Murcia City Council has welcomed the Plan of Relaxation of certain financial terms of loans signed with the Official Credit Institute (ICO) for payment to suppliers, approved by the Government Commission for Economic Affairs April 24.
As explained by the Councillor of Finance, Isabel Martinez Conesa, last May were published in the BOE vary ways by which municipalities could obtain greater maturity or a reduction in the interest rate, provided they met a certain conditions.
Murcia City Council meets the necessary requirements to apply greater reduction in the interest rate, which is 1.4 points conditions, pointed Martínez Conesa, who has also said that the current rate of 5.48 percent would drop to 4 percent , obtaining a saving estimated at about USD 2,286,746.18.
Remember that plenary Corporation last May agreed to request the Ministry of Finance and Public Administration with a high interest rate reduction at 140 basis points.
For it has taken steps to integrate into state electronic billing platform measures and incorporated into the program 'Embark 3', which allows management by Internet permits the three administrations for the opening and commissioning activities through a flexible and rapid procedure similar to the procedure of prior notification, as implemented in the city of Murcia.
Embark on 3 Project
The Governing Board of the City of Murcia has given the green light to the project to join the electronic platform 'Embark 3', a portal that aims to reduce administrative burdens for start of business and other related communications entrepreneurs and government at the local level.
It is a tool to reduce bureaucracy, taking advantage of new technologies and invigorate entrepreneurship.
This portal will streamline the creation and opening of businesses by allowing procedures are performed simultaneously with different administrations.
The project 'Embark 3' fail collaboration between administrations, new technologies and the rules of responsible statements, replacing licenses provided by a system of verification.
It is an electronic processing system for the establishment and implementation of a business.
Electronic Invoicing Platform - FACE
FACE is the General Invoice Entry Point of the General State Administration.
Allows the transfer of invoices in electronic format to those agencies and administrations who accept previously are discharged from the system.
Adherence to this platform is a complement to the new Program Management Accountant eGovernment that is being launched in the city of Murcia.
This program, which starts operating in July, includes the use of a module for processing, approval and payment of electronic invoices FACE support, which will allow prompt payment to suppliers Hall, mostly SMEs, getting to meet the priority for the City Council to reduce the average payment period.
Isabel Martinez Conesa has remarked that "all these new tools join those already implemented by the city of Murcia to finding an even closer and more accessible, more flexible, cheaper for users Administration and Management, more available, more transparent and also safer, with many more options. "
Among them, as the newly created Virtual Office AMT, a very useful tool that allows multiple users to administrative tasks quickly and easily, thus benefiting from the advantages offered by this online office through which movements are avoided to the council, without abandoning the traditional channels such as face or telephone, but complementing these new.
All procedures offer significant advantages for both the Administration and the citizen, since distances are reduced and eliminated the need to travel, saves both for users and for the City Council, as it avoids them having to photocopy or print scanned documents.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia