The Badalona Plenary delegates the extension of the viaduct agreement to the mayor

The Plenary of the Badalona City Council has specifically delegated to the mayor the approval of the extension of the collaboration agreement signed with the public sector company Marina Badalona, S.A. and the railway infrastructure administrator (ADIF) for the execution of the viaduct over the Badalona Port canal and the underpass of Tortosa Street. The agreement also includes the authority to increase the planned municipal financial contributions and to sign the corresponding addendum. The text is published in full in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona on November 12, 2026, with the reference CVE 202610166963 and file 2026/53548L.

The original agreement was signed on December 26, 2022, and aims for three linked actions: the construction of a viaduct over the Badalona port canal at Ponent Street, the urbanization of the Tortosa Street underpass, and the renovation of the railway track between Badalona station and the metallic section of Sant Adrià de Besòs. According to the eighth clause of the document, the agreed duration was four years, with the possibility of an express extension for an additional period of up to four more years, in accordance with article 49.h) 2nd of Law 40/2015, of October 1.

Three administrations and one shared project

The agreement involves three signing parties with differentiated responsibilities over the same area of action:

• The Badalona City Council, as the urban promoter and holder of the municipal financial contributions.
• Marina Badalona, S.A., a local public sector company linked to the city’s maritime facade.
• ADIF, as the administrator of the railway infrastructures affected by the action.

The action affects the Badalona Port canal, Ponent Street, and Tortosa Street, in a section where the road network and the railway infrastructure overlap.

Higher cost and longer deadline

The origin of the addendum is a report dated October 25, 2026, from the head of the Legal Service and General Administration of the Territory and Sustainability Area. The report states that, during the execution of the actions, it was necessary to modify the project, which resulted in a cost increase compared to the initial forecasts of the agreement and an extension of the project’s execution deadline. These circumstances necessitate extending the initially agreed validity and processing an addendum.

The third clause of the agreement, dedicated to the financing of the actions, already provided that the Monitoring Commission would specify the annual payment installments of each party as long as there was no economic increase or extension of the term; otherwise, it expressly established the need for a modifying addendum. The following day, October 26, the Director of Urban Planning issued another report, with the approval of the second Deputy Mayor, to include the delegation on the agenda of the Plenary session of November 2 without a prior report from the informative commission.

What the Plenary has approved

The plenary agreement, adopted by simple majority, deploys the following mandates:

• Delegate to the mayor the approval of the extension of the agreement and the modification of the financial contributions of the third and eighteenth clauses.
• Empower him to sign the addendum and any document necessary for its effectiveness.
• Establish that the delegation shall expire automatically upon the signing of the addendum or upon the completion of the procedures for its legal effectiveness.
• Prevent the delegated powers from being re-delegated to any other body.
• Determine that the delegation shall take effect from the day after the adoption of the agreement, without prejudice to its publication in the provincial bulletin.
• Notify the agreement to the interested parties, publish it, and report it to the next informative commission.

The original competence belongs to the Plenary because the cumulative duration of the agreement and the extension exceeds four years, according to articles 22.2 of Law 7/1985, of April 2, and 52.2 of the Revised Text of the Municipal and Local Regime Law of Catalonia, in accordance with article 174.5 of the Revised Text of the Law regulating Local Treasuries. Article 22.4 of the same law allows for the delegation of this power, and article 9.3 of Law 40/2015 requires the publication of delegations in the official provincial bulletin. The agreement exhausts the administrative route and is immediately executable; an appeal for reversal may be filed against it within one month or a contentious-administrative appeal within two months. The document is signed by the general secretary, Victor Siles Marc, on November 5, 2026.

Impact for residents

The extension directly affects the connectivity between the port canal, the railway front, and the neighborhoods surrounding Tortosa Street, and comes after nearly four years of works with a revised and more expensive project. With the delegation, the approval of the addendum no longer depends on a new plenary session and passes into the hands of the mayor’s office, which will be able to sign it once the minutes are finalized.

Fuente: Butlletí Oficial de la Província de Barcelona, 12 de novembre de 2026, Administració local, pàg. 1-3 (referència oficial: CVE 202610166963).