The Community of Madrid has accumulated 738 regulatory simplification measures and is preparing a law to reduce the bureaucratic burden on citizens and businesses. Councillor Rocío Albert has also detailed an Industrial Plan 2026-2030 with a budget of 850 million.
The Community of Madrid has implemented 738 measures of regulatory simplification and is finalising a new law to reduce the bureaucratic burden faced by citizens and businesses, as detailed by the Councillor for Economy, Finance and Employment, Rocío Albert, in an informational meeting with the media, information collected by lavozmadrid.es.
The future regulation will include the compensation rule: each new administrative burden imposed on a business must be offset by the elimination of another of equivalent cost. It will also incorporate expiration clauses for organisational regulations, in order to prevent rules that are no longer useful from being maintained out of inertia.
The new regulatory obligations will only come into force on two dates each year: 2 January and 1 July. The aim is to provide predictability to businesses, especially SMEs, and to avoid rushed adaptations to scattered changes, following the British model.
The law will strengthen the Investment Accelerator, with preferential processing and deadlines reduced by half for projects of special interest. It will also regulate controlled testing environments, where innovators can experiment under supervision in areas that current regulations do not yet cover, such as digitalisation, tourism, innovative commerce, and health technologies.
The Community structures its industry into five specialised districts: the North, focused on pharma-biotech, life sciences, and audiovisual; the East, as a logistics and automotive hub in the Henares Corridor; the South, in advanced industry, aeronautics, and defence; the West, in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence; and the Capital, in advanced services and digitalisation.
Collaboration with local councils, with contacts already initiated, will allow companies to obtain advantages for establishing or growing in these corridors, such as local tax incentives, support for internationalisation, and assistance with technology transfer.
The regional government will allocate 850 million euros to the Industrial Plan 2026-2030, which is 65% more than the previous budget. The plan is structured around six axes and 85 measures, and includes 110 million in aid for SMEs and 66.5 million for collaborative projects between companies, universities, and research centres.
50 million is reserved to incorporate artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and robotics into the productive fabric. The creation of a 6G Laboratory, an Industry and Innovation Node in Defence, Security, and Dual Technologies, and an investment of 16 million for the drone ecosystem is planned.
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