The Metropolitan Area borrows 35 million for 2026 budget investments

The Metropolitan Council of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) initially approved, in an ordinary session on October 27, 2026, a modification of the entity’s budget for the 2026 financial year through a credit supplement financed by the arrangement of a debt operation of 35,000,000.00 euros. The agreement is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona on November 3, 2026, with the official reference CVE 202610161821 and file 914191/26, and is subject to a public information period of fifteen business days.

The modification is framed within article 169.1 of the Royal Legislative Decree 2/2004, of March 5, which approves the revised text of the Law regulating local treasuries. The file was signed by the entity’s secretary, Mireia Grau Sadurní, on October 28, 2026, the day after the Metropolitan Council session.

Income: a 35 million operation

The income statement includes an increase of 34,971,998.75 euros in application X1050 91107 for debt for new investments, to which a second adjustment of 28,001.25 euros for extraordinary credit with the same form of financing is added. The consolidated result is a debt operation of 35,000,000.00 euros, which is concentrated entirely in chapter 9 (financial liabilities).

By expenditure chapters, the distribution is as follows:

• Chapter 6, real investments: 32,009,467.74 euros, of which 31,981,466.49 corresponds to the credit supplement and 28,001.25 to the extraordinary credit.
• Chapter 7, capital transfers: 2,990,532.26 euros.

Destination of funds: investment plans, PSA and headquarters

The detail of the expenditure applications shows that the majority of the new debt is destined for metropolitan investment plans and the financing of actions in municipalities and in specific intervention areas:

• Actions of the 2025-2028 PACTE Investment Plan: 11,656,532.88 euros.
• Actions of the 2025-2028 TCAP Investment Plan: 1,809,887.03 euros.
• Technical assistance of the 2025-2028 Investment Plan: 1,376,331.81 euros.
• INV PSA actions: 10,977,590.46 euros.
• PSA technical assistance: 537,110.51 euros.
• Actions of the 2020-2023 PACTE Investment Plan: 1,716,666.67 euros.
• Actions of the 2020-2023 TCAP Investment Plan: 1,180,645.23 euros.
• PSG 2020-2023: 1,971,531.86 euros, and PSG 2016-2019: 628,470.99 euros.
• Remodeling of the headquarters: 2,560,256.96 euros.
• Investments in metropolitan parks: 522,837.44 euros.
• PAI Impuls Besòs: 62,138.16 euros, between actions (28,001.25) and technical assistance (34,136.91).

The agreement also updates the detail of subsidies, contributions, and other aids from the 2026 budget, with new allocations for the TCAP Investment Plan 2020-2023 (11,653,744.71 euros) and for the TCAP Investment Plan 2025-2028 (4,986,519.29 euros). In both cases, the planned method of granting is the metropolitan program, the beneficiaries are the metropolitan city councils, and the objective is programmed actions.

Fifteen days to submit allegations

The file is submitted for public information for fifteen business days, counted in accordance with article 169.1 of the revised text of local finances, with publication in the official bulletin and on the entity’s notice board. During this period, it may be consulted at the Secretariat of the Metropolitan Area, at street 62, number 16, building A, second floor, Barcelona, from 9:00 to 14:00 hours, or by electronic means, upon prior request to secretaria@amb.cat.

If no allegations are submitted, the modification will be understood as definitively approved and must be published on the notice board and, with the modified chapters, in the Official Provincial Gazette, in accordance with article 169.3 of Royal Legislative Decree 2/2004 and article 112.3 of Law 7/1985, of April 2. Simultaneously with the submission to the bulletin, a copy must be sent to the Generalitat de Catalunya and the General State Administration.

An administrative contentious appeal may be filed against the definitive agreement before the administrative contentious Chamber of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia within two months from the day following publication, according to article 171.1 of the same legal text.

The decision directly affects the metropolitan city councils, which are beneficiaries of a large part of the contributions, and conditions the execution calendar of the investment plans planned for the 2025-2028 period. With the operation, the AMB increases its debt by 35 million euros in a financial year in which investment becomes the main area of budget expansion.

Fuente: Official Provincial Gazette of Barcelona, November 3, 2026, Local Administration, pp. 1-3 (official reference: CVE 202610161821).