Overview
- A notarial signing by Sílvia Paneque and Renfe president Álvaro Fernández Heredia created Rodalies de Catalunya SME SA with €2 million in initial capital.
- A nine-member board was appointed and convened immediately for its first meeting, with Paneque named chair.
- Òscar Playà, formerly the director of Barcelona’s Metro at TMB, was appointed CEO to focus on reliability, passenger information and incident response.
- Officials framed the entity as a governance tool to build a roadmap for improvements rather than a promise of quick fixes, with Paneque cautioning, “We cannot promise miracles.”
- The ownership split assigns 50.1% to Renfe and 49.9% to the Generalitat, reflecting a shared-control structure shaped by political agreements reached in 2023.