewise, a fundamental factor will be the participation of the public sectors affected, especially the Irrigation Associations who will thus become involved in the framework of the requirements set by the World Trade Organisation and in the latest reforms made to the CAP of the European Union, adapted to the requirements of the Council Regulation on aid for rural development (EC) 1.698/2005 for the period 2007/2013, approved on September 20, 2005.
