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The TSJ of Galicia maintains the use of the covid certificate in access to the interior of the hotel industry and nightlife venues in Galicia by rejecting the very precautionary measures presented by the Lugo Monumental Business Association. Clearly, the Galician Supreme Court reasons that in all the measures adopted by the Board, including the use of the COVID certificate, "there is an underlying interest in avoiding the crowding of people [...] and, ultimately, in

protecting public health

dealing with outbreaks and existing transmission chains. "

The car of the TSJ of Galicia has been known this Friday, minutes after the dictated by the TSJ of Cantabria with a different result. In Cantabria, yesterday Thursday,

the Cantabrian Hospitality Business Association (AEHC) appealed the latest resolution of the Ministry of Health

that raised from 19 to 27 municipalities to risk level 3 and, therefore, the covid certificate was required for the access to the interior of restaurants and entertainment venues.

Well, the TSJ of Cantabria explains in its order today that it suspends the resolution of the counseling because it does not agree with the criteria to pass levels and, therefore, renders the use of the COVID certificate for the hospitality industry ineffective.

The order of Cantabria explains that it

adopts the very precautionary measure of suspension "in view of the alleged deficiencies

, with respect to the way of evaluating and classifying the municipalities, and of setting the alert levels."

Is there harm to the hospitality industry?

The TSJ of Galicia

does not admit that there is "urgency"

to suspend the application of the COVID certificate, "since the specific damage inflicted on the recurring hospitality association or its irreparable nature has not been proven," the order says. While the TSJ of Cantabria justifies the suspension in "

the obvious irreparable damages for the companies engaged in the activity that is the object

of the recurring association, undoubted personal and economic damage, which this Chamber has always considered notorious, and which is affected by the limitations that alert level 3 causes ", among which is the use of the COVID certificate to access the interior.

Now,

the Cantabrian administration has three days to allege what it deems appropriate in relation to the lifting

, maintenance or modification of the urgent precautionary measure agreed by the court.

In any case, in the coming days both the Cantabria and Galicia TSJ should make a definitive statement on the issue, although there may be new health decisions, both in Galicia and Cantabria, that make it meaningless to resolve the previous ones.

Canary Islands background

These latest resolutions on the use of the covid certificate to access the interior of the hotel industry are preceded by the one adopted by the

Supreme Court of the Canary Islands

. On July 29, the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands took down in a precautionary manner the requirement of the COVID certificate to be able to access the interior of the hotel and restaurant establishments. The Canarian court admitted the appeal presented by

the Círculo de Empresarios y Profesionales del Sur de Tenerife and by the Asociación Hostelería Unida Tenerife (HUT

) for the precautionary suspension of said certificate.

Also, in this context, it is necessary to place the request for information that the

Spanish Agency for Data Protection

has requested from Galicia and the Canary Islands, as announced on July 30.

A requirement that has only deepened doubts about the legal viability of this instrument to control the capacity and transmission of the virus inside the establishments.

Andalusia, waiting

On the other hand, the Junta de Andalucía awaits a response from the justice to apply the covid certificate in its hospitality industry.

Last Tuesday, the spokesman for the Junta de Andalucía and counselor of the Presidency,

Elías Bendodo explained that

the objective is "to have the maximum legal security" to be able to apply this measure,

"as has been done during all the months of the pandemic" .

In the current scenario, it

is difficult to predict the response that the Andalusian Supreme Court will give, but if

the deadlines are met, the next few days should be known.

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