It will practically be within the discount period, but Consell and Redován and Orihuela’s concessionaires are about to sign an agreement under which Technical Vehicle Inspection (ITV) service can be resumed in Vega Baja starting this Saturday. Since the final fringes are not specified, they are currently on the table Seven-year lease of facilities where mobile units of Elda, Novelda and Pilar de la Horadada will also continue to operate. Generalitat, after this agreement, will assume the 160 employees of all these stations and continue to directly manage the service..
The Ministry of Sustainable Economy is finalizing the procedures for the ITV reversal of the entire Valencian Community, a process that will be completed in two installments, the first this week and the second next week. Well, the first package contains the crates of Redován and Orihuela, most difficult to solve, since concessionaires receive authorization directly from the Ministry of Industry.. This means that they should not be affected by the return, as they own and defend their own facilities.
In this regard, the positions between both parties have been converging in recent days until the foundations of an agreement are laid, of which only a few details should be mentioned. The main point that forms the axis of the agreement is a seven-year lease. both station buildings and equipment that provides vehicle inspection service..
Ricardo Pérez, chairman of the board of the Redován and Valencia Community of Vehicle Technical Inspection Concession Stations Association (Aecova-ITV), assures that the deal has actually come to an end and that it is a result. his words, responsibility. “We had to negotiate against time, and in the end, out of responsibility, we were able to reach an understanding that would allow us to continue to provide the service as normal.both at central stations and at mobile stations, which is what really interests the public,” he claims.
The agreement, the figures of which have not yet been disclosed, It establishes the obligation of concessionaires to replace equipment that may be damaged.as well as maintaining electricity and supply contracts as long as they replace them, among others. “Ultimately, it emphasizes that what is leased is not just a facility, but inspection centers in operation”.
So the singularity of these stations is that in this case dependencies and equipment will remain private while the rest will become public for all purposes. This is not the case, which will be assumed by the Ministry of Economy from Saturday after the workers have been transferred. The rates will also be the same as those in force in the Community of Valencia as a whole..
Alcoy, Benidorm, Torrevieja and Villena are closing this Saturday
Alcoy, Benidorm, Torrevieja and Villena ITV stations will remain closed next Saturday, just one day after their concessions expire. As Josep Albert Quilis, director of the Valencian ITV Society, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Economy, explained, this day will be used for technicians to take inventory of the facilities and verify that everything is ready to resume service on Monday. already with the public administration. Redován and Orihuela stations, on the other hand, will operate this Saturday because the only thing that changes with the lease will be the ownership of workers who will become dependent on Generalitat.
Alicante and Elche stations, whose concession expires on the 3rd, will be the same next week, and on the 4th, which coincidentally coincides with a Saturday, they will close to carry out the inventory. The reopening will be on the 6th.
Residents of Calp, El Campello and Santa Pola will have to wait a little longer to re-open. The first municipality’s mobile unit will be out of service this Friday and we’ll have to wait for Consell to replace it with another. In the case of El Campello and Santa Pola, they will stop working on March 3 and they will also need to be replaced.