en.Wedoany.com Reported - This Thursday, the plenary session of the Spanish Congress of Deputies approved a bill to transfer the management and ownership of the AP-9 highway to the autonomous community of Galicia. The People's Party (PP) and Vox voted against it. The bill will now be sent to the Senate for further consideration, followed by transfer negotiations conducted by a bilateral commission formed by the Xunta de Galicia and the central government.

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), and Sumar reached an agreement several weeks ago to promote the transfer of both the management and ownership of the AP-9 highway to the Xunta de Galicia. This agreement resulted in an organic law proposal, which the PP considers does not respect the original intent of the text previously negotiated and approved in the Parliament of Galicia (Parlamento de Galicia). The PSOE had proposed an amendment to avoid the transfer of ownership, but the new text sets the objective of "transferring the ownership of the AP-9, along with the powers related to the legal regime of the concession, as well as the functions and services of the AP-9 highway, to the autonomous community of Galicia."

According to Europa Press, the General State Administration (Administración General del Estado) and the autonomous community will submit a proposal for an agreement to the Joint Transfer Commission (Comisión Mixta de Transferencia) to determine the conditions and limitations of the transfer of powers. The proposal must specify the conditions for the transfer of various functions, including the authorization for the entry into service of new sections, the renovation or rerouting of existing sections, and the construction of highway connections and service roads. The proposal will also outline the supervision and inspection of the normal operation of the highway, as well as the power to impose penalties for violations by the concessionaire. Furthermore, the proposal will address clauses concerning modifications to the economic-financial regime of the concession and the conditions for drafting and approving existing agreements or additional clauses.

The General State Administration will continue to assume its obligations regarding the economic and financial impacts on the concession company arising from modifications approved during its jurisdiction that apply to the current concession. The consequences of decisions made by the State Administration prior to the transfer will be borne by that administration. For its part, the Xunta de Galicia's desired modifications to the economic-financial regime of the concession must not affect established economic commitments.

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