2020 was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. The food markets, as a basic supply service, remained open, with all the conditions of prevention and safety in order to ensure the supply of fresh products for the citizens
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investment in COVID-19 measures
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emergency equipment
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screens for control access
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homes delivery services
Operational functioning and prevention and safety measures
- Remote work
- Coordination protocol, information and rapid response
- Deployment of the structure of human resources of the IMMB
- Coordination and resolution of incidents
- Homes delivery services
- Online sales
Prevention and safety services and supplies
- Providing PPEs to traders
- Coordination with traders’ associations for disinfection
- Monitoring rubbish collection and cleaning of containers and compactors
- 75 auxiliary staff to control access on Fridays and Saturdays complemented
- Infrastructures of control of accesses
Communication
- Special signage in the markets
- Communication of the different services that the markets offer the citizens
- Collaboration with audiovisual and digital media, and inclusion of information from the markets in the different channels provided, in order to inform the public
- Communication campaign
- Campaign to foster local consumption
Support and reactivation measures in the markets
- Deferral and readjustment plan of the fees and specific treatment of the non-food markets.
- Call for grants for general expenses and commercial recovery measures.
- Collaboration agreement with the Federation of Municipal Markets (FEMM).
- Advice and assessment.
- Support for surveillance and cleaning services.
- Specific reactivation plans for non-food markets.
- Exemptions, deferrals and rebates of fees.
Investment in COVID-19 measures
Total: 4,114,414 €
- 1. Investment in computer equipment
2. Investment in face masks, gloves and sanitiser
3. Hiring of auxiliary staff for control of accesses
4. Sensors and screens for control of accesses
5. Signage of the markets
6. Non-recovered payments for cleaning and surveillance services
7. Reinforcing the online sales
8. Subsidies
9. Plans for reactivation of non-food markets
10. Tax exemptions in the non-food markets
11. Compensation for limitations in the execution of public works and service contracts (59 files suspended – compensation foreseen for 21)