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The city council of Madrid implants a mechanism to exert the control in the activities lúdicas.

Tuned of the licences of activities with the Periodic Control

Borja García Palencia, Technical Director of EQA Licences Urbanísticas03/04/2013

The aim of this implantation is to regulate the fulfillment of the valid rules in matter of protection of fires and half environingingmental, with the end to protect to the users, occupants and verify that the activities affected keep the conditions with which awarded them the licence.

The diagram of the Periodic Control seems a lot to the Technical Inspection of Vehicles (ITV) or the technical Inspection of Buildings (ITE), that carry already time implanted, and whose end is the hygiene of the drivers in the first case and of the occupants and pedestrians in the second case. The activities forced to subject to this ordenanza are very wide, and go from venues of leisure and hospitality industry (bars and restaurants in function of surface, discotheques and nocturnal venues without limitation of surface, hotels and hostales with more than 25 rooms…), until educational centres in function of his size.

As we know the licences urbanísticas and of activities have an indefinite force, as long as they do not realise works that can affect to his operation. When it concedes a licence of activity, the municipal services verify that the activity pretended fulfils the valid rule in the moment of the application. Said rule in bold strokes can resumir in urbanística, half environingingmental, of protection of fires and another sectorial. Nevertheless the regulations suffer crowd of modifications along the time, adapt to the social realities and tend to improve the parameters of hygiene being but restrictivas in a lot of cases, especially those that tend to look after the hygiene. It is logical to think that activities with ancient licences, obtained with rules also ancient, to day of today would not fulfil with the current rules, especially regarding the hygiene of his occupants.

On the other hand, also is logical to think that it does not have the same incidence in the hygiene or the environingingment a small trade where is rare that joint but of 15-20 people and there is a small schemes of air conditioned to a bar of glasses, or a restaurant where in a similar space to the of the trade can joint more than 100 people. Said establishments in addition to generating annoying smells by the kitchens, broadcasts of discharges of scheme of air conditioned or of renewal of air very upper to the ones of the trade, that can bother to neighbours, pedestrians and even the users of the activity, even fulfilling the rule of the date of the application of the licence, at present would not fulfil it.

With the intention to look after the hygiene of the users of the activity on the one hand and of which suffer the consequences of the activity by another, the Periodic Control of Activities looks for that these adapt to the valid rule in matter of protection of fires and environingingmental. The Periodic Control of Activities this normalised through the Ordenanza by which establishes the Diet of Gestión of Control of the Licences Urbanísticas of Activities (OGLUA) valid from April of 2010 and back modification of July of 2012, and is in the articulated of the ordenanza where the city council enters this mechanism of forced fulfillment for the headlines of the activities affected.

Borja García Palencia, Technical Director of EQA Licences Urbanísticas on this image, informs of the normative 'Periodic Control', that has implanted the City council of Madrid.

Companies Collaborators of Licences Urbanísticas (Eclu) will commission to realise inspeciones regularly

This same Ordinance already incorporates public-private partnerships through the collaborating companies of urban development licenses (Eclu), which are private companies that work together with the City Council of Madrid in the management and processing of the urban development licenses and the newspaper Control of activities. Thus undertake inspection the Eclus, which issued a report which can be favourable or unfavourable depending on the detected shortcomings. It is a new procedure, amounts that will be credited to the Eclus are established according to the surface of the activity in 4 sections: up to 300 m², 301 to 500 m²,²501 to 1500 m and 1500 onwards, with a maximum of 2,500. So for example to a café 300m²the cost would approximately 350 plus VAT.

Favorable report implies that local is consistent with the license granted and also meets the current requirements in the field of fire and environment, so you must request another control within a period of 7 years. The unfavorable report basically involves having to adapt the activity to the granted license and/or the current applicable regulations in environmental and fire safety. They can occur up to several assumptions ranging from simply making small works to regularize activity to legalize work performed without a license, or that these works involve a modification of the original license, the obligation to adapt to environmental and fire protection, regulations and even the worst that implies that the detected deficiencies in the activity not can be exercised.