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The House of Representatives has declared an "event of exceptional public interest" the Mobile World Congress, the Congress that for six years, makes global capital Barcelona in mobile telephony. An amendment agreed by PSOE and CiU allow companies attending the conference get a tax credit of 15% for investments in advertising related to it.

The statement also possible to set an incentive of 25% for individuals and 35% for firms to make donations to the consortium organizing the event, to be eligible for the tax treatment of non-profit entities and tax incentives for patronage.

The move is a boost for the show, one of the most important of those held in the exhibition space of the Catalan capital. Each year, go to the Mobile World Congress marks around 1,400 exhibitors and nearly 60,000 visitors from 200 countries. The economic impact of the room also has wielded as an argument in favor of the measure by the developers, considering that the event will generate between 2012 and 2018 revenues of approximately 3,450 million euros for Barcelona, ​​by way of accommodation, catering and transport .

The statement, which is included in the law of Collective Investment Institutions, shall also be collected by the State Budget 2012, despite the call for general elections on November 20 will require extended public accounts this year