The Court of Accounts warns that there are municipalities that are privatizing services without issuing sufficient reports

MADRID, 27 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Court of Accounts has alerted in one of its reports that some municipalities in Castilla-La Mancha and Extremadura outsourced the provision of some services without issuing reports on the insufficient means to justify their privatization.

This is one of the conclusions drawn by the Court of Accounts in the report on the audit of municipal control on the provision of street cleaning, waste collection and treatment and maintenance of parks and gardens services of the town halls of populated municipalities Between 50,000 and 100,000 inhabitants of autonomous communities without their own external control body for the year 2021.

Specifically, the Court of Accounts points to the municipalities of Guadalajara, Mérica, Molina de Segura, Talavera de la Reina and Toledo as the municipalities that provided services indirectly without previously carrying out studies on the most efficient way.

On the other hand, the municipalities of Cáceres, Ciudad Real, Talavera de la Reina and Toledo provided services without proper contractual coverage. The report also confirms that those responsible for the municipal units in charge of technical control in the audited municipalities, with the exception of Ciudad Real, considered the personal and/or material resources available for the technical control of some of the services insufficient.

In another of the recently approved reports, the Court of Accounts ensures that only 57% of local entities, excluding those of the Basque Country and Navarra, rendered their accounts within the established legal deadlines.

According to this report, the local entities with the lowest level of accountability were Andalusia with 35% and Castilla-La Mancha with 45%. In contrast are the local corporations of the Valencian Community, with 97%, those of Aragon with 94%, Madrid with 90%, Galicia with 88% and Catalonia with 86%.