Furthermore, the Minister of Governance, Digital Governance and Self-Government of the Basque Government hopes to conclude an agreement on the competence for coastal management by the end of this year. Upon their return in August, working committees between the two leaders will be set up.
The Minister of Governance, Digital Governance and Self-Government of the Basque Government, Maria Ubarretxenahas announced that the Bilateral Commission will meet before the end of October to “deepen” the ongoing transfers of the Gernika Statute.
In addition, the council hopes to reach an agreement on competition in the field of coastal management by the end of this year.
Ubarretxena met today afternoon with the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory of the Government of Spain, Angel Victor Torres.
The first meeting of the Permanent Bilateral Commission will therefore take place before the end of October and will address the 29 issues that the Spanish Government has promised to hand over to the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV) in the coming years. special attention to the six competencies that are already on the table.
Working committees around the month of August
The representatives of both governments explained that working committees between the two executive powers will be established at the end of August so that an initial approach can be put on the table in the Bilateral Commission.
As they explained, the objective during this first meeting of the Bilateral Commission is to advance the transfers for which the Ministry already has a draft, which was submitted to the Ministry by the previous government of Iñigo Urkullu.
These are six topics, such as coastline, immigration (the authorization to work as a self-employed person or as an employee for foreigners whose employment relationship takes place in the BAC), Maritime rescue, meteorology, occupational health and safety and film protection fund.
The counselor, who thanked the. good attitude of the minister and his teamhas stated that for the Basque Government “the transfer of the coastline is of fundamental importance” and therefore hopes “to be able to reach an agreement on this issue by the end of the year.”
For his part, the Head of Territorial Policy indicated that the October Bilateral Conference will make it possible “to continue the work on transfers, which has borne good fruits in these months of work.”
Ángel Víctor Torres has highlighted as “fundamental” the principles of “co-governance, dialogue and cooperation”, which, he stressed, are the principles that have prevailed so far in the relationship between the Government of Spain and the Basque Government.
When asked if he was in a position to confirm that the CAV would include the 29 pending transfers in the Gernika Statute during the aforementioned two-year period, Torres replied that they will “do everything in their power”although ‘whenever dates are placed in agreements’ this is done ‘tentatively’.
Next Tuesday’s meeting comes after the commitment made last Friday by Spanish President Pedro Sánchez and Lehendakari Imanol Pradales for compliance with the law and the development of self-government.
In February, the Basque and Spanish governments agreed to transfer the migrant reception system, the Cercanías trains and the homologation of foreign university degrees to the BAC.
Source: EITB
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