The vice president of the Government affirmed that the proposal of Regional Legislative Decree, on which he was heard, today, in the commission of General Politics of the Azorean Parliament, aims at bringing together, “in a unique diploma”, the several activities subject to licensing of the town councils.

Talking to the journalists after the hearing, in Ponta Delgada, Sérgio Ávila explained that the standard on the matter is “scattered in different legislations”, stating that the initiative of the Executive “reinforces, simultaneously, the delegation of competences of the municipalities in these subjects”.

Sérgio Ávila pondered that the proposal of the Government comes to simplify the licensing process of activities practised by the autarchies of the Azores.

“With this diploma it is settled in a unique document the several activities exposed to municipal licensing, namely the responsibility of management and inspection in matters such as the moving sales of lottery tickets, the executions of athletic shows and public amusements in the road, among others”, explained the governor, affirming still that the proposal put in perspective will also bring bigger “celerity in the licensing processes and of renovation of the licenses”.

It is a change that, for Sérgio Ávila, is established like “important contribute as part of the administrative modernization”, since “the autarchies start to have access to documents such as the criminal register and the contributive situation of the citizens who wish to ask for permits, avoiding so that the users have to go to several public services to get them”.

Sérgio Ávila still pointed out that the legislative initiative of the Government is part of “the development of a politics of administrative decentralization, in so far as it reinforces the transfer of competences for the town councils, delegating also in the autarchies the possibility of ratifying whenever the legal requirements of the activities at issue are violated, which avoids delays in the process”.