Fifteen municipalities in Granada lose Puntos Vuela grants for failure to justify expenses

The Governing Board of the Provincial Council of Granada has agreed to initiate proceedings for the loss of the right to collect the 2025 Puntos Vuela subsidies for fifteen municipalities that failed to provide any supporting documentation. The agreement was adopted in an extraordinary session on October 14, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Granada number 206, dated October 23, 2026, with reference BOP-GRA-2026-206001 and file 2026/PES_01/011224.

The call for these grants was approved by resolution of the corporation’s president with the Governing Board on May 12, 2025, with guidelines published in BOP number 91 on May 16, 2025, and in the National Grants Database under identification number 832421. This line is part of the Strategic Grants Plan of the New Technologies Service for the 2024 to 2026 fiscal years and is aimed at municipalities and autonomous local entities in the province with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants, or those that already managed a public internet access center previously.

The Puntos Vuela de Andalucía Consortium, a collaborating entity via an agreement signed on March 19, 2025, was responsible for reviewing the beneficiaries’ documentation. The entities had three months from the publication of the award resolution, issued on September 19, 2025, to provide justification; the consortium forwarded the file to the Digital Transformation Registry on May 11, 2026, under number 2026025632.

Fifteen town halls without justification

The report from the head of the Projects, Platforms, and Operations Area of the consortium confirms that the following municipalities failed to submit any documentation:

• Alquife
• Carataunas
• Cástaras
• Dilar
• Domingo Pérez
• Dúrcal
• Galera
• Gualchos
• Güéjar Sierra
• Huéneja
• Huétor Santillán
• La Malahá
• Torrenueva Costa
• Villanueva de las Torres
• La Zubia

Added to these are Las Gabias, Lugros, and Rubite, which did not submit an application for the call.

Requirements, allegations, and loss of the right to collect

The Assessment Group provided for in Article 5 of the guidelines, appointed by resolution number 3514 on June 24, 2024, reviewed the file in a session on June 12, 2026, and proposed four actions:

• Issue requests for justification in accordance with Article 70.3 of the General Grants Law Regulations.
• Approve the justification accounts submitted by the entities that did comply.
• Pay the remaining 10%, or the corresponding settlement, to those who proved the objectives of the grant.
• Initiate proceedings for the loss of the right to collect for entities with a positive settlement of less than 10%, for the difference between the amount granted and the justified amount.

Additionally, a period for submissions is opened in accordance with Article 71.2 of the same regulation, highlighting the provisional accounts of the entities that justified less than 90% of the amount granted.

Amounts of up to 7,526.69 euros per entity

The annex of the agreement lists the approved justifying accounts, with three grant tiers according to the agreement group:

• Group A: 4,764.95 euros granted, 4,288.46 euros paid at 90%, and 476.49 euros as the 10% settlement.
• Group B: 7,526.69 euros granted, 6,774.02 euros paid, and 752.66 euros pending.
• Group C: 4,045.54 euros granted, 3,640.99 euros paid, and 404.55 euros pending.

The agreement is signed by Mónica Castillo de la Rica, first vice-president and delegated deputy for Tourism, Transparency, Human Resources, and Digital Transformation, by delegation conferred through resolution number 4780 of July 28, 2026. No administrative appeal may be filed against the resolution, which ends the administrative process, although an optional request for annulment may be formulated within two months or a contentious-administrative appeal may be filed before the Court of First Instance of Granada.

The decision affects small municipalities in the interior and the Alpujarra, where the “Punto Vuela” is the main public access route to the internet and digital procedures. The loss of the aid leaves the revitalization of these centers without funding and forces local treasuries to cover the difference or renounce the subsidized service.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Granada, no. 206, October 23, 2026, Local Administration – Provincial Council of Granada, p. 3 (official reference: BOP-GRA-2026-206001).