SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 24. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Council of Government has approved the decree of delegation with singular character in the Council of La Gomera of the functions of management and conservation of the National Park of Garajonay.
This delegation will last for 10 years, extendable from the day it becomes effective.
The delegated functions include the ordinary and usual administration and management of the park and the investigation, inspection, initiation, processing and resolution of sanctioning procedures for infringement of the applicable regulations, without prejudice to the powers attributed to the Canarian Environmental Protection Agency. Natural, provided for in the Land Law and Protected Natural Areas of the Canary Islands.
In the exercise of the delegated powers, the Cabildo will adjust its operation to the regimen established in the Law of Insular Cabildos; to the Law of the Common Administrative Procedure of the Public Administrations; to the Law of Bases of the Local Regime, in addition to the legislation issued by the Parliament of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands that is applicable and to the basic state legislation, includes a note from the Executive.
Once this delegation is approved, the services, personal means, materials and resources that must be transferred to the insular corporation for the exercise of these delegated powers will be determined together with the Cabildo in a mixed transfer commission.
The Canarian Government reserves the regulatory and planning functions derived from the Master Plans for Use and Management; the declaration, modification of the limits and loss of the condition as a National Park; and those inherent to the coordination and maintenance of the coherence of the Network of National Parks.
The Parliament of the Canary Islands, in a plenary session on December 11 and 12, 2018, already discussed the authorization of the delegation of powers in matters of management of the Garajonay and La Caldera de Taburiente National Parks to the councils of La Gomera and La Palma with unique character.
As a result of this debate, the Resolution of December 12, 2018 emerged, in which the Parliament ruled in favor of the delegation of the aforementioned powers, conditional, among other issues, on the scope of the delegated functions being without prejudice to the powers of the Canarian Agency for the Protection of the Natural Environment, provided for by the Law on Land and Protected Natural Areas of the Canary Islands.
