The work of this council focused on the balance sheet of the Agency's activities over the past year and the presentation of its action plan. The moral and financial report, prepared by the council, allows us to observe how important the achievements of the past year are and how ambitious and promising the perspectives are.

This report covers several priority areas, including the development of urban planning documents, studies relating to urban rehabilitation and urban and optical charters, urban planning studies and general studies, land and topographic studies, urban management and investment promotion, control in the field of urban planning, the processing of complaints and the monitoring of files with the authorities, as well as the modernisation and optimisation of the work tools of the Urban Agency of Agadir. Regarding this last axis, the Urban Agency of Agadir has initialled a range of agreements, registered within the framework of the cooperation established between the council of the Souss-Massa-Draâ region and the government of the Canary Islands, which essentially aims at improving the quality of the services provided by this agency. A series of projects has been carried out within this contractual framework, including that of the Agadir Site, which is a kind of digital topographic database, that of the modernisation of the Agency's technical services, the Cartograf Morocco project relating to the development of aerial photos and necessary topographic maps, that of the geographical portal Geoportal, that of the digitisation and standardisation of development plans, relating to the transformation of 34 plans which will pass from their initial form to a geographical information system, and that of the electronic monitoring of files, allowing for the appreciation of efficiency, transparency and quality in the use of information. The supervisory minister also stressed that this meeting coincided with the creation of an independent ministry, in charge of the Urban Planning and National Territory Development sector, which constitutes an important event, given the strategic importance that this sector has and the leading role it plays in supervising the development of the territory, so as to allow the sustainability of its resources and the establishment of synergy between its various components.

Objective: to allow it to contribute to economic, social and urban development. The importance of this meeting, he added, also lies in the fact that it coincides with the celebration of the Centenary of the first text of law relating to planning and urbanism. This makes it an opportune occasion for the evaluation and valorisation of the methodologies adopted and the establishment of renewable approaches to territorial development. It is also an opportunity for the valorisation of the role of professionals in the sector and specialists in the field and to boost the development of the territory, so as to allow it to meet new requirements and take up major challenges, such as sustainable urbanism, urban displacement and transport, climate change and the impact of new technology, in addition to the preservation of identity and original urban heritage and the monitoring and observation of the territory.