| SE strategy / action plan 1.2.1 S1100S2100S367S4100S567 Criteria and evidence- S1 · Status: 100 (adopted and in force on 31 Dec 2025)
The Estrategia Española de Economía Social 2023-2027 was adopted by the Council of Ministers and published in the BOE on 1 Jun 2023; it runs to 2027: 'adopted and in force on 31 Dec 2025'. · source 1 - S2 · Dedication: 100 (dedicated national SE strategy or action plan)
A stand-alone national social economy strategy (four axes, 18 lines of action): 'dedicated national SE strategy or action plan (adopted)'. · source 1 - S3 · Operational content: 67 (measures with named responsible bodies)
The mid-term evaluation shows actions with named responsible bodies (Ministry of Labour and Social Economy, ICEX, AECID, Ministries of Industry and Foreign Affairs) and indicators with intermediate and final targets ('se han cumplido un 45% de los objetivos intermedios'); no budget for the strategy or its measures was found: 'measures with named responsible bodies' (budget missing for 100). · source 1 - S4 · Monitoring: 100 (progress or evaluation report published in 2021–2025)
The ministry's Directorate-General for the Social Economy issued an Informe de Evaluación Intermedia (version 1, November 2025) measuring progress against indicators: 'progress or evaluation report published in the period'. · source 1 - S5 · Participation of SE organisations: 67 (SE organisations named as members of the drafting group or of the monitoring body)
CEPES is a named member (titular and substitute) of the Comité Técnico de Seguimiento constituted on 28 Oct 2025 within the Consejo para el Fomento de la Economía Social; in drafting, the sector was only 'consulted ... through meetings and information requests': 'SE organisations named as members ... of the monitoring body' (not of a drafting group). · source 1
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| Institutional structure & dialogue 1.2.2 I1100I2100I3100I4100 Criteria and evidence- I1 · Lead responsibility: 100 (a dedicated unit, directorate or agency for SE)
The Ministry of Labour and Social Economy has a Secretaría de Estado de Economía Social (issuer of the 2025 grant call) and a Dirección General de la Economía Social y de la Responsabilidad Social de las Empresas: 'a dedicated unit, directorate or agency for SE'. · source 1 - I2 · Breadth of mandate: 100 (the social economy / SE broadly)
The mandate covers the social economy as defined by Ley 5/2011 (cooperatives, mutual societies, labour companies, insertion companies, special employment centres, fishermen's guilds, associations and foundations): 'the social economy / SE broadly'. · source 1 - I3 · Consultative body with SE organisations: 100 (set up and met in 2024–2025 (dated record))
The Consejo para el Fomento de la Economía Social (Ley 5/2011) is the consultative body with sector representatives; its Pleno met and constituted the strategy's technical monitoring committee on 28 Oct 2025: 'set up and met in 2024-2025 (dated record)'. · source 1 - I4 · Inter-ministerial coordination: 100 (standing mechanism that met in 2024–2025)
The Comité Técnico de Seguimiento of the strategy brings together about ten ministries (Industry and Tourism, Equality, Education, Ecological Transition, etc.) under a Plan de Coordinación led by the Ministry of Labour; it was constituted on 28 Oct 2025 and ministries were asked to report actions on 24 Jul 2025: 'standing mechanism that met in 2024-2025'. · source 1
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| Social clauses in public procurement 2.3.2 P1100P2100P3100P433 Criteria and evidence- P1 · Legal basis: 100 (reservation or preference explicitly for SE/SSE entities (e.g. Directive 2014/24 Art. 77 transposed, a national SSE quota))
