This new regulatory framework seeks to improve the management and quality of industrial land, as well as the competitiveness of companies.
The regulation promotes public-private collaboration with local councils for the modernisation of industrial areas.
The Consell de Govern has approved the Draft Law on the management and modernisation of the industrial development areas of the Balearic Islands, a novel initiative promoted by the Ministry of Enterprise, Employment and Energy, which aims to regulate the establishment of measures aimed at achieving the modernisation and proper management of the industrial development areas of the territory.
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Approval of the Draft Law on the management and modernisation of the industrial development areas of the Balearic Islands
The approved project seeks to ensure that the industrial development areas of the Balearic Islands have the infrastructures, facilities and services necessary for the efficient, economic, social and environmentally sustainable development of economic activities in order to improve the management and quality of industrial land and the competitiveness of companies.
Within the framework of this project, an industrial development area is understood as each of the territorial areas of urban land for which urban planning establishes industrial use as the dominant use, or the appropriate use for productive development, taking into account the needs for local economic development.
The regulatory text incorporates instruments to encourage the professionalised management of industrial promotion areas. In this way, the creation of professionalised management is facilitated through the establishment of the category of management and modernisation entities (EGM) of industrial promotion areas and any entity is allowed to enhance its management through this figure, only by accrediting its professional nature, without the need to modify its legal nature or its management or statutory regulations. This management can also be carried out through chambers of commerce, industry, services navigation or business associations.
Public-private collaboration for the modernisation of industrial areas is of unquestionable interest in this new regulation, through the participation of local councils. The project values the irreplaceable task of local entities and establishes frameworks for collaboration, both organic and conventional, so that, with full respect for their autonomy, they can boost the competitiveness of the territory’s industrial promotion areas.
Following this line, the document provides formulas so that, voluntarily, the public administrations and the private sector can jointly achieve their objectives, without detriment to the responsibilities and competencies of the local entities in the financing of their maintenance and conservation services. In this regard, a series of proposals are put forward to promote the competitiveness of industrial development areas and established companies, enabling the transfer of rights, as well as the granting of aid and tax benefits to EGMs and companies, when these present situations of public interest.
The Bill creates an Integrated Information System for industrial promotion areas, to incorporate relevant content to enable decision-making, the creation of synergies, the attraction of business initiatives and the informed participation of the agents involved.
It also establishes the Regional Plan for Competitiveness, a four-year document to be drawn up by the regional ministry responsible for industry, which must incorporate measures and actions to be developed on the basis of an integrated information tool, a participatory model and a quality improvement system, in order to achieve the objectives of modernisation and increased competitiveness as a destination for business projects.
It also provides for the establishment of a Commission for the Competitiveness of the Industrial Promotion Areas of the Balearic Islands, which is to be the main advisory body through which the participation of all the agents involved is structured. Finally, the law creates the Register of Management and Modernisation Entities, which is public, free of charge and electronic.
This law is based on respect for the freedom of civil society and avoids imposing criteria in an imperative manner by offering a set of initiatives and a series of tools so that associations and business entities can optimise their efforts in collaboration with local councils.