SUCCESS CASES

The regulatory sandbox of the Madrid City Council

The Challenge Addressed

The Madrid City Council has the challenge of boosting innovation, supporting the city's rich entrepreneurial and technological ecosystem; while continuing to be a city of great attractiveness for investment and a city open to people of all origins and to the innovations that will mark the future of all urban services.

Innovating in the urban environment is never easy, especially when it comes to testing disruptive technologies in areas such as autonomous vehicles, UAVs or Artificial Intelligence. Competition between large European cities and those of other continents is also extremely high and the supply of scientific-technical infrastructures and the facilities to carry out technological pilots are very wide in any of them.

But Madrid wanted to stand out from them and take some actions that will position it as what it is: a city committed to supporting innovators and that finds in its ecosystem of companies and centers the possibility of generating disruptive knowledge, improving public services and achieving economic growth with high quality employment over the next decade.

Novadays' Contribution

In September 2020, the City of Madrid hired Novadays to carry out the 'Strategic Design for the Creation of a Mobility Sandbox, and the development of a Roadmap for its implementation in the city of Madrid'. Under this contract, Novadays provided all its technical, legal and financial Capabilities to, together with the City Council officials and numerous other actors from both the public and private sector, analyze all existing alternatives, learn from best practices of other cities and make the strategic design of what would be the new regulatory sandbox of the city of Madrid.

After the conclusion of that contract, and having achieved the consensus of all stakeholders involved, the City of Madrid awarded Novadays a second contract for the 'Development of the Legal Instrument necessary for the creation of a controlled space for mobility testing in the city of Madrid', a contract that concluded with the drafting of the new Sandbox Ordinance that would later be approved by the Plenary of the City Council to implement the regulatory sandbox.

Impact and Results Obtained

The results of Novadays' work with the Madrid City Council were:

  • Strategic design for the creation of a Mobility Sandbox and the elaboration of a roadmap for its implementation in the city of Madrid, including:
  • Strategic and public policy analysis of innovation at national and European level.
  • Regulatory and permitting analysis in the urban road mobility and air mobility sectors.
  • Identification of the key internal and external agents for the creation of the sandbox.
  • Setting the strategy to achieve their commitment.
  • Definition of the alternatives and strategic decisions for the creation of the sandbox and the establishment of a roadmap for its implementation.
  • The drafting of a new municipal ordinance.
  • The preparation of the documentation for the public consultation process prior to the drafting of the new ordinance.
  • The preparation of the draft ordinance and the definition of questions for citizen debate on the Decide Madrid website.
  • Completion of the Regulatory Impact Analysis Report (MAIN) of the new standard.
  • Legal advice during the consultation and processing of the Ordinance until its approval by the Municipal Plenary.

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