SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 3 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Economic and Social Council of the Canary Islands (CES) recommends continuously monitoring compliance with the Economic and Fiscal Regime (REF), promoting administrative simplification and accelerating economic diversification in the archipelago.
These are the main lines of the report corresponding to 2022 that the president of the organization, José Carlos Francisco, delivered this Friday to the president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo.
The report, structured in five axes and with 18 recommendations, highlights the need to strengthen social coordination to promote participation in all economic development policies.
It also recommends the modernization of collective bargaining, making it more agile, with the aim of achieving greater flexibility for companies and workers to adapt to the economic reality of each moment.
“The objective of the Council is to make available to Canarian society and its institutions an instrument of knowledge of the socioeconomic reality of the Canary Islands that facilitates decision-making in the short, medium and long term to face the challenges faced by the islands,” Francisco explained.
The document also reflects the need to carry out a rigorous analysis of how the decentralization of state powers in the Autonomous Community affects administrative simplification, always guaranteeing legal certainty.
“The Canary Islands must avoid generic proposals for administrative simplification, because they will come face to face with the political-administrative dynamics,” he confirmed.
Regarding the recommendations of an economic nature, it is highlighted that the Canary Islands “need to increase economic dynamism, incorporating to a greater extent new activities such as the audiovisual industry, the blue economy, the aeronautical and aerospace economy, since they present great opportunities for the creation of employment”.
INNOVATIONAL PROJECTS
Likewise, the CES proposes the launch of experimental initiatives to assess the implementation of public-private management models in terms of investments, public services and innovative projects, because, according to the president of the CES, “the collaboration between the public and the private sector has great potential for the creation of economic and social value”.
The Economic and Social Council of the Canary Islands also highlights the convenience of the promotion and defense of competition being constituted as a public function designed to promote business initiative despite the costs of insularity.
The Annual Report also calls for an in-depth review of social policies to be carried out, as well as an evaluation before and after their implementation and recommends, among other aspects, updating the demographic data of the Canary Islands throughout recent years, as well as the forecasts of demographic evolution that make it possible to have the necessary information to design efficient public service policies, includes a note from the Canary Islands Government.
Clavijo took advantage of the meeting to convey to the representatives of the CES, led by its head José Carlos Francisco, that improving the productivity of the Canary Islands is one of the lines of work of greatest interest to the Government, since it will contribute to increasing the average salary and to improve the muscle of the business fabric of the archipelago.
