The Table of the Parliament of Andalusia has decided that "the amendments to the articles and the partial amendments to the revenue and expenditure statement of the Draft Budget Law of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia" for 2027 "will be submitted, in general, through the electronic amendments tool provided to the parliamentary groups" by the Chamber itself. This application allows their "direct submission" to the Parliament's electronic register and was already used last year in an initial experience that concluded with "success".
The decision of the Table, dated November 11 and consulted by Europa Press after its publication in the official bulletin of the Parliament, "orders the submission and management by electronic means of the partial amendments to the Draft Budget Law of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia." The text recalls that in 2025 the processing of partial amendments to the Budget "by electronic means" was incorporated, thanks to "a new mass registration tool that allowed connecting the amendments application used" in the Chamber "for that purpose with the Parliament's electronic register".
As stated in the resolution, "this first experience of sending amendments by telematic means in the Parliament of Andalusia constituted a success and facilitated both the submission of amendments to the parliamentary groups and the management of those amendments by the Register and the services of the Chamber." That initial agreement "limited its scope" to the 2026 budget project, with a "limited time scope," which has now led the Table to "address" "the need to regulate the submission by telematic means of amendments" to the Budget for 2027.
"Given the intention to consolidate telematic means as the ordinary instrument for the submission of amendments," the new decision of November 11 "does not limit its scope to the Draft Budget Law of the Autonomous Community for the said year" 2027, but is adopted "with the purpose of regulating the submission of amendments by telematic means to the Draft Budget Law of the Autonomous Community with indefinite validity, which will therefore avoid the need to approve each year a similar decision for the same purpose".
The paper route is restricted to exceptional cases
With this decision, the Andalusian Chamber establishes that the submission of amendments by electronic means will be the "general modality", both for the articles and for the income and expenditure statement of the Budget of the Board. In this way, "the traditional modality of submitting amendments on paper is conditioned upon the occurrence of exceptional causes beyond the will of the Parliament of Andalusia and of the parliamentary groups, which could, in a fortuitous manner, prevent the effective use of the electronic means for this purpose".
The text specifies that the "submission on paper" of partial amendments to the Draft Budgets "will only be admitted, in an exceptional manner, in the event that causes arise beyond the will of a parliamentary group that prevent it from submitting the amendments through the indicated electronic means" or if there were "any technical circumstance that makes it impossible to submit such amendments through the aforementioned electronic means". In these situations, "the affected parliamentary group must justify the causes or circumstances that prevented it from submitting its amendments through electronic means".
The Board also emphasizes that, "with the system that is now being definitively implemented, it will be the tools for submitting amendments and for electronic registration that will be responsible for carrying out the numbering of the amendments, which will greatly facilitate the arduous management work that traditionally was involved in numbering the immense volume of amendments that is presented to the Budget Bill".
The agreement adds that, "with the system for electronically submitting amendments to the Budget Bill of the Autonomous Community, the Parliament of Andalusia joins, in the increasingly widespread practice in the legislative chambers of other autonomous communities, the dynamic of channeling the management of parliamentary initiatives through electronic means, in order to take advantage of the advantages offered by the use of such means in terms of ease of management, of advance preparation of the amendments being made available to the parliamentary groups, and of environmental sustainability".
The resolution specifies that this agreement will produce "effects" from the "day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Parliament of Andalusia", and it must be "communicated to the parliamentary groups".