The Governing Council of Canarias has agreed to the territorial legalization of four farms, which total 2,446 heads of livestock, two are in Teguise and the other two in Antigua (Fuerteventura) and San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife).
According to the application of the procedure provided for in Law 6/2009 on urgent measures in territorial planning for the sectoral dynamization and tourism planning in Canarias, authorization is granted to the activity and to the corresponding buildings and facilities.
This measure represents a new advance in the process of reactivating regularizations promoted by the General Directorate of Livestock and affects four facilities dedicated mainly to milk production for the elaboration of dairy products, but also to breeding and reproduction, with a census that, in the set of the four authorized farms, covers 2,416 goats, fourteen horses, twelve cows, three sheep and one donkey.
As stated in the file of the Service of Industries, Registries and Animal Welfare, the four facilities are registered in the Registro de Explotaciones Ganaderas (REGA), and as reflected in the comparative study of aerial photographs contained in the report carried out by GMR Canarias, their buildings are subsequent to the entry into force of the Ley 9/1999 de Ordenación del Territorio de Canarias, so that the third final provision of the Ley del Suelo y de los Espacios Naturales Protegidos de Canarias is applicable.
As the regulations state, the Government, at the proposal of the Consejería de Agricultura, Ganadería, Pesca y Soberanía Alimentaria and in accordance with the departments with competencies in land management and environment, may agree to the territorial and environmental legalization of livestock buildings and installations, currently in operation, that had been executed, without the corresponding administrative titles, prior to the entry into force of the aforementioned Land Management Law in the Canary Islands.
Furthermore, the agreement of the Governing Council establishes the actions of a sanitary, environmental, functional, aesthetic, and animal welfare nature that must be executed as a requirement for legalization within a period of eighteen months counted from the day following that of the notification, which may be extended for nine additional months.
The aforementioned authorizations are framed within a regularization plan of the Canarian Executive for exploitations carried out before 1999 that have passed a series of procedures. In this regard, the processing involves both the respective cabildos and the city councils where the exploitation is located, as well as other public administrations, among them Dirección General de Protección de la Naturaleza or Dirección General de Ordenación del Territorio.