Besides DA 4ª LCSP (reservation to Centros Especiales de Empleo de iniciativa social and empresas de inserción), DA 48ª reserves certain social, cultural and health service contracts to specified organisations (Directive 2014/24 Art. 77), as listed in the OIReScon report: 'reservation or preference explicitly for SE/SSE entities (e.g. Directive 2014/24 Art. 77 transposed)'. · source 1 - P2 · National policy push: 100 (national plan or rule with a target or quota for social clauses or the SE share)
DA 4ª LCSP requires the Council of Ministers and regional and local bodies to fix 'porcentajes mínimos de reserva' for contracts reserved to social-initiative special employment centres and insertion companies; OIReScon reviews the 'Acuerdos de fijación de porcentajes de reserva': 'national plan or rule with a target or quota for ... the SE share'. · source 1 - P3 · Evidence of use: 100 (national figures for two or more years)
OIReScon publishes annual special supervision reports on strategic procurement (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 editions) with tables on 'Contratos reservados e importe' and the percentage of reserved contracts: 'national figures published for two or more years'. · source 1 - P4 · Capacity support: 33 (donor- or project-based training only)
Training on social clauses and reserved contracts in 2021-2025 was project-based: the EU-funded WeBuySocialEU sessions (DG GROW/EISMEA; AEIDL with Diesis, ICLEI, REVES; supported by CEPES) for public-authority staff and social economy entities in Barcelona (19 Sep 2024) and Madrid (2 Oct 2024); OIReScon only took part in events run by others (e.g. GIZATEA workshop on DA 4ª, 21 Nov 2024) and its 42 consultations in 2024 did not concern social clauses; the state Junta Consultiva opinion on reserved framework agreements is dated 2026: 'donor- or project-based training only'. · source 1
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| Official SE definition 3.1 D1100D2100 Criteria and evidence- D1 · Where defined: 100 (in law)
Ley 5/2011 de Economía Social defines the social economy: 'in law'. · source 1 - D2 · Content (social aim; participatory governance; limits on profit distribution): 100 (all three)
Art. 4 sets the guiding principles: primacy of people and the social aim over capital; autonomous, transparent, democratic and participatory management; results applied mainly according to work or activity, or to the social aim, not to capital: 'all three'. (article text known, not re-opened in this round) · source 1
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Legal recognition of SEs 3.2.1 · level 2 of 3Ley 5/2011, de 29 de marzo, de Economía Social · sources 1 2 3 4L1100L2100L3100L40L5100 Criteria and evidence- L1 · Adoption stage: 100 (in force)
- L2 · Scope: 100 (general: SE broadly, including a status open to several legal forms or any purpose)
- L3 · Implementing rules: 100 (all adopted, or none required)
The Consejo para el Fomento de la Economía Social (art. 13) was re-regulated by Real Decreto 117/2021, de 23 de febrero (amending RD 219/2001), which discharges the Law's final provision on the Council. No other required regulation identified (the 2024 bill's explanatory memorandum names only the Catálogo as outstanding). - L4 · Status or register: 0 (foreseen with no entity recognised, or law not in force)
No individual status; the Law's recognition instrument, the Catálogo de entidades de economía social (art. 6), was never drawn up: 'twelve years after its approval still pending' (bill memorandum, Oct 2024). - L5 · Bodies foreseen by the law: 100 (set up)
Consejo para el Fomento de la Economía Social (art. 13; RD 219/2001 as amended by RD 117/2021) set up and reactivated in 2021; 2024-2025 meetings not confirmed from a primary source.
