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The Constructors Gremi d'Obres de Barcelona i Comarques signed the National Pact for housing
10/10/2007
October 10, 2007
Before the signing of the new national housing 2007-2016, the Constructors Gremi d'Obres de Barcelona i Comarques considers that this is a strategic starting point necessary to know what policy to follow, but also points out that the fact that is included in a law still in process at the Regional Chamber can modify it and not get to meet the initial expectations. Néstor Turró, President of the Gremi of Constructors of Barcelona and Comarques, "must be acknowledged the effort from the Generalitat to make according to the majority of representatives of the sector, some of them with very conflicting interests, but we must wait for what will be the law that will develop".
The Pact was signed on 8 October in the Palau de la Generalitat by 34 most relevant institutions of the sector and it was also initialled by the President of the Generalitat, José Montilla, the absence of CiU and PPC. The agreement intended for the period 2007-2016 improve access to housing of quality at all social levels regardless of income and with special attention to older people, young people and all those with some degree of dependency. The agreement also bet by a House of quality both as restored new and this has benefited from the advice of the Guild of builders of works of Barcelona and region which has actively participated in some of the 176 measures such as the new plan. Specifically the Generalitat, as says the measure 129, is committed to supporting technical and economically voluntary registration of construction companies (recorded) is a project driven entirely by the Gremi.
On the other hand, the Guild has also actively participated in the annex II of the Covenant defending measures of taxation reduced value added tax for the works of reform, reconstruction or rehabilitation of buildings. He has also participated in all the measures of the new plan that are related to the empowerment and consolidation of the plan of rehabilitation of housing; the introduction of criteria of energy efficiency in building and strengthening of the mechanisms of control of the quality of the building.
Group photo after the signing of the National Pact
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