The Ministry of Public Administrations, Justice and Security of the Canarian Governments, who directs Julio Perez (PSOE)wants to change the bill of Organizational Efficiency of the Administration of Justicewhich is already being processed in the Cortes Generales, “in order to correct, in a timely manner, the Demarcation and Judicial Plant Law so that include the unification of the judicial districts of Puerto de la Cruz and La Orotava», as explained by the Deputy Minister of Justice, Carla Vallejoat the end of the Extraordinary Sectoral Conference on the Administration of Justice held this Friday, May 27, 2022.
In this meeting, held under the chairmanship of the General Secretary for Innovation and Quality of the Public Service of Justice, Manuel Olmedothe state of the laws that are in process was analyzed, mainly that of Organizational Efficiency, which is already in The deputies congress, about to start the phase of processing amendments. Vallejo has indicated that the new organizational model, based on the structure of the Courts of Instance and with which it is intended to provide the Administration of Justice of a much more efficient work model, part of the current judicial structure of 431 judicial districts, but that, in certain cases, in which there is broad consensus, it would be necessary to modify the Law of Demarcation and Judicial Plant in order to unify some of them, as in Puerto de la Cruz and La Orotava.
It is not the first time that the Canarian Government has made a proposal in this sense, but now the Ministry of Justice, although it does not plan a general reform of the aforementioned Law of Demarcation and Judicial Plant«understands that in those specific cases in which there is a common position of all the administrations, as in the case of Puerto de la Cruz and La Orotavait is possible to introduce, through an amendment, such a modification within the draft law of Organizational Efficiency », they explain from the regional department.
In this Sectoral Conference it was already agreed to transfer to the Cortes the proposal that comes from the Canary Islands for the Valle de La Orotava, which will insist on the justifications and reasons that have been given since the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC)the town councils of the region, the judges of the area, the Bar Association of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Bar Association, the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences or the Police Station of the National Police Corps of Puerto de la Cruz-Los Realejos.
The Sectoral Conference on the Administration of Justice agreed to submit to the Cortes the Canarian proposal for the Valle de La Orotava
This sectoral conference, which is attended by representatives of the autonomous communities, has also approved the schedule for the distribution of European funds for 2022 and 2023, whose distribution criteria had already been set at the previous sectoral conference, which completes the entirety of transfers of Funds from the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism for Justice.
As detailed by the Deputy Minister of Justice, The Canary Islands will receive 15,079,522 euros between 2022 and 2023, through two transfers. The first, in June of this year, for the equivalent of 90% of the amount, and the second, in 2023, for the remaining 10%. This amount is added to the funding received in 2021, which amounts to 10,079,505 euros.