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47 flights will arrive from next Monday until June 27, loaded with German tourists who already dream of spending a few days in the Balearic Islands . Tourism returns to Spain and returns without quarantine, but with a pilot test that aims to assess whether the opening of the borders is feasible and safe.

The Official State Gazette has published a ministerial Order that regulates the authorization of the pilot program to open safe tourist corridors in the Balearic Islands starting next Monday , June 15 . This program will allow tourists to enter this autonomous community from Member States or Schengen Associated States through specific area routes.

The objective of this pilot program is to verify the functioning of the model of lifting temporary controls on internal borders and the recovery of freedom of movement . To do this, a Monitoring Committee will be established that will meet every two days and whose decisions will be made by consensus. Said Committee shall be composed of representatives of the Ministry of Health, the Secretary of State for Tourism , AENA , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , the European Union and Cooperation and the competent bodies in matters of Health and Tourism of the autonomous community of the Islands. Balearic Islands .

The tourist traveling must reside in the same State in which the airport of origin is located, which must have the same rate of infected people per 100,000 inhabitants as the destination and for the same period of time.

The most striking thing is that tourists will not have the obligation to keep the quarantine period but they must be able to provide proof of the round trip ticket as well as the accommodation for the entire period of stay, which may not be less than five nights .

For their part, the origin and destination airports, as well as the airlines that are going to make the flights, must be part of the Voluntary Monitoring Program for the Implementation of the EASA Operational Protocol for Covid-19 or have implemented the recommendations of the European Union Agency for Aviation Safety (EASA), from June 15 or from the moment they are going to make the flights. In addition, said companies must report the maximum number of daily places they intend to market.

Airlines also have to provide the public health form to locate passengers . And, once at the arrival airport, the Foreign Health personnel will be in charge of carrying out the necessary sanitary controls, which will include documentary control.

For its part, the active monitoring of tourists will correspond to the autonomous community and will be carried out through telematic monitoring of their symptoms. In this way, possible cases of coronavirus can be identified and isolated .

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