“We are evaluating it”: the beach bars have not decided if they will dismantle this winter.

While one of the concessionaires of the beach bars of the contest under suspicion of Formentera has begun the dismantling of the facilities, as required by the specifications, the concession title and the Coastal Regulations, the other seven kiosks have not yet decided whether they will repeat the insubordination that can lead to a fulminant expiration of the operation.

• End of the unity in the insubordination: the historic beach bar of Formentera that renewed the concession ‘in extremis’ begins to dismantle.

The clock is ticking: next January 15 there should be no trace of the presence of the beach bars.

“We are evaluating it,” said Pedro Arribas, head of Kilómetro 11, located in Playa de Migjorn, when asked by La Voz de Ibiza. La Voz de Ibiza. Meanwhile, he declined to make any kind of statement.

For his part, Juanjo Costa, head of the company awarded the beach bar in lot 43 of es Migjorn(Far Away La Mola SL), which changed its name from Amagatai to Amar, replied that “this matter is in the hands of our lawyer“.

He added that “when we have more news, I will let you know”.

However, sources familiar with the sector have remarked that they “no longer have time” to be completely dismantled by January 15, the established deadline.

Especially because most of them are non-detachable beach bars, as the technical report of the Govern was able to establish.

There it is detailed that “at least 3 of them are not removable (Es Pujols lot 24, Es Mitjorn lot 43 and Cala Saona lot 3); 2 would be with conditions (Quiosco Arenals lot 35 and es Copinar lot 27); and only 3 are apparently removable (Arenals lot 38, Es Marí lot 50 and Es Pujols lot 19)”.

• Now the Consell de Formentera recognizes the obligation to dismantle the beach bars.

Insubordination

Last year, this insubordination orchestrated in collusion with the government of Sa Unió at the head of the Consell de Formentera resulted in a derisory fine of 1,500 euros for each of the eight owners, a ridiculous amount compared to the costs of dismantling and reassembling the installations.

However, the complaint of a group of former concessionaires and the Government forced the Conselleria del Mar to open an informative file. As La Voz de Ibiza advanced, the technical and legal reports of the officials left no doubt about the seriousness of the breaches: the concession has to be expired .

• Neither Plan B nor express bidding: beach bars in the air for 2026 in Formentera

Both documents in the possession of this newspaper conclude that “the essential conditions of the concession title have not been complied with” due to different irregularities ranging from the lack of disassembly to accessibility and sanitation problems.

Therefore, “the procedure for the expiration of the concession granted to the Consell Insular de Formentera” must be initiated.

The documentation was transferred to the parties so that they can argue if they consider it appropriate. The next step is the resolution of the Conseller del Mar y del Ciclo del Agua, Juan Manuel Lafuente.

Mandatory disassembly not complied with

One of the most serious offenses included in the report is the failure to remove the kiosks by the legal deadline established between January 15 and February 15, 2025.

• Demolishing report: Formentera’s beach bars on the ropes

• A legal report of the Govern proposes to expire the concession of the beach bars of Formentera.

The report itself states that “the kiosks were not dismantled from January 15, 2025 to February 15, 2025”, and stresses that “there is no record of a dismantling forecast for the same date in 2026”.

As advanced by La Voz de Ibiza, the annual dismantling was an essential condition included in the Ministerial Order of concession and was in the bidding documents. Non-compliance, as indicated, entails the automatic expiration of the concession, as established in Article 79 of the Coastal Law.

Continue reading:

• The report that reveals the complicity of the government of Sa Unió in the Consell de Formentera with the concessionaires of the beach bars.

• Formentera’s ways to avoid a summer without beach bars

• Countdown for Formentera’s beach bars: refusal to dismantle is grounds for immediate termination of the concession

• New insubordination? The beach bars of Formentera question the dismantling this winter

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

• Competition under suspicion: former beach bar concessionaires warn the Consell de Formentera of immediate legal action

• Another serious offense of the beach bars under suspicion in Formentera: they set up a store of caps and hats.

• The dark future facing Formentera’s beach bars: the Govern stifles insubordination

• The seven serious irregularities for which they ask for the nullity of the concessions of the beach bars of Formentera

• Cordoba says that the complicity of Sa Unió in the insubordination of the beach bars will have economic consequences for the Consell de Formentera.

• Chiringuitos agree with Córdoba: economic studies of the bids were out of date

• The ‘dismantling’ of a lie: a prestigious professor warned of the obligation to remove the beach bars included in the bidding documents

• Insubordination in Formentera: Verónica Castelló ignored an allegation against the dismantling of the beach bars that she now wants to avoid.

• Asier Fernández denies Sa Unió and the chiringuitos: “We asked the Govern in October and the answer was ‘we have to dismantle'”.