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The mayor of Granadilla, Jaime González Cejas, indicated yesterday in Brussels that the updated data on the corrective measures of the environmental impact of the sized project of the port of Granadilla, which have been requested by the community services of the Directorate-General for the Environment, will arrive in Brussels at the end of this month or the first week of September. González Cejas took stock yesterday at the headquarters of the Canary Islands Government Office in Brussels of the meetings he held in the community capital to address the evolution of the Granadilla file.
The Tenerife mayor met at the Permanent Representation (Reper) of Spain to the European Union (EU) with the advisors responsible for this issue, specifically with José Lucas (Trade and Canary Islands issues) and Miguel Castroviejo (Environment).
Subsequently, he went to the Directorate-General for the Environment of the European Commission where he met with the services of the Infringements Unit, headed by Julio García Burgues, to whom he conveyed the "conviction and necessity" of carrying out the Granadilla Port project to complement the port of Santa Cruz.
Jaime González Cejas confirmed that his interlocutors from the environmental services had asked him for a "greater deepening of the corrective measures" of the project agreed for the port of Granadilla. The mayor of the municipality of southern Tenerife indicated that he will inform the Government of the Canary Islands of this request, which, via Madrid, must send the documentation to Brussels.
Therefore, González Cejas wanted to convey a message of "tranquility" to the citizens since a "study on the environmental impact" will be carried out. The mayor shared the concern for environmental issues shown by the European Commission, so he considered that it will be possible to positively resolve this file.
According to the mayor of this Tenerife town, the need to present this adaptation, particularly of the compensatory measures, responds to the modifications that have been carried out in the Granadilla port project itself.
In this regard, Jaime González Cejas explained that the community services had conveyed to him the complexity of this "file that over time has evolved from a port of larger dimensions" to the project that was definitively agreed between the Canary Islands and Madrid of a smaller size.
The mayor of this municipality in the south of Tenerife expressed that these data had been prepared in the case of the initial plan to build the port of Granadilla but that they have not been adapted to the modifications of the project.
For this reason, for the services of the European Commission it is "important that we deepen the impact" environmental and the actions to correct it "with reference" to the new "sized port", that is, to the definitive project on the port of Granadilla that was submitted to the Community Executive at the time, said the mayor.
In view of which, Jaime González Cejas conveyed to the senior officials of the Directorate-General for the Environment his full willingness to "provide all the information" necessary.