Spain: modified approach
(31 March 2020)
Here is more information on the Spanish companies, which are considered essential and therefore allowed to continue their business activities:
First necessity
- Commercial retail shops for food, beverages, products and supplies
- Pet food
- Trading via internet, telephone or correspondence
- Hygienic products
Health
- Pharmaceutical companies
- Health Centres: the elderly, minors, dependants or persons with disabilities. People working in companies, R&D and biotechnology centres linked to COVID-19
- Veterinary centres or clinics
- Optical and orthopaedic products
- Services in the chain of production and distribution of goods
- Sanitary technology
- Medical equipment
- Protective equipment
- Sanitary hospital equipment
- Funeral services and other related activities
- Protection and care of victims of gender violence
- Cleaning, maintenance, urgent repairs in case of breakdowns and surveillance services
Transport
- Car fuel
- Home delivery services can only be provided (applied to restaurants)
- Carriage of goods and passengers throughout the national territory
- Transit at points of entry or border inspection posts at ports or airports: It will be given a high priority for products initially needed.
Security & legal
- Custodial institutions
- Civil protection
- Maritime rescue
- Rescue and fire prevention and control
- Safety of mines
- Traffic and road safety
- Maintenance of the material and equipment of the armed forces
- Law firms and legal consultancies
- Lawyers
- Social graduates
- Translators
- Interpreters
- Services in notaries and registers
- Psychologists
- Reception centres for refugees and temporary accommodation centres for immigrants and public bodies of private management
- The operator designated by the State to provide the universal postal service
Finances
- Banking and insurance companies
- Investment companies
- Activities of payment infrastructures
- Financial markets
Other services
- Telecommunications and audiovisual companies
- Media and press agencies
- Technological and telecommunication equipment
- Provision of meteorological forecasting and observation services
- Press and stationery
- Tobacconists
- Dry cleaners, laundries
- Professional practice of hairdressers at home
- Supply of electrical energy, products based on oil and natural gas
- Critical operators of essential services
- Maintenance of the productive activities of the processing industry offering the supplies Water supply, purification, conduction, purification and remediation