Transfer of 'Costas' to Canaries

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Noticias:

The Council of Ministers approves the "historic" transfer of Costas to the Canary Islands



The Canary Islands managed yesterday to take a decisive step so that their future depends on what is decided in the Islands when a Royal Decree was approved in the Council of Ministers by which functions and services of the General State Administration (AGE) are transferred to the Autonomous Community in matters of coastal planning and management. Or, what is the same, at last and after a wait that dates back to 1982, on the coasts of the Archipelago will now decide the island authorities and not from Madrid, a trivial matter given the characteristics of this territory, which has no less than 1,500 kilometers of coastline.

 

The rule approved by the Government of Spain, which comes after the agreement reached by the Joint Transfer Commission of July 27, 2022, contemplates that said transfer of functions and services will be effective on January 1, 2023, as agreed by both administrations, but there is no going back and hence the historical nature of the date, that last night the president of the Canary Islands, Ángel Víctor Torres, recognized as such in statements to DIARIO DE AVISOS.

 

"This is an old aspiration," said the Aruquense politician. "now officially achieved for the Canary Islands, and that it is the first milestone of the new Statute of Autonomy. It deserves to put it in value , he stressed - because the Balearic Islands, which has recognized the competences in Costas since 2007 has not been able to close the issue with the Government of Spain and we do, when we are in our first legislature", in reference to the electoral victory of his party, the PSOE, in the appointment with the polls held in 2019.

 

The truth is that the challenge, which does not cease to be a step to the real maturity of the island's regional authorities given how especially sensitive it is to decide on its coastline (and more with the serious warning of a climate change that will change the rules of the game in that sense) in the opinion of Torres "means being able to expedite the files [certainly, claimed from all the sectors involved] with a knowledge of the cause closer to the reality of the Canary Islands". Of course, not oblivious to the controversy raised among public opinion before such a transcendent change in the rules of the game, Torres is clear that all this must occur with "the commitment to respect the environment, but we must also make it coexist with the economic generation that tourism means for the Canary Islands".

 

The vice president, Román Rodríguez (NC), stressed that this is the competence of "greater shaft" that contemplates as a novelty the new Statute. For the Minister of Ecological Transition, José Antonio Valbuena, it is an achievement that strengthens the community. This Friday he will meet with the workers who will be transferred and with municipalities and councils. "Those who fear that there may be an open bar must discard it. The law of Costas is the same; what there will be is more sensitivity and closeness, but the same protection of our coastline."


A couple of comments added under the article:

* RIP coasts and coast of the Canary Islands.

* The Canarians need many things, but the competences of Costas so that outrages and illegalities continue to be made on our beaches, no, we do not need that.

It is already good to take out the nationalist flag and the oppression that we receive from the peninsula. That we are not batons.

The news "forgets" to say that the space from the maritime land public demarcation is in the hands of the State; I don't know how they could have forgotten about this, but it smells a little.

Bad news, therefore, for those who thought and shouted that since the competences of Costas were transferred they would be able to do what they wanted.

I see the demolition of the Oliva Beach hotel getting closer and closer at least; that Riu prepares to remove the debris and leave the sands clean.
The battle is going to be beautiful because the usual caciquillos, very Canarian them, will want to twist the Law in favor of their interests.

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Noticias:

Canary Islands will assume from tomorrow the competences of Costas.

The Government of the Canary Islands hopes to resolve the proceedings more closely.

As of tomorrow, January 1, the Government of the Canary Islands will assume the competences in matters of Coasts. The objective with this new way of proceeding "is to resolve in a more agile and close way" the different files or authorizations in this type of public domain area.

 

Last Thursday Antonio Olivera, Deputy Minister of the Presidency, during the press conference after the last Governing Council of the year, confirmed that this Sunday the Archipelago will assume the competence and added that in such a transfer problems can always occur, and more in a matter with as much content as Costas. "

 

 

"There can always be some small friction but honestly no relevant problem has been generated that has been communicated to the Government as a difficulty," he observed.

 

On the other hand, for the management of competences, 20 workers are transferred to which the Canary Islands will incorporate another 25 from January. The Canarian president, Ángel Víctor Torres valued at the time that this agreement could be signed after a negotiation "that has not been easy".

 

Controversy in Fuerteventura

 

In Fuerteventura an important social problem has been generated in relation to the files of the hotels located in the Natural Park of the Dunes of Corralejo in which the cession of the competences of coasts is expected to assess by the Canarian authorities the solution of the conflict.
In any case, the Canarian authorities explained a few months ago that the "transfer of these powers will not mean a reinterpretation of the current law to favor certain interests, but a greater closeness on the part of the administration when analyzing these procedures.