Barcelona City Council

Barcelona City Council is launching this new call for applications for extraordinary subsidies for establishments in the city of Barcelona to install platforms for terraces, with the aim of contributing to economic and social recovery and the creation of a quality public space, helping to cover the cost of installing terraces on the pavement, in accordance with the conditions established in art. 28 (a) and 28 (b) of the Byelaw on Terraces.

This call is aimed exclusively at natural or legal persons who own catering establishments or similar who have been in possession of an exceptional license to install a terrace on the pavement, awarded within the framework of the decrees authorising exceptional terraces due to Covid-19, who have obtained a license for the installation of a terrace on the pavement due to Covid-19, who have renewed the above-mentioned license, which is valid during 2023, who have made the payment to acquire said license up to 15 September 2023, who have not been awarded the subsidy corresponding to the previous call in the 2022 financial year and who meet all the other conditions or requirements detailed in section 6 and 7 of this call.

The following expenses are deemed eligible for subsidies: 

• Expenses relating to the supply, transport and assembly of the pavement’s extension platform for the purposes of installing a terrace there in accordance with the four approved models.
• Duly justified technical expenses relating to redesign and processing costs (such as management costs, costs for the fees of the professional technical personnel involved, or similar).
• The cost of acquiring the mandatory platform which is a basic element of the pavement terrace, following the conditions established in the call.

Beneficiaries shall provide evidence of how the funds received have been applied by providing invoices for the expenditure made, and bank receipts for the payments, which shall be recorded together with the subsidy application, as established in section 10 of the call. Expenditure on acquiring an authorised pavement terrace should be made between 1 January 2022 and 15 September 2023 (both dates inclusive), in accordance with the terms established in section 8 of this call. The invoices must have been issued by 15 September 2023 at the latest (including on this day).

Application submission period: 15 July to 15 September, both dates inclusive.