Portaria No. 633/2026 redistributes the EUR 1,387,000.03 cost of rebuilding hydraulic infrastructure on the Ponta Delgada Stream across 2026, 2027 and 2028.
The Regional Secretariat for Finance and the Regional Secretariat for Equipment and Infrastructure have redistributed the budget commitments of a procedure to rebuild hydraulic infrastructure on the Ponta Delgada Stream, known as Enxurros. The overall amount remains at EUR 1,387,000.03, but the expenditure will now be spread across the years 2026, 2027 and 2028, rather than being planned as it was in the previous ordinance. The decision is set out in Portaria No. 633/2026, published in the Official Journal on 3 November 2026.
Portaria No. 498/2026, of 8 September, published in the 8th Supplement to the Official Journal, Series I, No. 161, had planned the commitments for the procedure «RIBEIRO DA PONTA DELGADA (ENXURROS) - RECONSTRUÇÃO DE INFRAESTRUTURAS HIDRÁULICAS A MONTANTE DA ER 101», case No. 2/2026. The new ordinance neither increases nor reduces the total, it only defines the years in which public money may be committed. Hydraulic infrastructure is, in general terms, the structures that control the flow of water, such as channels, collectors and drainage works. ER 101 is Regional Road 101, and the reference indicates that the intervention takes place upstream of this road.
The three amounts add up to EUR 1,387,000.03, that is, one million, three hundred and eighty-seven thousand euros and three cents. Each annual amount may be increased by the balance determined in the previous year. The ordinance further provides that VAT at the legal rate in force is added to these values.
About 90% of the total, more precisely EUR 1,256,727.14, falls in 2027, meaning that most of the expenditure will only be executed in the year after the current one.
The expenditure planned for 2026 is covered by the 2026 Regional Budget of Madeira, under Secretariat 50, Chapter 50, Division 02, Subdivision 02, Programme 053, Measure 028, Project 53134, with economic classification 07.01.04, item S0, sub-item 00, funding sources 384 and 4MC, and functional classification 062. For 2027 and 2028, the ordinance provides that the funds are to be entered in the proposed regional budgets for those years. In other words, the execution of these amounts depends on the approval of future budgets.
The ordinance is a regional government instrument, signed on 9 November 2026 by the Regional Secretary for Finance, Duarte Nuno Nunes de Freitas, and the Regional Secretary for Equipment and Infrastructure, Pedro Alexandre Fagundes de Freitas Rodrigues. It is based on Article 22 of Decree-Law No. 197/99, of 8 June, which regulates the assumption of commitments extending over more than one fiscal year. The text notes that this decree-law is in force under the terms defined by subsequent legislation, without detailing those amendments.
The ordinance enters into force on the working day following its publication, that is, on 12 November 2026.
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