€1.45m in draft budget for 112 emergency centre and flood‑risk maps

The government’s 2026 draft budget allocates €1,454,202.50 to advance measures required by the qualified Civil Protection Law, including €1,270,000 for development of the new 112 National Emergency Centre (CNE) and €184,202.50 to complete flood‑risk mapping. All budget lines remain subject to approval by the General Council.

The €1.27 million package covers preparatory and execution tasks for the 112‑CNE: project management, adaptation and equipping of operational premises, installation of communications infrastructure (including a dedicated local area network and IP telephony), procurement of IT hardware and specialised furniture, training for call handlers, and public information campaigns. The plan also funds deployment of a population‑warning system to deliver mass alerts to mobile phones; reported annual maintenance for the alert platform is about €137,000.

The government has signed two collaboration agreements with Andorra Telecom. One cedes the first floor of the Nexus building in Santa Coloma to host the CNE, at a reported lease cost of just over €5,000 per month (about €70,000 a year). The second covers implementation of a mobile‑network‑based mass‑alert platform. Andorra Telecom will provide a provisional SMS‑based alerting solution until the full platform is ready.

Authorities expect the mass‑alert system to be fully operational by the end of 2026, while the Nexus‑based CNE is scheduled to enter service in early 2027 once parts of Andorra Telecom’s equipment are relocated to the new Node building now under construction. Officials stress the projects’ technical complexity and external dependencies, noting that rollout will be phased and some measures will extend beyond the 2026 financial year.

Work on flood‑risk mapping continues under existing contracts. Deliverables to date include inventories and high‑resolution topographic and hydrological models; final inundation maps are being produced in phases. An initial tranche covering areas hit hardest by the 1982 floods — Encamp, Escaldes‑Engordany and Andorra la Vella — was due for delivery in late 2025, with further map deliveries expected into early 2026. The €184,202.50 allocation will be used to complete these maps, prepare operational documentation and organise a phased rollout of more complex products.

Protecció Civil has said several mapping tasks must be outsourced to specialised firms. Because of current budgetary constraints, no new permanent posts are planned for 2026 and additional hiring is not expected before 2027. The director of Protecció Civil has indicated plans to submit the national territorial plan and several special emergency plans — including a snow plan and a seismic emergency plan — together with their associated risk maps to the National Civil Protection Commission at a meeting planned for late November; officials have said the aim is to approve ten emergency plans and three risk maps in the near term.

Opposition figures have criticised the timetable as delayed, noting the Civil Protection Law gave the executive up to three years from its 2022 entry into force to centralise emergency calls under 112 and arguing more action is needed now. The government acknowledges delays and attributes them to technical complexity and the need for phased implementation. It presents the investments as a strategic step toward a more modern, coordinated civil‑protection system while accepting that full deployment will require additional time.