Accounts between the national and autonomous communities are going to get cleared up once the national government sees that the regional administrations are provided with some 8 billion euros in funds raised from a 6.2 billion euro national debt issue in July of 2010 in addition to more funds raised during the past two years and funds obtained from the regional government financing system. Communities are receiving funding from the latter source for the first time.
The national government is not allocating additional funds, but is reclassifying resources that are aligned to autonomous communities. While the national government should be able to free up 6.2 billion euros that come from a debt issue that took place in July 2010, it has already offered autonomous communities what they need by providing advances.
With this measure, the national government is contributing to the improvement of its autonomous communities' bookkeeping figures without increasing Spain's national debt, because the measure deals with a transfer of funds from administration to administration and does not impact the bottom line.