21st century: new future challenges This is a period for developing our presence abroad - operating in a dozen countries spanning the majority of the continents - and of diversification, with more than 40 companies. This leads to a major restructuring of the consolidated Group, organising it into divisions by products and services, to adapt it to the market and offer specific responses to each sub sector within: the railway sector, construction (building construction and civil works), engineering, the environment, the property sector, concessions and agricultural activity, amongst others. In 2003.  The GRUPO COMSA generates more than 2,000 direct jobs. 2004 Enlargement of the European Union with the membership of ten new countries. 2001 Declared the International Year of Volunteers 2002 Gaudí Year 2003 Pedro Almodóvar won his second Oscar 2005 Death of Pope John Paul II. Benedict XVI succeeds him.