This call for subsidies will be used to pay for the implementation of population control plans for cat colonies and other expenses arising from the collection and care of stray and abandoned animals.
The Consell de Mallorca, through the Department of Economic Promotion and Local Development, has launched a new call for subsidies aimed at local councils for the fulfilment of the obligations derived from the law for the protection of animal rights and welfare.
This line of aid, endowed with 300,000 euros, responds to the needs of local councils to have sufficient economic funds to be able to assume the obligations imposed by Law 7/2023, of 28 March, so that, as far as possible, it has the least possible budgetary impact on municipal coffers.
The call for subsidies will be used to implement the obligation of local authorities to implement plans to control animal populations and other expenses arising from the care of abandoned or stray animals.
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The Consell de Mallorca provides 300,000 euros to town councils to help them comply with the Animal Welfare Law
In this way, the Consell de Mallorca fulfils the commitment made at the last Assembly of Mayors and Mayoralties, to call two new calls for grants for local councils: one line to help them comply with the animal welfare law and the other for the cleaning of municipal roads, totalling 500,000 euros.
The Councillor for Economic Promotion and Local Development explained that this new line of aid ‘responds to the requests made by the mayors themselves in recent months, who have asked us for financial support to be able to comply with the new obligations arising from the animal welfare regulations that apply to dogs and cats, vaccination and castration of abandoned animals, as well as other types of actions that represent a major expense for them’.
‘We are at the side of the local councils and our commitment is to reinforce the support we give them, as we are doing by providing local bodies with resources to deal with the problems they encounter daily’, added Pilar Amate, who pointed out that “this contribution of 300,000 euros is a first step towards helping the councils to comply with a regulation that represents a great burden for them, which is why we do not rule out reinforcing it in 2025”.
Actions to be funded
The actions that may be financed with this aid are the following: expenses derived from the collection of stray and abandoned animals and their accommodation in animal protection centres; expenses for the care of homeless animals that their owners cannot look after due to their vulnerability; expenses derived from public animal protection centres; health care for community cats, as well as training and information campaigns for the population on the management of cat colonies.
In addition, it will be possible to cover actions derived from population control plans for community cats, such as the mapping and census of cats, sterilisation programmes, deworming, vaccination and compulsory microchip identification, and the establishment of protocols for managing neighbourhood conflicts and inspections established by law.
These subsidies are voluntary and temporary and are compatible with other aid and subsidies that local councils may receive for this purpose, as long as they do not exceed 100% of the activity to be carried out.