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| SE support ecosystem 4.3.6 E167E267E333E467E5100 Criteria and evidence- E1 · National programme: 67 (national SME/start-up programme with an SE strand, or a government-run SE programme funded mainly by donors)
The Ministry's Plan Integral de Impulso a la Economía Social (Orden TES/869/2023; 2025 call of 27 Dec 2024) funds national-scope programmes for creating and consolidating SE entities (INICIATIVA_ES), conversions to worker ownership (TRANSFORMA_ES), digitalisation and alliances, financed by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (C23 I6): 'a government-run SE programme funded mainly by donors' (EU funds); no nationally funded SE support network was found. · source 1 - E2 · Territorial coverage: 67 (several regions)
Projects must have national scope and run in at least two autonomous communities, but there is no national network of SE support centres (support centres are regional or municipal): 'several regions'. · source 1 - E3 · Public funding of support: 33 (mainly donor or EU funded)
The 2025 call 'se financia con cargo al Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia' (RRF): 'mainly donor or EU funded'. · source 1 - E4 · Continuity: 67 (two to four years)
The bases date from July 2023 (Orden TES/869/2023), with calls in 2023-2024 and 2025: about two and a half years to 31 Dec 2025, 'two to four years'. · source 1 - E5 · Range of services: 100 (three or more)
The 2025 call of the Plan Integral (Orden of 27 Dec 2024, EUR 39.26 m) funds advice and accompaniment for converting firms into worker cooperatives or labour companies (TRANSFORMA_ES), business plans and help with administrative and registration procedures for new SE entities (INICIATIVA_ES), and value chains, commercialisation between entities and networks or reference centres for project incubation (ALIANZAS_ES): legal/registration advice, incubation and market access, 'three or more'. · source 1
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| EU funds mobilised for SE 5.1.1 F1100F2100F3100F4100 Criteria and evidence- F1 · Programming: 100 (a dedicated SE measure or priority with an allocated budget)
The Recovery Plan includes the PERTE de Economía Social y de los Cuidados, with Component 23 Investment 6 financing the Plan Integral de Impulso a la Economía Social (EUR 39.3 m in the 2025 call alone): 'a dedicated SE measure or priority with an allocated budget'. · source 1 - F2 · Calls and instruments: 100 (recurring dedicated calls, or an EU-funded financial instrument for SE)
Competitive calls dedicated to the social economy were issued under Orden TES/869/2023 in 2023, 2024-2025 (award order 18 Jun 2025) and 2025: 'recurring dedicated calls'. · source 1 - F3 · Channel: 100 (managed by national or regional authorities as part of national SE policy)
The calls are issued and awarded by the Ministry of Labour and Social Economy within its PERTE and strategy: 'managed by national or regional authorities as part of national SE policy'. · source 1 - F4 · Evidence of take-up: 100 (monitoring data on SE beneficiaries or amounts published)
The ministry publishes award resolutions with beneficiaries and amounts (PIIES 2024-2025, 18 Jun 2025) and a PERTE situation report; press reports cite 4,461 entities reached: 'monitoring data on SE beneficiaries or amounts published'. · source 1
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| Dedicated national funding 5.2.2 N1100N233N3100N433 Criteria and evidence- N1 · Dedicated line: 100 (dedicated line for SE broadly)
Orden TES/889/2024 sets bases for state-budget grants 'para el fomento de la economía social' (training, dissemination, running costs of representative bodies, strategy measures); the 2025 call (27 May 2025) has EUR 7.56 m from programme 241N: 'dedicated line for SE broadly'. · source 1 - N2 · Instrument types: 33 (one type)
The order 'covers only grants (subvenciones)': 'one type'. · source 1 - N3 · Continuity: 100 (five years or more)
State-budget calls (programme 241N) with a line specific to the social economy were issued every year: 2021 (Resolution of 15 Jul 2021, Orden ESS/739/2017: line D EUR 3 m for measures of the Estrategia Española de Economía Social, plus operating costs of cooperative, labour-company and other SE bodies), 2022 (6 Apr 2022, EUR 10.44 m in total), 2023 (20 Apr 2023, EUR 3 m strategy line), and 2024 and 2025 under Orden TES/889/2024 (calls of 18 Sep 2024 and 27 May 2025; the ministry's consultation of 3 Dec 2025 confirms both): 'five years or more'. · source 1 - N4 · Execution: 33 (budgeted or announced only)
Calls with budgets by budget item are published for 2024 (EUR 7.94 m) and 2025 (EUR 7.56 m), but no award resolution or list of beneficiaries of the national line was found (the BOE notices found concern a CONACEE appeal against the order and an RRF-funded direct grant to CEPES, which belongs to 5.1.1): 'budgeted or announced only'. · source 1
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