This document, which is open and based on artificial intelligence, will allow local councils and the private sector to identify sites with asbestos and their mandatory removal.
The Ministry of Enterprise, Employment and Energy, through the Directorate General of Circular Economy, Energy Transition and Climate Change, has put out to tender the preparation of a digital census of facilities and sites with asbestos in the Balearic Islands, which should contain information on both public and private buildings containing this hazardous substance.
The register, which will be open and based on artificial intelligence, will comply with the State Law on Waste and Contaminated Soil for a Circular Economy and the Sectoral Master Plan for the Prevention and Management of Hazardous Waste in the Balearic Islands and will allow a timetable to be established for the removal of asbestos throughout the territory by 2028.
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The Government calls for tenders for the creation of a census of facilities with asbestos that will facilitate the removal of this hazardous waste throughout the territory before 2028
The census must comply with the provisions set out in Annex I of the Guidelines for removing installed asbestos drawn up by the Ministries of Energy Transition and Demographic Challenge, Health and Labour and Social Economy. In addition, it must be consultable in the general viewer of the IDEIB (Spatial Data Infrastructure of the Balearic Islands).
The deadline for interested companies to submit bids is 22 January and the project must be completed within six months of the contract award.
The director general of Circular Economy, Energy Transition and Climate Change, Diego Viu, recalled that according to the Law on Waste and Contaminated Soil for a Circular Economy, municipalities are required to have a census of buildings with asbestos and proceed to its identification and removal on schedule.
In this sense, Viu stressed that, through this tender, the government will facilitate compliance with national regulations for public administrations in the territory. ‘The Government, anticipating and to speed up the process and have a single census, is putting out to tender a census for public and private buildings indistinctly, with technologies based on artificial intelligence and images of geographic information systems,’ said the director general. It should be noted that, at the moment, only the municipality of Eivissa has complied with the regulation.
The Regional Ministry of Enterprise, Employment and Energy plans to call for subsidies to help public administrations and the private sector to carry out the necessary investments to eliminate this hazardous waste from buildings.