A invoice which can switch the correct to challenge licenses to increase the working hours of leisure facilities from the related Districts to the Deputy Minister of Tourism is being superior earlier than the Council of Ministers which shall be an interim resolution till the preparation of the laws for wider modifications within the context of the operation of catering services and leisure of the place.
This outcomes from what the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Kostas Koumis, mentioned at this time throughout a press convention on the present scenario and challenges of tourism.
Recording the priorities of the Deputy Ministry of Tourism when it comes to the modernization of the legislative framework for issues associated to tourism, he initially referred to the preparation and promotion of the “On the Institution and Operation of Catering and Leisure Areas Legislation of 2024” with the intention, as he mentioned, of addressing any gaps and weaknesses are presently discovered within the present legislative framework. With the last word objective, he added, to enhance the competitiveness of the tourism product within the catering sector, in addition to the regulation of public leisure and public security. It’s estimated that the brand new framework may even regulate the working hours of recreation facilities, a matter which is presently regulated by the Recreation Facilities Legislation, which has been in pressure for many years.
So as, nonetheless, to finish the prevailing disparity across the hours, the Deputy Ministry, as talked about, will rapidly promote an modification to the prevailing laws, the Leisure Facilities Legislation, in order that any extension of the hours supplied for within the laws – for varied causes – shall be accomplished by a call of the Deputy Minister Tourism and never from the Districts. “For the needs of uniform differentiation of the designated hours of operation of the recreation facilities, the place that is required, this shall be accomplished by choice of the Deputy Minister as a substitute of the related Prefect and after a related proposal of the affected native authority” mentioned Mr. Koumis, stating that on this path he’ll there shall be an modification to subsection 2, article 19, of the Leisure Facilities Legislation and that the related invoice shall be introduced earlier than the Council of Ministers very quickly, apparently to settle the difficulty earlier than the summer season.
Paragraph 2 of article 19, which in paragraph 1 defines the opening hours for all leisure facilities, particularly states the next:
“a) Any extension or discount of the working hours of the facilities decided pursuant to subsection (1) of this text is supplied just for a time period that doesn’t exceed 6 months every time and after a particular allow for this function, issued by the Province of the province inside boundaries of which the middle is situated, if there are particular causes”
(b) The related Province could, as at any time throughout the interval of validity of a particular allow, after receiving the opinions of the Group, revoke or modify it.