The Provincial Council of León allocates 545,000 euros to occupational safety in the countryside

The Provincial Council of León has announced grants totaling 545,000 euros for companies in the agricultural sector to finance actions to improve health and safety conditions in their workplaces. The Corporation’s Plenary approved the guidelines on October 28, 2026, and the summary is published in the BOP of León no. 214, dated November 11, 2026, with the reference BOP-LE-2026-214001 and identification number BDNS 940949.

Who can apply and for what purpose

Private for-profit companies—natural persons, private legal entities, joint ventures, and other entities without legal personality—with headquarters in municipalities of the province of León with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants may apply. The actions must directly impact centers and workplaces located in municipalities with fewer than 2,000 inhabitants within the provincial territory.

Companies must be classified under one of these activity codes:

• CNAE 01: agriculture, livestock, hunting, and related services.
• CNAE 02: forestry and logging.
• CNAE 03: fishing and aquaculture.

All public sector entities are excluded. The call complies with the provisions of Royal Decree 1215/1997, regarding the use of work equipment, and Royal Decree 486/1997, regarding workplaces.

Five types of eligible improvements

Applications may cover all or some of the following measures:

• Acquisition or adaptation of machinery specific to the activity.
• Conditioning of agricultural and livestock production warehouses.
• Improvement of storage areas.
• Improvement of access to facilities.
• Acquisition and installation of semi-automatic portable defibrillators (AED), including training for their use and a minimum service commitment of two years, in accordance with Decree 9/2008 and its subsequent amendments.

Expenses must be executed between January 1, 2026, and December 31, 2027. Taxes such as VAT, the purchase of transport vehicles, asbestos removal, and the rental or repair of machinery and equipment are not eligible for subsidies.

Amount, deadline, and processing

The total amount is 545,000 euros, and each beneficiary will receive 85% of the submitted budget, with a cap of 30,000 euros. If demand exceeds the available credit, applications will be ranked according to the scale in the sixth base.

The submission period is twenty business days from the day following the publication of the summary in the BOP. The application process is exclusively electronic, via the Council’s headquarters (sede.dipuleon.es), and requires Annex I, Annex II (responsible declaration), a detailed budget or pro-forma invoice, a report of actions with photographs of the initial situation, and, if the number of workers is to be considered, the TC2 form.

The justification must be submitted no later than February 15, 2028, along with annexes III to VI, invoices, payment documents, and proof of the dissemination measures of the provincial collaboration. The grants are compatible with others, provided they do not exceed the cost of the activity, and are subject to the de minimis regime of Regulation (EU) 1408/2013: if, together with other grants, the amount exceeds 25,000 euros in the 2024, 2025, and 2026 financial years, the contribution will be proportionally reduced. The competent body for resolution is the Plenary; the extract was signed on November 4, 2026, by the Delegate Deputy for Rural Development.

Impact

The line aims to reduce the rates of serious and fatal accidents in the agricultural sector, which is highly prevalent in the province of León, and to improve the response to accidents in small farms, where investment in prevention is more difficult to assume. The limit of 2,000 inhabitants for workplaces concentrates the effort on the least populated rural areas, while the ceiling of 30,000 euros per beneficiary requires prioritizing specific actions over comprehensive reforms.

Source: BOP de León, no. 214, November 11, 2026, section I (Local Administration, Provincial Councils), pp. 4-7 (official reference: BOP-LE-2026-214001).