The Canary Islands Audiovisual Cluster requests, through a statement, “the withdrawal of the draft of the Master Plan for Use and Management (PRUG) of the Teide National Park” whose public exhibition period to present allegations ends today, after the last extension of the term by the Regional Council for Ecological Transition. The collective requests “that a real participatory process be opened”, where “the future is jointly built” of the protected natural area.
The Cluster openly expresses its “opposite position” to the approval of the PRUG, “which establishes, on pages 24 and 25, the prohibition of audiovisual activities for advertising purposes, the installation of any fixed or removable element that involves the occupation of the public space and reduces the members of the work team to two”. A regulation that the association understands means “prohibiting practically all of any audiovisual activity.”
The document, understands this source, “was born without the consensus of the population or public administrations or with the sectors that see their activity affected.” They add: “The ordering of an icon as important as Mount Teide must have the greatest social and economic consensus.”
For the Audiovisual Cluster, which represents more than 70 companies and entities in the sector in the Canary Islands, “the draft of the Plan is prepared unilaterally, with extreme regulatory will, without attending to technical and environmental criteria and without a Report that determines the level of load and saturation for the activity”.
The statement from the Audiovisual Cluster concludes: “The sector has requested effective participation in the approval process of the new PRUG. It is willing to work together in the development of a plan, which, above all, would have as its objective the conservation of the natural environment, but which at the same time attends to and understands the possibilities of a professional, responsible and respectful audiovisual activity with environment.
