We received letter from the Director General of Justice and Home Affairs Board, which announces the draft Law on Public Entertainment, justified in that the existing rules are outdated, without making mention of the difficulties of implementing some of them in terms of the sanctions regime, as with the Royal Decree 2816/1982 of 27 August, which approves the General Police Regulation of Public Entertainment and Recreational Activities , by not having support Law for it. This figure does not mention it.
The current rules are improved, we agree, but we must also say that if approved the new law will be repealed by the current rules established by the Board, not been applied in much of its content and that this is understood there are some examples:
Article 1 of Decree 14/1996 , as amended by el124/1997 says: The exercise of these powers (the Shows Public) are (currently) the Minister of Public Administration and Finance, the Director General of Justice and Interior and Territorial Directors of the Board of Extremadura.
article 2 lists the powers of the Director which are
1. Management, impulse, senior management and coordination of the exercise of the powers. And approval of plans of action and coordination with other government in this matter.
2. Approve the rules of organization and operation of company records and entertainment venues.
3. Determine the general schedule of public entertainment.
4. Those other than those provided in this article.
Not including bullfights, we did not know that there was some action plans that in this area. Neither the rules of organization and operation of enterprises and local records. Currently, each time we present a complaint, consult the City if the establishment complained, and that such holder has been granted permission, without having provided any data from which they have been requested by an association on facilities and rates license under that act, which should be reflected in that the recording. In particular, only the order was issued hours.
As the Director General of Justice and Interior, has awarded the following:
Adopt police surveillance exercise to suspend or prohibit entertainment, contest municipal agreements on licensing. These skills are still unimplemented.
What has approved every year, is the extension of hours, well, the suspension of restrictions on working hours, ie, they can stay open public facilities as long as they see fit, during Christmas and Carnival.
Regarding disciplinary proceedings have been opened files, but because of complaints of this Association and Caceres noise and affected neighbors also the high for the local police to justify the intervention of the City, but drifting violations of the Junta de Extremadura and not denouncing those provided in the Ordinance on noise, for which offenses they observe silence during these visits.
should be noted that we do not get into the actions carried out in bullfighting.
In the above we must add, it is not possible to exert some effective powers without the authority to which you are assigned, enforced by This requires the existence of a police force to monitor compliance inspections and all this time police have been acting as such for the subject of public entertainment.
We've complained to the Director of Public Administration and Finance, who in a letter dated 10 February this year we have indicated that the National Police is the corresponding fulfilling this task, but not before and now, after our paper has been any police to enforce the rules of public events, unless the excess time to those who have been forced to speak the local police, because the celebration concert without a license has been occasionally punished as a result of complaints of the injured and also presented by the Associations mentioned.
Regarding disciplinary proceedings, it must be said that difficulties in processing times and other non-performance by the Directorate General of Finance, have no effect practical and follow the defaults, because these actions did not persuade the offenders and is cost effective and immune repeated failure without fear.
you follow the same route the new law?. For all this we are skeptical. We propose to the authorities to which they are going to allocate those powers, which first made purpose of amendment.
Lord Chief, Director General of Justice and Interior, the Directors of the Regional Government of Extremadura, come at the beginning of his term and remember the phrase that you swore or pledged: " Comply with and enforce the laws. " The great secret to the real existence of the rule of law.
