This Infrastructure Governance Review of Spain was prepared by the Directorate for Public Governance (GOV), under the leadership of Marcos Bonturi. The report was drafted by Andrew Blazey, Deputy Head of the Public Management and Budgeting Division , Ana Maria Ruiz Rivadeneira and Lorena Cruz Serrano from the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division, and Lorenzo Casullo and Claire Leger from the Regulatory Policy Division. We thank Lauren Thwaites and Elisabetta Pilati from the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division for their help preparing the document for publication.
The OECD would like to thank the Government of Spain for its engagement and commitment during the review, in particular the Independent Authority for Spanish Fiscal Responsibility (Autoridad Independiente de Responsabilidad Fiscal - AIReF) and the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (Ministerio de Transporte, Movilidad y Agenda Urbana – MITMA) for their support and input during the review process.
The Review was implemented under the framework of the “Transport Infrastructure Spending Review” commissioned by the Spanish government to the Autoridad Independiente de Responsabilidad Fiscal (AIReF). The OECD would like to thank Mr. Carlos Cuerpo Caballero, Milagros Paniagua San Martín and Santiago Fernandez Muñoz from AIReF for the support and feedback provided during the preparation of the Review.
The Structural Reform Support Programme (SRSP) of the European Union (EU) provided funding and overall support for this Review, which was organised in co-ordination with Guilhem Blondy and Emilia Gargallo González from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM).
In carrying out the Review, the OECD benefited from extensive consultations and interviews with officials from the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, the Ministry of Finance, decentralised agencies and regulators, transport infrastructure administrators and operators in Spain, as well as members of the private sector, civil society, academics and independent experts. Comprehensive surveys and feedback were also provided by the Ministry of Public Works in Chile (Ministerio de Obras Públicas), the Transport Regulation Authority in France (Autorité de régulation des transports), the Transport Regulation Authority in Italy (Autorità di Regolazione dei Trasporti), the Railway Regulation Department from the Federal Ministry of Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in Germany (Bundesministeriums für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur), the Federal Network Agency in Germany (Bundesnetzagentur) and the United Kingdom’s Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA).
The OECD review team would like to thank all those who contributed to the evidence and insights to this review, in particular the individuals whom the review team met during the mission to Madrid in September 2019, as well as Mr. Matthew Vickerstaff and Mr. Josef Schimdgen, who joined the mission as international peers from the United Kingdom and Germany, respectively.
The report includes feedback from a consultation process co-ordinated by AIReF. The OECD is grateful to all the parties who prepared feedback on the report, in particular to Matthieu Cahen from the Infrastructure and Public Procurement Division of the OECD.