This top rating for Navarre (having been upgraded from AA+ to AAA) reflects "a solid and stable budget performance, a high level of fiscal autonomy thanks to its special tax regime, it very low – and falling – level of relative debt, and a very comfortable cash-flow position", according to the international credit rating agency.

The new company, based in Noáin, has come about as the result of the development of the CIMA-Digna Project.

The President of the Government of Navarre, Miguel Sanz, the Regional Minister for Industry, José Javier Armendáriz, and the Deputy Director of the public company Sodena, Javier Berazaluce, paid a visit to Brookhaven National Laboratory, located about 100 kilometres from New York.