Gobierno de Canarias

Regulation (EU) 2018/848 and its implementing rules for Regulation (EU) 2021/1165 are often drafted in a cumbersome way, but they are at least consistent. The lack of transparency and unnecessary restrictions arise in matters left to the discretion of the Member States, such as the definition of intensive livestock farming, with reference to the use of conventional manure, provided for in Annex II to Regulation (EU)…

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The Government of the Canary Islands welcomes the proposal for a directive amending Directives 2001/18/EC and 2010/53/EU, adapting the European framework to biotechnological developments and encouraging innovation, provided that simplification preserves public health, patient safety, biosafety and the environment.

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The Government of the Canary Islands welcomes the proposal for a regulation. However, the following considerations are necessary: (1) it is essential to ensure the active involvement of regional health services and public hospitals in the governance, implementation and monitoring of the Regulation.

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The Canary Islands, as the outermost region (ORs) of the European Union, would like to highlight the urgent need to integrate the specific challenges and opportunities of the outermost regions into the future European Biotechnology Law. There is a territorial imbalance in the European biotechnology ecosystem, strongly concentrated in continental regions, which limits the development of decentralised poles.

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With regard to this proposed amendment, the Government of the Canary Islands makes the following comments: It should be noted, first of all, that it is positive to simplify administrative burdens for citizens. However, the burdens that are avoided on operators are transferred, to a certain extent, to the competent bodies of the Member States or the Autonomous Communities, as is the case in the Canary Islands.

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The future European Ocean Law is a key opportunity to consolidate an integrated and effective ocean governance, geared towards the resilience of marine ecosystems, the sustainable use of resources and the territorial, social and technological cohesion of coastal and island regions.

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The Government of the Canary Islands, as an outermost region recognised in Article 349 TFEU, has made comments on European initiatives linked to zero emissions industry and CO management, stressing that the geographical, geological and industrial characteristics of the archipelago limit its participation in this area.

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The Government of the Canary Islands wishes to remind the European institutions that, in order to take due account of the structural social and economic situation of the outermost regions (ORs), in accordance with Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, specific measures must be adopted to lay down the conditions of application of the Treaties to these regions, including common policies, including…

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This contribution from the Government of the Canary Islands, in the attached document, forms part of the call for evidence Ares (2025) 9919727, launched by the Commission on 17 November 2025, concerning the regulatory simplification package for the EU’s outermost regions.

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This year, the Commission will adopt a new Communication for the renewal of the Strategy for the Outermost Regions, on which a consultation process has already been launched and in which we have been actively involved by the Government of the Canary Islands. Attached to this contribution is the document submitted last June 2025.

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The Government of the Canary Islands welcomes Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 on fertilising products, given its contribution to market harmonisation, user safety and environmental protection. However, it identifies some adjustments that are necessary to ensure their full effectiveness in outermost regions (ORs) such as the Canary Islands, characterised by insularity, territorial fragmentation, smallholder and heavy…

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In connection with this consultation, the Government of the Canary Islands sets out its considerations, taking into account the impact that this legislative initiative may have on the Canary Islands, as an outermost region, considering the fact that it has unique limitations and characteristics that distinguish it from the rest of the European Union, as recognised in Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of…

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The Government of the Canary Islands considers it necessary to provide greater protection for airlines that are managed on the basis of solvency and economic liquidity, so as to limit access to public funding for those that do not comply, by means of restrictions on access to public funds, so that commercial growth operations are not carried out before they have returned the public funding.

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The Government of the Canary Islands considers that the new EU law on delivery services is essential to adapt the legislation to the new realities of e-commerce, sustainability and territorial cohesion in the EU.

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This evaluation is a key tool to guide public policies and identify actions to be developed under the ESF +. It is also presented as an essential tool for the review of the programmes in line with the results achieved.

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The Government of the Canary Islands stresses that one of the main problems of construction services for a company, whether carried out on a cross-border basis or not, is that, being services that must be physically provided, it involves the transfer of staff and workers (specialised or not) to the place where the work is to be carried out.

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The Government of the Canary Islands intends to analyse the impact, in terms of effectiveness and efficiency, of the inclusion of aid to compensate for the additional costs incurred by operators in the fishing, farming, processing and marketing of certain fishery and aquaculture products from the Canary Islands in the mid-term evaluation of the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) (2021-2027).

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The Government of the Canary Islands is concerned that, in the annex to the proposal for a regulation, which lists occupations with labour shortages at EU level, there are professions such as table waiters, personal care workers in institutions and various basic jobs in the construction sector, whose lack of coverage is difficult to account for the lack of skilled labour in territories with a high youth and general…

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Above all, it is necessary to contextualise the territorial dimension, beyond the continental EU, in order to balance the capacity of regions potentially receiving high demand for applications that could distort homeostasis in island areas. The Canary Islands have the uniqueness of being an island territory with tourist attractiveness, an international benchmark with an incalculable natural heritage.

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The Government of the Canary Islands, as an outermost region of the EU recognised in Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, with a strategic geographical location on the Atlantic migratory routes, provides the following observations and proposals, based on its direct experience and specific challenges, seeking to strengthen the efficiency of the European border management and return system from a…

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