The Hotel Valencia Congress in Paterna hosted on Monday an informational breakfast organized by Valencia Plaza with the City of Paterna to reflect on the future Law on Business Areas of the Community, an initiative of the Regional Goverment that aims to end uncertainty in the regulation of these spaces, which are the cradle of autonomy competitiveness. The attendees also reflected on aid to the entities that manage these space.

Juan Antonio Sagredo, Mayor of Paterna; José María Martínez, Coordinator of Economic Promotion of the City of Paterna; Pedro Romero, Head of the Socio-Economic Promotion Area of the Paterna City Council; Juan Manuel Badenas Carpio, Professor of Civil Law and President of the ICBP; Salvador Puigdengolas, Dean of the Official College of Industrial Engineers of the Valencian Community; Santiago Salvador, president of Asivalco; Joaquín Ballester, Manager of Asivalco; Mª José Mira, Autonomous Secretary of Economic Model and Financing; Noelia Hernández, Industry spokesperson for the PSPV in Les Corts; Antonio Alagarda, President of the Conservation Entity of the Paterna Technology Park; Manuela Pedraza, manager of the Conservation Entity of the Paterna Technology Park; Francisco Izquierdo, Vice President of the Conservation Entity of the Paterna Technology Park; Blanca Marín, Autonomous Secretary for Sustainable Economy; Ana Botella, Deputy for Valencia and Industry Spokesperson for the Socialist Parliamentary Group in Congress; Inmaculada Rodríguez, MEP and spokesperson for the Socialist Delegation to the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade; Diego Romá, Manager of Fepeval; Asun Roselló, Association Manager of the l'Andana Industrial Estate; Elisa del Río, Director of the Technical area of the CEV; Carlos González Triviño, Director of Systems and Applications of Industrial Governance (SAGI); Fernando Mª. Zárraga Quintana,Manager of the Scientific Park of the Universitat de València; Leopoldo Moltó, President of the Tactical Business Park Association; y Toni González, Mayor of Almussafes.

Juan Antonio Sagredo, , Mayor of Paterna, was in charge of opening the debate. The Mayor of the city, defended the importance of a debate on the new legislative initiative of the Consell "to shed light on the doubts that may have been generated".

Regarding the regulations, which are still in the parliamentary process, Sagredo defended that "the decision to bet or not on the business areas cannot be left in the hands of the cities" "It has to be regulated by law so that investment is made in something as vital as these areas. Business areas cannot be the poor neighborhood of municipalities," he said.

The leader also valued the initiatives carried out in his city with the aim of promoting business areas. "At Paterna, we have been pioneers in signing agreements with all of our business areas. We have allowed them to invest the money from the agreement that we have signed with them wherever they want, and this has made it faster and more efficient," he indicated.

José María Martínez, Coordinator of Economic Promotion of the Paterna City Council, defended the courage of the law, which establishes duties for companies installed in industrial areas. "For the law to be really effective in the development of industrial areas, we have to go one step further, which is not to limit ourselves to urban planning issues," he said. On the other hand, the leader regretted the narrow margin that the State leaves to the City Councils to promote certain aspects of their polygons. "Europe is giving a fundamental role to local entities, but we run into competition barriers. This is a serious handicap for certain cities" he said.

Juan Manuel Badenas Carpio, Professor of Civil Law and President of the ICBP, defended that the law is "fully constitutional" in response to the pronouncement of the CJC - assumed by the PPCV, which is preparing an amendment. "The law is frankly well detailed, it is a very good law from a technical point of view," he said, stressing that "the Constitution itself affirms that propiety has a social function".

