Formentera’s controversial chiringuitos are at stake after a summer of serious infractions

The chiringuitos of the contest under suspicion of Formentera continue to add sufficient and documented reasons to suffer a rescission of the concession as a result of the irregularities product of irregularities and serious breaches of the terms of the tender.

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Although the series of non-compliances is extensive, evident and is registered in different official records, there are several concessionaires who are at risk of losing the operating authorization, only if the files reported by the Consell Insular are taken into account. The fact is that the specifications establish that, in case of reaching three serious infractions, they lose the concession.

Violations and details

In this context, this week the consistory disseminated the details of the the details of the inspection campaign for the 2025 summer season: 168 infractions in the beach authorizations, which has resulted in penalties totaling 120,088 euros. Of the 32 authorized lots, only three closed the summer without incidents. The rest were penalized by the Consell.

According to the technical report of the Inspection area, of the detected infractions, 80 are minor, 80 are minor, 72 serious y 16 very serious.

The latter include infractions related to the lack of personnel and lack of personnellack of lifeguards in certain stretches and, in the most serious cases, reservation of hammocks or provision of unauthorized services.

It should be noted that the report has been left out of this report to the beach bars and sailing schools, on which the greatest suspicions are posed. From the Consell have explained to La Voz de Ibiza that these files are on “the authorizations of beaches. That is, sunbeds and umbrellas. The beach bars, which are concessions, are not there”.

However, they have advanced that inspections have been carried out and that“they are being processed“.

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When asked by this media, they added that “these files are being processed”, although they avoided giving details. In addition, the Councilor for the Environment, Verónica Castelló, has said in plenary that some serious and very serious faults have been detected among the beach kiosks.

Three serious offenses: revocation of the license

Although more than one of the current concessionaires would be above the three serious offenses, which would imply the revocation of their title, several of them are now on the expiration of the title, several of them are now on the edge of the.

It is that the eight beach bars already face an open file for the insubordination of not dismantling last winter. Now it appears that some of them also face proceedings for serious infringements.

In addition to all this, there is also a new insubordination in the making, since some concessionaires have unofficially let slip their intention not to dismantle again for a month, as determined by the General Coastal Regulations, the concession title and the bidding documents.

This decision has a certain “logic”, at least from an economic point of view. Since the structures cannot be dismantled -which also violates all the regulations in force-, the concessionaires themselves have acknowledged that the dismantling-assembly operation would take three months and cost 50,000 euros.

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On the other hand, the Consell Insular has applied a derisory fine of 1,500.01 euros as a fine for the insubordination, a bargain with respect to the costs that the owners1,500.01 euros, a bargain with respect to the costs calculated by the owners to dismantle for a month and reassemble between January 15 and February 15, as established by the Consell Insular itself.

Now the risk is greater: three serious infractions imply the loss of the concession. Although for that the interpretation of the secretary of the Consell, Angel Custodio Navarro , must mediate.

A surreal scenario

At this point, the scenario of the chiringuitos is surreal and bordering on scandalous.

Failure to dismantle the plant will result in the loss of the concession. This is established in the concession title of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge granted through the Directorate General for the Coast and the Sea to Consell Insular de Formentera to concession some 907 square meters of maritime-terrestrial public domain for beach services facilities in several beaches of Formentera.

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However, the Conselleria del Mar y Ciclo del Agua has been processing the file for nine months without giving details of the same.

At the end of last month, the President of the Govern Marga Prohens limited herself to saying in the Parliament that the sanctioning sanctioning procedure is still in progress and that it is an issue that “worries and occupies this Governbecause we are perfectly aware of the importance of the beach kiosks in Formentera”.

“The Government is processing a file, is a dossier that is in progressThe new law will be processed in accordance with the procedure provided. And it will be processed according to the foreseen procedure”, remarked Prohens in the Parliament.

Beyond these, several chiringuitos already have in their debit account several infractions of serious non-compliance recorded in minutes, whose files of incoaction have not been processed at the time due to the lack of Governing Board.

In any case, these acts are not time-barred since, in the case of the kiosks, they are administrative concessions.

They must disassemble, are they going to disassemble?

According to sources consulted by La Voz de Ibiza, the current concessionaires are already clear that this year they must dismantle the structures. The fact is that it is not possible to modify the authorization title since there is an ongoing file due to the complaint made by the previous concessionaires, which would be resolved in February.

Until this file is closed, it is not possible to move forward with a change in the enabling title.

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In addition, it also transpired that the concessionaires have traveled to Palma de Mallorca to make the respective consultations in the Conselleria del Mar y Ciclo del Agua. And the answer they have received is conclusive: there is no possibility of not dismantling.

For this reason, some owners are already analyzing the possibility of complying with the regulations this time. According to La Voz de Ibiza, at least two dealerships have advanced that they will remove the structures this winter.

Will they install the same structures again or this time will they place removable modules, as determined by the Coastal Regulation? Furthermore, in case of dismantling and reassembling, will they be installed again in an irregular way in flood zones as they are currently without respecting the minimum distance from the shore at high tide?

All documented

This accumulation of irregularities and illegalities, which has been documented by La Voz. La Voz de Ibiza for almost a year and that the Consell officials know to perfection and that began with the changes of criteria during the awarding process, which are not attributable that are not attributable to the successful bidders, range from:

• Absence of the minutes of the staking out process
• Lack of certified lifeguards and deficiencies in personnel qualifications
• Excessive occupation of beacheswith the installation of umbrellas and hammocks in unauthorized areas.
• Deliberate favored deals
• A sailing school operated all season despite the fact that it had a permit denied by the Govern
• Installation in flood zones
• Buried pipelines in protected dunes
• Installed non-detachable beach bars
• The insubordination to the obligation to disassemble

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