Cámara Orihuela urges the City Council to reopen the Antena de la Costa to serve companies

Cámara Orihuela wants to recover the work that until a year ago was developed with the coastal companies in the Local Antenna that was installed at the time, by virtue of an agreement with the City Council, in the municipal offices of Playa Flamenca. Since the cameral institution, which has been dozens of entrepreneurs of the Coast who claim the reopening of the Antenna, it is recalled that the agreement by which it was agreed to provide this service in exchange for a place where it is possible to continue vigor, as well as the rest of the agreements signed with the Consistory, since they can not be rescinded by any of the parties while there is an economic debt between them, as is the case.

The closing of the Local Antenna of Orihuela Costa supposes that around a thousand signatures settled in the coast, as well as others of nearby municipalities that for convenience used these facilities created precisely to bring the cameral services to the peripheral areas, see forced to move to the city of Orihuela to perform procedures that could previously be done just a few kilometers from their headquarters, which is a waste of money, and therefore of time, unnecessary taking into account that Chamber Orihuela currently has sufficient staff and trained to restart that office. According to the data of the institution, each year an average of three hundred demands were attended by companies and entrepreneurs who received both advice and the provision of services related to their activity (bulletins, certifications, consultation on internal and external trade, creation of companies and training, among other services and consultations).

The eviction of the facilities occurred after the dismissal of all the employees of Cámara Orihuela in the stage prior to the arrival of Mario Martínez to the presidency, which led to the unilateral decision of the Consistory to vacate the Local Antenna office without give any option to the Chamber to now have a place to serve a number of entrepreneurs that accounts for 30% of the total business census of the municipality. “These are services for the companies of Orihuela that are not being provided in the appropriate place,” says the president of the Chamber of Commerce, Mario Martínez, who adds that the part corresponding to the entity cameral, “which is not another to make an effort to staff that office, is done, but now we need the City to comply with what you sign, “he said in relation to the agreement.

Martinez has insisted that the Local Antenna of the Coast attended 30% of the activity of Chamber Orihuela and has considered that “if it is wanted to recover the population that has been lost in our coast and its economic weight in the set no longer of the municipality, but of the region and the province, the formula is to favor the creation of companies, “something that in his opinion is not achieved if what is done is to subtract services such as the Local Antenna, which were lent” and that they have run out of space to carry it out. ” A claim that has also been transferred to Orihuela Chamber by the OC Avanza collective, who have also collected about a hundred signatures to request the reopening of the service.

A proximity service

With the loss of the Local Antenna of Orihuela Costa, a proximity service for SMEs and companies has been eliminated, the main vocation of these peripheral offices set up more than a decade ago by the Higher Council of Chambers within the development programs of the European Social Fund and that while it has worked not only has had the activity of the parent chamber, in this case the oriolana, but with exclusive activity as the Single Business Window (VUE) and the possibility of establishing a Local Economic Observatory to diagnose the needs and concerns existing between small and medium-sized companies in a specific area in order to propose measures and solutions adapted to their territorial peculiarities, which in the case of Orihuela Costa are many with respect to the urban area of ​​the city.