The Government of the Canary Islands will hold next April 10 in Tenerife a bilateral meeting with the Ministry of Territorial Policy to advance in the negotiations on the co-management of airports and the management of incentives of the Economic and Fiscal Regime (REF).
The spokesperson of the autonomous Executive, Alfonso Cabello, has confirmed the meeting at the press conference after the weekly Governing Council.
The meeting was initially scheduled with the then Secretary of State for Territorial Policy, Arcadi España, before his appointment as Minister of Finance, and it will finally be his male or female substitute who travels to the Canary Islands to hold the meeting, the spokesperson has indicated.
Cabello has explained that the objective of the Canarian Government is to advance in the fulfillment of the Statute of Autonomy in two "basic" areas: on the one hand, the management of incentives linked to the REF, including the materialization of the Reserve for Investments in the Canary Islands (RIC) and tax deductions for audiovisual productions; and on the other hand, the decision-making capacity over the management of the islands' airports, included in article 161 of the Statute of Autonomy of the Canary Islands.
The spokesperson has recalled that the central Government has recently reached an agreement with the Basque Executive to advance towards a shared management body for its airports and that "if in any territory it makes sense that one can actively participate in the decision-making and management of them it is in the Canary Islands Autonomous Community".
The autonomous government hopes that the Ministry of Finance accelerates the pending works, after technical reports from the Ministry of Transport already exist, so that both negotiations can advance in parallel, Cabello concluded.
