Alicante businessmen attack the slowness of the administrations

I Provincial Family Business Meeting This Thursday, organized by Aefa on the occasion of its annual meeting, full fledged rap against slowness of management policies and excessive bureaucracy are worrying, especially in a time like now, where there is uncertainty. threatens recovery and all hopes depend on the arrival of European funds. Heads of up to four different business organizations – that of Aefa, Maite Anton; CEV Alicante, Joaquin Perez; of Ineca, Nacho Amirola; and that of the Alicante Chamber, Juan Rivera– condemned during the action obstacles people they always meet when they have to go through certain procedures, paralyzed for years as they warned, it threatens countless projects and even execution.

And all this before the managing director of Generalitat’s Economic Model, Maria Dolores Furiocouldn’t show who he was understanding He promised that they would work to alleviate this burden in the face of the complaints of businessmen, who stated that their criticism was not directed specifically at the Valencia Manager.

Maite Antón had already given a first to the administrations during his first speech. ear pick, making clear the concern that money from Next Generation funds will take longer than expected. “It’s now, not tomorrow fast and agile when we need European funds to reach “To our companies to have the opportunity to consolidate the economic recovery in 2022,” he said. Inheritance tax and donations.

A snapshot from the family business meeting held at El Maestral in Alicante. ALEX DOMINGUEZ


However, when the spark finally took off, it was at the next roundtable meeting where business challenges were discussed in the current economic scenario of extreme complexity and uncertainty. After examining other issues, such as difficulties in finding skilled labor or succession issues in family businesses, it was Joaquín Pérez, president of the employers’ association CEV Alicante, who unplugged it. “As a businessman and CEV chairman, I ask the administrations to be agile. projects that take six years to process. A company in Elche has an investment project of 300,000 square meters, and due to bureaucratic problems, six years have passed and it has not been done yet,” he said. discontinued projects“The businessman insisted.

A complaint that Maite Antón immediately agreed: “We need local, provincial, regional and national governments to avoid cross-regulations between regions that make this impossible. maintain necessary permissionsRecalling that companies “go to the next town or the next community” when they encounter these obstacles, the Aefa president insisted. give up“.

“The feeling is that the wavelength of administrations and businessmen is not the same“Often times if they stay, it’s the employer saying ‘I’m from here,'” he said, noting Nacho Amirola, president of Ineca, who also warned against the risk of companies relocating.

Although Juan Riera, President of the Alicante Chamber, did not attend the roundtable meeting, he insisted on the same issue. “In recent years the number of civil servants increased however, the licensing conditions did not decrease. Everything possible must be done to shorten them,” Riera assured.

Renewable energy example

Faced with criticism from businessmen Economic Model General Manager The Generalitat showed its understanding and highlighted Consell’s efforts to improve the situation. Therefore, in the decree on combating the effects of inflation and war in Ukraine, the Generalitat’s simplified procedures for the initiation of energy projects renewable pointed out that one of the possible ways of working is to expand this initiative to other sectors and projects.

As for other issues covered in the discussion, the head of the Family Business Institute, Andres Sendagoorta, He pointed out that although the current environment is very complex, it is also full of “opportunities”. Thus, for example, the pandemic values ​​the company and the family as “the two pillars of our model of society” and “a brutal weakness keeping supply chains apart“, in the values ​​of many companies responsible for these supplies, both geographically and from the other side of the world.

It also demanded more support from the administrations, such as improving the recipe for family businesses. prevent companies from relocating from surrounding communities to Madrid because of its roots in the region.

And among the problems that threaten this type of company, he noted: lack of entrepreneurial professions In the face of succession and management, which he remembers was responsible for 90% of companies that disappeared or were sold to funds.

He also highlighted problems with talent retention. CEV President Alicante and Soledad Group’s vice president also insisted on this point, noting that there are even companies in their own industry – the tire and vehicle repair industry – coming together to come together. looking for workers in south america Not being able to find mechanics in Spain.

Antón wants a definitive solution for water

Maite Antón, president of the Alicante Association of Family Businesses (Aefa), joined in a request this Thursday by Joaquín Pérez, president of CEV Alicante, to work on a definitive solution to the water problem. As he recalls, the scarcity of this resource not only threatens a “strategic supply chain sector” such as agriculture, but also limits the growth prospects of other sectors. That’s why Antón interpreted his CEV counterpart as “leaving the complaint behind and starting the change”, allowing for “planning and solving this problem once and for all”. On the other hand, Elche’s company reported that Aefa has already reached 167 members after adding 11 members last year.

Source: Informacion

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