The Government of Spain and the Generalitat of Catalonia have agreed this Tuesday to set the transfer for the early retirement of Mossos d'Esquadra agents for 2022 at 46 million euros. The agreement has been signed within the framework of the Mixed Commission of State-Generalitat Economic and Fiscal Affairs by a specific group created to deal with this specific matter.

As reported by the Generalitat in a statement, the Government will transfer to the Generalitat the amount corresponding to the financing of the early retirement of Mossos d'Esquadra agents, which by 2022 will be 46 million euros. In this way, the Generalitat has recalled, the economic conditions of the early retirement of the Mossos are equated with the State Security Forces and Corps.

The agreement of the working group provides for an initial transfer of 46 million euros that will be increased depending on the real evolution of the Mossos d'Esquadra troops and that will be set by the Generalitat each year. The 46 million for 2022 will be transferred in three payments before the end of this year and from next year it will be paid through four equal advances that will be settled in the month of March of the following year.

In November 2021, the Government agreed for the 2022 budgets with ERC, for the Mossos, and with Bildu, for the Ertzaintza, to assume the cost of the early retirement of the agents of these two regional police forces. A year earlier, in 2020, the Ministry of the Interior of the Generalitat agreed with the unions of the Catalan regional police that the agents could retire from the age of 59 as of the following year.