Overview

• The Royal Decree defines each region’s ordinary reception capacity and activates extraordinary measures when territories reach at least triple that level, with enforcement tools that include recourse to police and prosecutors.
• Government planning envisages relocating up to 3,975 minors over a year after BOE publication, with the State covering transfers and at least the first three months of reception and allocating 100 million euros to the autonomous communities.
• Despite an initial 28 August target, sources cited by ABC report the first transfers will be pushed back by at least a month, with formal contingency requests due within three days and ministerial decisions within five.
• Canary Islands authorities report 5,017 minors in 85 centers and continued arrivals, including 106 in one day, and they renew calls for a national emergency to speed equitable redistribution.
• The Balearic Government argues it cannot take the 49 minors assigned given 56 authorized places and about 680 already under tutela, plans to seek a precautionary suspension from the Supreme Court, and leaves open requesting contingency status.