Within the scope of the decentralization of competences for local authorities and for inter-municipal entities, the list of unused public real estate assets was published.
In the dispatch of the Diário da República, signed by the Secretaries of State for the Treasury and Decentralization and Local Administration and prepared by public bodies with the management in charge of properties within that scope, they drew up a list containing the respective identification.
The list of unused public real estate assets (https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/151865100) integrates the dispatch of the members of the Government responsible for the areas of finance and local authorities, being updated every six months and, where among others, the building located at Rua da Lavoura, composed of warehouses and silos, with an area 1502 m2 and managed by the Ministry of Finance / Directorate-General for Treasury and Finance.
When the referred building passes to the aegis of the municipality it can rent, assign or carry out real estate transactions that grant rights of use to third parties, provided for in the Transfer Agreement. The use of the property by third parties may result in revenue for the municipality.
In July 2020 as part of a work on the future of the old buildings of “Moinhos de Santa Iriaâ€, it was said that about 300 meters there are other silos, belonging to the Directorate-General for Heritage, that once belonged to the State through the Public Company for the Supply of Cereals (EPAC) and who are also abandoned, with broken doors and access to all kinds of people.
Under the Law 50/2018, that defines the decentralization of competences, the autarchy could “inherit†the space, and the Mayor of Beja justified that: “They are too many silos and we don’t dedicate them to agricultureâ€, concluded Paulo Arsenio.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