"We should not be afraid of of the recourse of constitutionality. The preamble of the law is designed to convince of its constitutionality, and it is perfectly well explained. Perhaps it is not so bad that it is appealed, because perhaps it would serve to give magistrates access to it and value it correctly. If in a sentence the TC says that it is perfectly constitutional we would avoid subsequent appeals on a case-by-case basis, "he said, and recalled that" with the regulation of horizontal property, the stir was very similar. "

Mª José Mira, Autonomous Secretary for Economic Model and Financing, stressed that the Valencian Community "comes from a scenario in which there was no criterion for allocating subsidies to business areas." Regarding the possible appeal of unconstitutionality of the PP, the leader was frank: "Of course it is possible to paralyze it, this is politics," she said, although she defended the need for the law and recalled that the popular party was the first to outline their need . "They took the first step, but now we have improved it and they should allow the law to go ahead, because it is a necessity," she said.

Noelia Hernández, Industry spokesperson for the PSPV in Les Corts, stressed that "the law does not establish an obligation of association, but membership in an entity in favor of the business space in which it is located." "It is being sold as if it was an immediate imposition, and this is not the case at all. It takes 25% of the promoters to request the creation of the entity," she said. Finally she recalled that "we are still in the amendment phase of the parliamentary process, we still do not know what the final text of the law will be."

Blanca Marín, Autonomous Secretary for Sustainable Economy, affirmed about the modernization aid that will be implemented by the Regional Goverment "after many years of delay". "The year 2019 will be the year in which we have to provide budgetary aid for the transformation into management entities," she said. About the new law, she justified the ascription to the entities "in order to endow them with economic resources and to be able to pay for their investments".

Ana Botella, Deputy for Valencia and Industry Spokesperson for the Socialist Parliamentary Group in Congress, stressed that "more than 50% of Spain's GDP is created in its industrial areas". "They had to be regulated," she stressed, and affirmed that "if the government goes towards confrontation, we will have to defend our arguments."

<pInmaculada Rodríguez, MEP and Spokesperson for the Socialist Delegation to the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade, called the bill "absolutely necessary". "I find the development of management entities very interesting, it is an interesting model to define public-private collaboration," she said. The leader asked herself about it: "What is the opportunity cost of not having this law?" "We need to get an industrial specialization that allows us to compete internationally and the industrial areas are strategic to achieve a good industrial level," she said.

Salvador Puigdengolas, Dean of the Official College of Industrial Engineers of the Valencian Community, said that "it is a good initiative and you have to bet on it." "It is an incentive for the generation of supply and the generation of quality employment. This law is an opportunity. Industrial areas must be developed in order to attract large companies to the Community," he said.

Joaquín Ballester, Manager of Asivalco, added that "there are services that if not shared would never be applied" and that "wherever they are implemented they work and are among the most satisfactory". "How do you hire private security if it is not in solidarity among all the companies in a business area?" He argued. He also criticized the allocation of subsidies to county entities "that do not take into account the reality of business areas of municipalities that have worked very well as Paterna." "With regional aid you can fall into the gruesome. Aid can be given to local entities that have just become regional to collect and leave out regional entities for not being well defined in their statutes," he said.

Santiago Salvador, President of Asivalco, affirmed that "there are other autonomies waiting to see how the Law works in the Valencian Community to import it into their territories." "Both the municipalities and the entities themselves are very happy," he defended, and regretted that among the critics "there are some who do not pay but enjoy private security." "In the polygons where it is not organized there is chaos, and what the law is about is that it is organized based on a public-private collaboration," he added.

Diego Romá, Manager of Fepeval, spoke in the same line: "Of course there are people who will oppose it, there are people without solidarity, but we believe that this project is very important and that it should be promoted."

For her part, Asun Roselló, Manager of the l'Andana Industrial Estate, defended aid to business areas with the argument that "each association knows the needs of its industrial estate". "If we have associations, it is knowledge of the reality of their polygon. We do not understand the difference between county areas and business areas," she criticized.

p>Elisa del Río, Director of the Technical area of the CEV, defended that business entities "are compatible with merchant associations, which do receive aid." "We have to pay attention to the agreements with the municipalities to make them effective," she added.

Finallye Carlos González Triviño, Director of Systems and Applications of Industrial Governance (SAGI), defended that it is "a necessary law in a context in which many unnecessary regulations are generated", although he criticized that "it suffers from a annex that specifies how the distribution is going to be undertaken, a theoretical approach of greater scope ".