Santa Cruz de Tenerife (EFE).- The education commission of the Parliament of the Canary Islands has unanimously approved this Monday the opinion of the proposed law of the Public System of Culture with a nuance: the request to councils and town halls to allocate culture at least 5% of their budgets, which could be unconstitutional.
In this way, the deputies members of the education, universities, culture and sports commission have followed the recommendations of the lawyer, who expressed his surprise at the fact that a piece of information has “crept” into the text, that of the percentage required to corporations, which could be “suspicious of unconstitutionality”.
The text must reach the plenary session with the least amount of conflicting issues, continued the lawyer, who recalled that even the Advisory Council asked to “sweeten” this term so as not to force local corporations to progressively increase their budgets in the cultural field, which It must be done at the discretion of each entity.
The wording of the article in question read: “likewise, the island councils and town halls should progressively tend to allocate to cultural activities and services, as well as to the cultural function, minimum budgetary resources of 5% of their respective general budgets.”
The lawyer advised replacing this wording with that of “corporations will tend to allocate sufficient amounts to cultural services”, which was accepted by the groups.
The bill that will regulate the Public System of Culture provides for, among other objectives, the creation of a Canary Islands Council of Culture, the Strategic Action Framework for Canary Islands Culture and a coordination commission in this area.
It is also expected that the Government of the Canary Islands will establish the Cultural Research and Analysis Service and will create the Digital Cultural Single Window, and the public administrations integrated into the public system of culture of the Canary Islands are entrusted with approving training plans.
The Government is also requested that, within two years from the entry into force of the law, proceed to transform the public company attached to the Culture area of the Government of the Canary Islands, currently called the Canarian Institute of Cultural Development, into the legal figure that is more effective for the performance of the functions that currently appear in the corporate purpose of said company. EFE