On July 27, 2022, the constitutive meeting of this Statutory Commission took place, which continues, however, the work of the previous Bilateral Commission of Cooperation Administration of the State – Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands already constituted on March 12, 1990.
The Bilateral Commission is made up of six members of each party and its chairmanship will correspond, alternatively and for annual periods of time, to the persons holding the chairmanship of each of the representations. The Permanent Secretariat of the Bilateral Commission will be jointly exercised by the persons designated, one representing the Government of Spain and the other representing the Government of the Canary Islands.
by Order TER/1188/2022, of November 17, the new Internal Regulations for the Functioning of the Bilateral Commission for Canary Islands-State Cooperation are published (BOE No. 289, of December 2, 2022), agreed at the aforementioned constitutive meeting of July 27, 2022. It entered into force on the same day as its publication in the BOE. Within the framework provided in its Internal Operating Regulations, the Bilateral Commission may:
(a) To promote and concretize, from the bilateral point of view, the implementation of plans, programmes and joint actions for the development of common policies in the various sectoral areas.
(b) To encourage the conclusion of cooperation agreements in those material areas where it is necessary to specify a joint plan or programme on a bilateral basis.
(c) To devise mechanisms for mutual collaboration in the various areas in which the activities of both administrations can converge.
d) Servir de cauce de actuaciones de carácter preventivo en el intento de impedir que surjan conflictos entre ambas Administraciones.
(e) To make proposals for solutions to questions of interest to both Administrations in matters within their competence.
(f) To analyse the rules with the rank of law, State or autonomous, in relation to which questions may be raised that may give rise to an appeal of unconstitutionality, with a view to reaching an agreement to prevent their application, within the framework of article 33 of Organic Law 2/1979 of 3 October 1979 of the Constitutional Court.
(g) To consider any matters affecting both parties and, in particular, those aimed at avoiding or attempting to resolve conflicts of competence through an extra-procedural means.
