Jerez it also wants to host the Spanish Space Agency. With its candidacy, formally presented to the Ministry of Territorial Policies, four Andalusian cities are aspiring to have the headquarters of this body —to which 21 municipalities from all over the country have applied—, or of the Spanish Agency for the supervision of Artificial Intelligence – fourteen nominations throughout Spain.
In addition to Jerez, Huelva, Seville and Granada are competing to host one of the two venues. Admission to the processing of these candidates is subject to verification by the consultative commission of possession of the requisites established for this purpose, as indicated by the Government in a note.
The Ministry of Land Affairs believes that the procedure to determine the location of the new public state agencies “has been a success and has been very well received”, receiving a total of 35 applications for the two agencies from fourteen autonomous communities.
In the case of the Spanish Space Agency, Huelva, Jerez and Seville compete with 18 other candidates: Cabanillas del Campo (Guadalajara), Cebreros (Ávila), Ciudad Real (Ciudad Real), Elche (Alicante/Alacant), Estella-Lizarra (Navarre ), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria/Agüimes/San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Las Palmas), León (León), Ourense (Ourense), Palencia (Palencia), Puerto del Rosario (Las Palmas ) , Puertollano (Ciudad Real), San Javier (Murcia), Tenerife Island (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), Teruel (Teruel), Tres Cantos (Madrid), Zamudio (Vizcaya) and Yebes (Guadalajara).
The Spanish Space Agency, with a component dedicated to national security, will make it possible to coordinate national space activities and policies, as well as Spain’s participation in international programs in this field. The space sector provides essential services in the field of communications, earth observation, navigation, security, the fight against climate change or the monitoring of phenomena such as droughts or fires.
In the case of the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence, Jerez and Granada will compete together with A Coruña (A Coruña), Alicante (Alicante/Alacant), Barcelona (Barcelona), Gijón (Asturias), Guadalajara (Guadalajara), Leganés (Madrid), Ourense (Ourense), Palma (Balearic Islands), Salamanca (Salamanca), Tenerife Island (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), Segovia (Segovia) and Zaragoza (Zaragoza).
The State Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence will enjoy its own autonomy, independence, assets and administrative powers and will be essential to guarantee compliance with the European legislation on Artificial Intelligence (AI), as indicated by the Government.
The Agency’s main mission is to minimize the risks that AI can pose in areas such as people’s safety, privacy and health, as well as other fundamental rights.
Spain will become the first EU country with a state agency for the supervision of artificial intelligence (AI), before the entry into force of the future European regulation on AI, which establishes the need for member states to have a supervisory authority on the matter.
The Spanish Agency for the Supervision of Artificial Intelligence is part of the Digital Spain Agenda 2026, in the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence, both promoted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, through its Secretary of State for Digitization and artificial intelligence, as well as in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
