The Council of Ministers (CM) approved on Thursday the financial instruments for urban regeneration and energy efficiency, which add support of 600 million euros, but that associated with private funds, notably the European Bank loan Investment Bank (EIB) will represent a volume of financing of 3000 million euros by 2020.
Financial instruments now approved, sustained in Portugal in 2020, allow to provide EUR 247 million for urban renewal and EUR 366 million for the improvement of energy efficiency.
Speaking to PUBLIC, Manuel Reis Campos, President of the Association of Manufacturers of Civil Construction and Public Works (AICCOPN), stresses the importance of the now approved programs by the amount of support concerned, but also by the scope of projects that can be supported.
“This is the program that will enable boost definitively urban regeneration “, sustains Reis Campos, while expressing the wish that” the components that may be defined for its implementation are not too tight. “
The associative leader assumes that “did not want the support to private sector projects were directed only to the conditioned incomes [as with the Rehabilitation program for Sale], excluding rehabilitation for housing and for rent.”
Funding for energy efficiency can be used for renewable energy projects for self in the central and local administration, as well as in private households, mainly in interventions aimed at reducing consumption by at least 15% and increase at least two levels in the energy performance certificate.
In the area of urban renewal, the support is for the government, businesses and private housing to enhance the “comprehensive rehabilitation of buildings aged less than 30 years or, in the case of lower age, showing a conservation level equal to or less than two “.
” The financial instrument is also intended to public space, since it appears associated with recovery measures the group of buildings, and spaces and abandoned industrial facilities with a view to conversion “, reads the government statement.
The targets specified in the Commitment to Green Growth are urban regeneration in 2030, representing 23% of the volume of the construction sector business. The energy consumption in homes, private and public administration should be lower by 30%.
The Council of Ministers also approved the operational framework of financial instruments, based on a mission structure the one to exercise management functions of the Financial Instrument for the Rehabilitation and Urban Revitalization (IFRRU 2020) for urban renewal and urban revitalization in the Portugal 2020.
The operating framework, depending on the Property Institute and the Urban Rehabilitation (IHRU), “ensure the technical assistance at the stage of formation and implementation of IFFRU 2020, maintaining close coordination with the managing authorities of operational programs, other donors and promoters of urban rehabilitation operations” the statement of the CM. With Lusa
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