Emerxencias awards civil protection equipment to 39 councils with ERDF funds

The Department of Presidency, Justice and Sports has resolved the award, for the year 2026 and under a competitive bidding process, of emergency equipment to municipalities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants, associations of municipalities, and groupings of Galician councils. The decision was published as the Resolution of November 6, 2026 in the Official Gazette of Galicia (Diario Oficial de Galicia) no. 218, Friday, November 13, 2026, in section III (Other provisions), with the official reference CVE-DOG: xivnrgs0-jzy9-4hb5-9b64-skbpzofowwm2. The material is co-financed by the European Union at 60% within the framework of the Galicia Feder 2021-2027 program, assigned to procedure code PR450A.

The framework of the call

The call stems from the Order of August 3, 2026, published in the DOG no. 152, on August 13, which established the regulatory bases and opened the procedure. According to article 11 of that order, the resolution would correspond to the regional minister, but the fourth final provision delegates the competence to the director general of Emergencies and Interior, the official who signs the document, Santiago Villanueva Álvarez.

The instruction was closed with the proposals from the Evaluation Commission on November 2, 2026, and from the instructing body on November 3. The equipment was acquired charged to budget application 05.A1.212A.623.0 of the general budgets of the Autonomous Community for 2026, within political objective 2, priority P2A for green transition and specific objective RSO2.4, aimed at promoting adaptation to climate change and the prevention of disaster risk.

Two lines of material and 39 beneficiary entities

The award distributes the material into two lines, with 19 entities in the first and 20 in the second:

• Line 1. Road safety logistics material kits: Rianxo (56.95 points), Vilaboa (55.54), Dumbría (54.51), O Barco de Valdeorras (54.34), Padrón (53.77), Cee (50.94), Cambados (42.95), Toén (41.31), Baños de Molgas (40.03), Larouco (38.50), Parada de Sil (38.42), Oroso (37.95), Vilamartín de Valdeorras (37.49), Vila de Cruces (36.79), Viveiro (36.26), A Mezquita (36.19), Rois (35.96), Vilariño de Conso (35.75) and Vilardevós (35.75).
• Line 2. Electric tool kits for emergency response: Mancomunidade Val Miñor (65.63 points), A Rúa (53.36), Coles (43.65), A Gudiña (42.52), O Pereiro de Aguiar (40.59), Caldas de Reis (40.35), Portas (39.88), Culleredo (36.93), Moaña (34.89), the Grouping of councils of Ribeira do Miño —composed of Arbo, As Neves and Crecente— (34.83), Mos (34.71), Muros (33.93), Fene (33.60), Cartelle (31.91), Laza (31.02), Zas (30.29), Quiroga (29.54), Ribadeo (29.47), Avión (28.49) and Ponteceso (28.38).

The distribution was carried out according to the total score obtained by the applicants, and the list covers municipalities from the four provinces, with a prominent presence of small mountain and rural municipalities, groups that usually face greater difficulties in providing their civil protection services.

Reserve list and acceptance deadlines

The resolution establishes, as Annex II, a reserve list of 79 entities for the purpose of redistributing the equipment in the event of a waiver by any beneficiary or the possible acquisition of more material. This redistribution will subsequently be submitted to the competent body for resolution and will take into account the score achieved by each entity and the non-obtainment of equipment of the same kind in the first allocation, without affecting the initial distribution.

In line 1, the reserve is headed by Os Blancos (35.42), Fisterra (35.23), Maside (33.29), Ares (32.69) and A Laracha (31.21). In line 2, the first places are Outes (26.66), Malpica de Bergantiños (26.42), Guitiriz (26.20), Xunqueira de Espadanedo (25.60) and Abegondo (24.60). The list closes with Triacastela (8.20) and Montederramo (13.02), respectively.

Beneficiaries have a period of ten business days from the publication in the DOG to accept or waive the equipment; after this period without an express manifestation, it will be understood as tacitly accepted. Once the grant is accepted, the transfer act will be signed, with an estimated period of three months from the receipt of the material, which could be extended according to the deliveries planned in the supply contracts: files AXGE.26.FEDER.05 and AXGE.26.FEDER.03 (accounting reference 2023 00001), for an amount of 185,989.00 euros, VAT included. Against the resolution, which exhausts the administrative route, an appeal for reversal may be filed within one month or a contentious-administrative appeal within two months.

Impact for the territory

The resolution provides logistical material and power tools to the civil protection of nearly four dozen local entities, with a reserve that extends to 118 the entities with the possibility of receiving equipment as long as there are stocks or new acquisitions. For small municipalities, the dependence on European funds and the regional budget is decisive for keeping volunteer groups operational and responding with their own means to emergencies in the territory.

Source: Official Gazette of Galicia, no. 218, of November 13, 2026, section III, p. 56833 (official reference: CVE-DOG: xivnrgs0-jzy9-4hb5-9b64-skbpzofowwm2).