Cantabria premieres Environmental Control Law With several key points in this new regulations: it reduces administrative procedures, raises fines and will have a specific inspection unit. This was approved a few days ago by the Cantabrian government about this bill that aims to reduce administrative duplicities, in addition to facilitating the arrival of investments to Cantabria while the protection of the environment of the community is guaranteed.
“This law comes to make economic investments easier in Cantabria and defend the environment with the same guarantees that had been done so far,” explained the Minister of Environment, Roberto Media, by making this new law known.
In addition, the counselor underlines, this New regulations It was born to promote public-private co-responsibility through the establishment of corrective measures to repair or compensate for possible environmental damage that occur, apart from promoting social participation.
Cantabria approves the Environmental Control Law that creates an inspection unit
The Government of Cantabria has approved on Wednesday the environmental control bill, which reduces procedures with the introduction of the prior responsible declaration for the lowest impact projects, reinforces Inspection with the creation of a specific unit and raises fineswhich can reach half a million euros.
The Minister of the Environment, Roberto Media, has announced at a press conference the approval of this bill that aims, has underlined, reduce administrative procedures and duplicities, facilitate the arrival of investments to Cantabria and guarantee the protection of the environment.
Media has advanced that the Regional Executive hopes to refer today to the Parliament of Cantabria the bill for its processing and approval “in a reasonably and fast way,” he has trusted. “I think this is a good law for Cantabria, which has come to last over time,” he defended.
And he has laid the government’s hand for negotiations that are now opened in the Regional Chamber with the objective that this new law, which replaces To the “obsolete” Integrated Environmental Control Law, of the year 2006, goes ahead with the greatest possible consensus. «This law comes to do Easy economic investments in Cantabria and defend the environment with the same guarantees that had been done so far, ”he said.
The Environmental Control Commission in Cantabria is eliminated
Among the main changes to expedite procedures is the elimination of the Environmental Control Commissionan administrative body that should meet and issue a report, and to cover its verification functions, on the one hand, the figure of the responsible declaration for issues or actions “of little impact” and, on the other, the direct report of the General Directorate in the most impact on the most impact.
In the cases of lower environmental impact, this organ will no longer have to go through this bodywhose opinion could be delayed “months,” as the counselor said. With the new standard, it will be enough for the interested party and the technician to issue that responsible statement indicating that the requirements are met, which will allow the activity to be launched with a verification that the administration will be made afterwards.
«That will allow them to start their activity and, subsequently, the administration will verify that all the documentation is in order and that the activity coincides with what is declared and with the current regulations. If there is any irregularity, the immediate closure of the activity will proceed and both the promoter and the responsible technician will be sanctioned, ”explained the head of the Environment.
In addition, in the most environmental activities, the Environmental Check Commission is replaced by the report, mandatory and binding, which will be issued by the General Directorate of Environment, which will centralize the reception of the necessary sectoral reports. The General Directorate will be the one that Ask for the preceptive reports to the departments that have to issue them in a more agile process.
Likewise, with the new law, the autonomous community will be responsible for granting the Integrated Environmental Authorizations (AII) and environmental evaluationsand to issue the environmental verification reports, “thus discharging the municipalities”, which will have the competence to monitor and control the activities subject to environmental verification.
More inspection and higher fines
The law seeks to achieve the highest level of environmental protection, expedite bureaucracy and avoid duplication, and establish an environmental administrative control prior to the implementation of certain facilities and subsequent supervision.
Also to promote the Public-private co-responsibilityestablish corrective measures to repair or compensate for possible environmental damage and promote social participation. The text also provides for the possibility of implementing urgent precautionary measures for cases where an immediate action is necessary before a serious risk.
In these cases, the administration reserves the power to paralyze the activity, seize both the facilities and the machinery and, even, withdraw and seize the products.
In addition, The law increases the amounts of sanctionswhich can range from 200 euros, in the case of mild, to 500,000 euros, for the very serious ones.
And to ensure compliance with the regulations, the counselor has indicated that the control work is influenced, for which, for the moment, the Ministry already has four inspectors, although it has advanced that it works on a change in the list of jobs to be able to create a specific inspection unit. The inspection is also reinforced through the regulation of the Inspection Plan for Integrated Environmental Authorizations and Integrated Environmental Inspection Programs.
“This future law has a clear vocation of administrative simplification, with the determined willingness to reduce and expedite the procedures and the bureaucratic burden that companies and citizens support in any activity subject to some type of environmental control and, at the same time, that the activities necessary to achieve the progress of the region can live in harmony with the protection of the environment,” said average. EFE / ECOTICIAS.com