Spain: EBRD shareholder profile

Spain is an important contributor to multi-donor funds such as the European Western Balkans Joint Fund, the EBRD's Sustainable Infrastructure Fund (SIF), the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean (SEMED) Multi-Donor Account, the West Bank and Gaza Multi-Donor Trust Fund and the High-Impact Partnership on Climate Action (HIPCA). In addition, significant contributions were made to the Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund. In 2023, Spain provided unfunded guarantees worth up to €100 million to support the Bank’s operations in Ukraine’s municipal sector, as well as for food security in Ukraine and other where the EBRD works that are affected by the war on Ukraine, among other contributions to other Funds.

Spanish banks are participating in the Trade Facilitation Programme, through which the EBRD guarantees the payment of trade finance instruments issued by banks in its countries of operations to foreign confirming banks. Since inception, the TFP has supported 785 export and import transactions for Spanish companies for a total € 399.06 million, for transactions which were initiated by banks in the EBRD countries of operation and confirmed by banks in both Spain and abroad. Twenty Spanish banks and branches of banks have joined the programme as Confirming Banks (all figures as of December 2023).

From 2018 to 2022, entities from Spain won 233 consultancy contracts worth €772,388,492.00.