The proposed Law on the tourist municipalities of San Bartolomé de Tirajana and Mogán, together with others in the Canary Islands, continues its parliamentary journey and establishes that the local pressure group, which at one time had the former MP José Carlos Mauricio as advisor, will have its own legal personality to make joint decisions and establish agreements. One of the points foreseen in the law states that "those Canary Islands municipalities that enjoy the status of municipalities with a large population in accordance with the basic legislation on local government, as they already have their own preferential regime in accordance with the same, cannot be declared tourist municipalities in the Canary Islands."
This means that the presence of Las Palmas at fairs such as Fitur, for example, will no longer make sense and that the capital of Gran Canaria will enjoy the same status as Firgas or Teror. A ton of town councils of diverse colours support this request. The parliamentary proposal states that the declaration of a tourist municipality in the Canary Islands "does not imply that of an area of great tourist influx for the purposes provided for in the sectorial regulations that regulate commercial hours within the scope of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands" and therefore the opening and trading calendar of large stores must be revised.
Among other details, it is highlighted that companies based in San Bartolomé de Tirajana and Mogán "may use the tourist logo of said municipality for promotional, informational or advertising purposes, subject to prior authorization from the corresponding city council" and that the association of tourist municipalities of the Canary Islands is recognized as an entity that may make agreements for this purpose with the different public administrations and their public sector, as well as with entities in the private sector. This association will be subject to the legislation on associations and will be governed by its statutes, approved by the representatives of the municipalities that constitute it, which must guarantee the participation of its members in the associative tasks and the representativeness of its governing bodies. The law provides that career civil servants holding positions in all municipal management bodies listed in article 30 of this law will be in a special service situation with respect to their Administration of origin, enjoying all the rights inherent to such a situation, especially those recognised in article 87 of Royal Legislative Decree 5/2015, of 30 October, which approves the revised text of the Basic Statute of Public Employees or the law that replaces it.
It highlights that "in all cases they will receive the remuneration of the position or effective post they hold and not the remuneration that corresponds to them as civil servants, without prejudice to the right to receive the three-year periods that they may have recognized as civil servants" that "the personnel who provide services in positions or posts in entities dependent on or linked to the municipal Administration by senior management contract will be assimilated to senior officials for the purposes of the administrative situation of special services."
