Terrassa opens fifteen days for claims regarding the 2027 municipal budget

The Terrassa City Council has initially approved the General Budget for the year 2027, an agreement adopted by the Plenary in the session of November 3, 2026, and now published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona to open the public exhibition process. For fifteen business days, citizens may consult the full document, including all annexes required by current legislation, and submit claims against the planned expenditure and investment. The edict was published on November 11, 2026, with the official reference CVE 202610169705.

The text is framed within articles 169 and 177 of the Revised Text of the Law regulating Local Treasuries, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 2/2004, of March 5. The initial approval is not final: the public information period is the mandatory preliminary step before the budget is definitively approved, and it is during this phase that interested parties can question its content. The edict is signed by the Director of Economic and Financial Services, David Garcia Castelló, by delegation of the General Secretary of the Terrassa City Council, Óscar González Ballesteros, in an appointment dated May 8, 2025, and is dated Terrassa, November 10, 2026.

A consolidated budget with eight structures

The document does not only include the accounts of the municipal corporation, but the consolidated budget of the local public sector, which includes the execution bases of the council and the revenue and expenditure forecasts of the dependent entities:

• Eco-Equip, S.A.M.
• Egarvia, S.A.
• Foment de Terrassa, S.A.
• Funerària de Terrassa, S.A.
• Societat Municipal de Comunicació de Terrassa, S.A.
• Societat Municipal d’Habitatge de Terrassa, S.A.
• Terrassa Cicle de l’Aigua, EPEL

The inclusion of these companies means that the public exhibition also covers the activity of the funeral company, the communication company, the economic promotion company, the housing company, and the water management company, in addition to the municipal equipment company. Any allegation affecting these accounts must be submitted within the same period of fifteen business days.

Fifteen business days on the edicts board

The consultation is carried out on the Edicts Board of the Terrassa City Council, which is the official channel enabled for the exhibition of the budget and its annexes. The term is fifteen business days counted from the publication of the edict in the provincial gazette, meaning that the effective calendar depends on administrative business days and not on the count of calendar days.

Once this period has passed without claims, the initial approval will acquire a definitive character and the budget can be executed normally. If claims are submitted, the corporation must resolve them before closing the processing.

Three specific grounds for challenging the accounts

The edict recalls that article 170.2 of the Royal Legislative Decree 2/2004 limits claims to three specific scenarios and not to any political discrepancy or difference in criteria:

• That the preparation or approval of the budget has not complied with the procedures established by law.
• That the credit necessary to fulfill obligations enforceable on the local entity by legal precept or by any other legitimate title has been omitted.
• That the budgeted revenues are manifestly insufficient relative to the planned expenditures, or that the expenditures do not respond to the needs for which they are intended.

The first two scenarios are of a formal and legalistic nature; the third is the one that allows for an examination of the economic substance of the accounts and a discussion of the balance between what is expected to be received and what is planned to be spent. None of the three reasons opens the door to amending specific investment lines based on simple preference criteria.

For readers, the calendar matters: the publication on November 11 marks the start of the fifteen business day count, and the 2027 budget is the document that determines how much will be allocated to services, facilities, housing, water, and other areas managed by municipal companies. Anyone wishing to influence the accounts before they become final must do so within this window, because once closed, the approval no longer admits this route of claim.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona, November 11, 2026, Local Administration, p. 1 (official reference: CVE 202610169705).