FEHT reminds Puertos Canarios that a new concession for industrial use at the Santa Águeda quay is not legally possible

The Board of Directors of the Las Palmas Federation of Hostels and Tourism Entrepreneurs (FEHT) requested today to comply with the legal provisions regarding their permitted use after the expiration of the industrial use concession of the Santa Águeda pier in Arguineguín. a cement company. For tourism entrepreneurs, compliance with the island land regulations that provide for private tourist use of said pier, which creates “an opportunity for the development of quality activities in the best expansion area of ​​the municipality of San Bartolomé” is inexcusable. Tirajana”. And according to this evidence, the mixed use of the port in question was excluded as recommended by the regional government through the public agency Puertos Canarios.

In this regard, the FEHT reminded all public administrations of their obligations to guarantee legal certainty for economic units and compliance with city law in this regard, in order to defend the general interests of the municipality and the island. The tourism association specifically refers to the call of the Puertos Canarios board of directors next Monday, November 28, which includes on its agenda an appropriate agreement for the processing and granting of a new industrial concession. Public domain in the port of Santa Azgueda. However, he underlines that FEHT cannot ignore the current legislation.

For the reasons stated, granting a new industrial concession under the terms proposed by the general manager of Puertos Canarios would violate regional and urban planning, as the FEHT Board of Directors stated that “granting a new concession title is not possible to extend over time the existing industrial or commercial use of the port of Santa Águeda. ”, as this would clearly be contrary to the provisions contained in the existing island planning which allows for the mandatory conversion of the existing industrial or commercial port once. The concession on a sports and recreational facility in the service of new land uses designed by the Gran Canaria Island Planning Plan has expired.

The FEHT also warns that the procedural steps required in the proposal that are already incompatible with island planning are not followed, adding that it is inappropriate to accept an agreement, as proposed, conducive to the processing and granting of a new concession. Administrative file has been processed without the obligatory report of the executive director of the public administration about the requested concession, without observing the procedures of publicity and public disclosure, without examining the claims that can be made in these procedures, and without obtaining a report from the General Directorate of Industry of the Government of the Canary Islands.

In addition, it is not possible to grant a new concession on the port of Santa Águeda, since there is an industrial use concession at the quay, referring to an alleged but absolutely nonexistent relationship with regard to the mining concession to the subordinate nature of the activity. It has never had a legal connection with the extraction of minerals.

Finally, tourism entrepreneurs emphasize that granting a new concession directly to the cement company under the intended conditions “clearly violates the principles of promotion and competitive competition, which must be adhered to in the granting of all public concessions”. It is not possible to propose a new concession for FEHT without following these principles or without invoking the relevant competitive tendering procedure in which all potential parties involved in the use and operation of port facilities can participate.