All those practicing extreme sports, both at sea and in the mountains, or leaving to undertake a leisure activity by ignoring the extreme weather warnings must bear the expenses incurred by their rescue. Starting next June, the Basque Government will turn their operating bills, the cost will be established by the hour: 37 euros for each actor involved and 2,200 hours each way to stay in operation the helicopter. The Interior Department, therefore, has appealed to the mountaineers and athletes in general to federate and benefit from the coverage that provides insurance.
Thus, a rescue environment, with a duration of two hours and ten officers involved, you can go to negligence on more than 5,000 euros. But the cost can shoot up stratospheric numbers, depending on the magnitude of the operation and the time spent deployed. Interior has taken this step after receiving a "steady increase" in demand of 112 calls, and with a dual purpose: as a matter of "distributive justice" of public resources and to avoid the security forces' unnecessary risks. " Today, SOS Deiak coordinating a rescue operation in the mountains every other day, on average, effective emergency rescues performed at year 98 and 81 searches, accounting for public funds an annual expenditure of about three million euros.
The Executive intends to adopt in June the new Law on Public Fees and Prices, which collected all the cases and activities in which to run the recovery. The measure, still in draft, will affect all sports. But anyone who engages in negligent conduct, for example, a person who stroll through the forest while ignoring the orange or red alert for bad weather or ride jet skis without the proper equipment. In principle be left out those who, through no fault, can become disoriented or injured. Also exempted those who suffer mental disorders, children under 16 and those who die.
insurance every mountaineer federate automatically subscribes to cover all costs of rescue and medical care. For this reason, the Deputy Minister of Interior, Arroiabe Raul Fernandez, who appeared yesterday at a press conference with the Director of Emergency and Meteorology, Peter Anitua, encouraged the athletes to get a license. "If you drive a vehicle requires us to take out insurance, because of the risk we run in the road, the practice of these sports should be accompanied by an insurance to cover any possible contingency," he argued.
87% without federate
is likely, therefore, that the federation received in the coming weeks an avalanche of requests for new partners to obtain the appropriate license in the case of mountain climbing, can cost a maximum of EUR 124 per year. Interior makers estimate that the 60,000 hikers who frequent the Basque mountains, only half are federated. According to statistics, 87% of people rescued in the last decade did not have the membership card sporting body. And for the remaining 13%, surprisingly, the Administration has never claimed to insurers the cost of operations. "The debate is not whether paid or not, because all redemptions are paid. The debate is who pays: If you must do one that assumes the risk or the practice of all citizens ", stated Fernández de Arroiabe.
To justify these measures, the Interior responsible for balance sheet data presented emergency on the mountain over the past 15 years, which established that since 1996 has doubled the number of performances due to some ' massification 'of the mountain. Most of those rescued hiking, from marches to hiking. Falls are the cause of the majority of the rescues, and losses or disorientation, search. In six out of ten transactions, the man concerned, which is 75% of the cases, was unhurt, while 6% of them died. Summer and weekends bring together most of the rescues, which are distributed equally among the three provinces, but the bulk was played out Gorbea massif.
In principle, the proposal will be supported by the PP, which welcomed an initiative to "put an end to the reckless behavior of many people who took to the mountains without considering the consequences," said Congressman Carlos Urquijo. A lack of detailed knowledge of the bill, believe that popular makes sense, as an "educator", the need to be insured for risk practices.
But this idea is not groundbreaking: Catalonia and Asturias have passed similar legislation while other communities such as Cantabria, Castilla y León Valencia, is under study. In Europe, the collection also includes Switzerland, Germany and Austria. In Italy the transport costs are paid by the concerned whether it is free, while in France for ransom sanctions are not justified.
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