Turismo's draft regulation for private rentals to be unveiled this Monday, 10 November

[Janet]

Canarian tourism minister Ricardo Fernández de la Puente will present on Monday the draft clauses for the regulation of private rentals which is forming part of the first-year revision of the tourism law. As I posted HERE, the regional government had agreed with Ascav to include regulation by the end of this year, benefiting both from appearing to concede to local demands for private letting, and from complying with national requirements to incorporate specific regulation in regional legislation. The lack of such regulation meant that the Canarian government had unwittingly put private rentals into a legal limbo, and Turismo is keen to rectify the omission.

It will be fascinating to see what this draft includes, but already we are being told that it will be modelled on - but not the same as - existing private rental legislation in the Balearics and Catalonia, and that which is planned in Andalucia. Moreover, it will involve some sort of registration system with a number to be used in all circumstances of rental activity, and a series of conditions to be met before properties can be registered. It remains to be seen how loose or restrictive these conditions will be, but for now, the Turismo minister has said that it was never going to be possible to please everyone, but that the government was attempting to get as much of a consensus as possible between the varying competing groups of the private rental sector and commercial tourism and hotel interests.

He continued that he was convinced that it was better for the sector to be regulated, controlled, and where guarantees were offered to customers, but also where legitimate business could not be undermined by unfair competition. After the draft has been unveiled, there will be the standard "public consultation" involving all tourism interest groups, including hotels, businesses, ayuntamientos, etc. The promise of regulation by the end of the year will be fulfilled, though it will be draft rules that are ready in time, not the final decree. JA

[Janet]

As posted above, and as promised before the end of the year, the draft regulation – a requirement of urban letting legislation – which affects private tourism lets in the Canaries is now available. I have just received it from José Escobedo, and am posting it before I've really even had a chance to look at it in detail, let alone translate it. Please bear with me, but I thought many would appreciate seeing it at the earliest opportunity.

The link to the pdf file is in my post HERE.

[Janet]

Here's an English translation of the draft regulation. Please note that this is my own translation, and so as such it is not "official" (it is also my copyright!). I have tried to make it sensible in English, whilst conveying the actual spirit of the wording. Please do bear in mind that it is not only an unofficial translation, it is also regulation in draft – this is what we could call "a working document".

[El Profesor]

  big job

[Delderek]

I think you are going to be asked so many unanswerable questions for weeks to come.

[Janet]

 

[NAH]

Good job Janet, that's going to take me a while to read through that.

Interesting that the kitchen must contain a coffee maker but no mention of a kettle. I know it's only the English that drink so much tea and need a kettle 

[Janet]

it's an interesting point, just consider how expensive kettles are here ... and how few teabags are actually sold, apart from in "British supermarkets" ...

[poker]

There wont be mutch rentels or sales to Russians anymore as the Rubble has imploded . The end probably of the canarian dream of the Russian ( bigg) tourist market.

[Perikles]

There wont be mutch rentels or sales to Russians anymore as the Rubble has imploded . The end probably of the canarian dream of the Russian ( bigg) tourist market.

You might well be wright. The Ruble is now rubble.