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What do you need to know?
Corresponding authorisation is required to carry out activities in the areas included in the Plan for Areas of Natural Interest (PEIN). Activities requiring authorisation are those related to:
- Camping, overnight stays and summer camps.
- Access to restricted road network.
- Manned and unmanned aerial activities (including drones).
- Research activities.
- Educational, training, artistic and recreational activities.
- Sports competitions and other types of event.
- Use of natural resources (except hunting and fishing resources).
- Bathing outside designated bathing areas.
- Mountain bike activities.
- Organised motorised traffic.
- Creating or modifying signposted circuits or routes, whether equestrian, cycling or other.
- Regulated climbing.
- Caving.
- Water sports (river, sea, lakes, etc.).
- Setting up or improving a climbing route or via ferrata.
- Organised or commercial collective leisure, sporting and adventure activities.
- Production of films, adverts and documentaries and photographic reports.
- Passenger transport for tourism and leisure purposes.
- Any other activity covered by the regulations of the Area of Natural Interest.
Activities that include:
- Filming wildlife outside the areas included in the Plan for Areas of Natural Interest require an Authorisation for the Observation and Graphic and/or Visual Recording of Wildlife Species.
- Climbing and other activities within the Montserrat Mountain Natural Park require an Authorisation for Activities and Services of the Montserrat Mountain Natural Park.
- For diving licences or boat mooring within the Medes Islands Partial Marine Nature Reserve require an Services related to diving and other recreational activities in the Medes Islands Partial Marine Nature Reserve.
This procedure may only be carried out in person if you are a private individual.
If you are an obligated subject, you can only do it online. The documentation you provide through another channel will not be taken into account or computed for the purposes of the submission date.
An application must be submitted for each activity.
Any person, company or organisation that carries out or promotes the activity in the areas included in the Plan for Areas of Natural Interest managed by the Ministry.
Areas in the Plan for Areas of Natural Interest not managed by the Ministry:
The deadlines are set by administrative procedure legislation or, where applicable, by specific applicable law.
It is advisable to submit the application for the authorisation of sporting events six months in advance.
Those wishing to obtain authorisation to transport passengers for tourism or leisure purposes in La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park should submit an application or contact the Natural Park at least five months before the planned date of the activity.
The deadline established for the Cap de Creus Natural Park is three months, in accordance with the provisions of article 21.3 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the common administrative procedure of public administrations. Filming and photographic reports are excepted, with specific regulations, and which are subject to public prices (Order TES/79/2018, of June 20, which approves public prices for the provision of services in the natural spaces of special protection). Once the request is made, an invoice will be issued that must be paid before authorization is obtained. Due to the volume of requests received by the Park, we recommended you to process the request at least one month before the activity takes place.
In Cap de Creus Natural Park, commercial filming or photo shoots are subject to public fees (Order TES/79/2018, of 20 June, approving public fees for the provision of services in natural areas under special protection). Once the application has been submitted, an invoice will be issued and must be paid before authorisation is obtained. In addition, the request must be received by the Park at least one month before the activity is to take place.
For authorisation of other activities, it is advisable to submit the application as soon as possible.
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A map providing sufficient detail and clarity (indicating places or areas where the activity is to take place)
Documentation required, if any -
Route track in GPX format (digital file), including number of events and refreshment points
Documentation required, if any - Rules and internal regulations for the event (federation permission is also required for mountain biking)
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Activity safety plan (sporting events and competitions)
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Environmental information for external persons (Aigüestortes National Park)
Necessary documentation for Aigüestortes National Park -
Script/storyboard (film-, advert- or documentary-making activities and photo reports)
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Programme for the course or educational activity (educational activities)
Document for educational activities -
List of participants: first name, surname(s) and ID card number (caving and camping activities, overnight stays and summer camps)
Document for caving and camping activities, overnight stays and summer camps - Altres documents (si considereu que cal aportar alguna altra documentació)
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List of safety, civil protection and emergency management measures (Aigüestortes National Park)
Compulsory for Aigüestortes National Park - Description of environmental impacts and criteria during the organisation of the event (for mountain walks and races)
This documentation must be attached to the application form you will find in step 1.
You may attach any other documentation you consider necessary in the “Other documents” section of the application form.
The activity must comply with the criteria for the conservation of the site and the accounting of human activities established by the site’s management body.
In addition, it should take into account the special plans for the following natural parks:
- La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park
- Cap de Creus Natural Park
- Els Aiguamolls de l'Empordà Natural Park
- Pla rector d’ús i gestió del Parc Nacional d’Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici.
- Governing use and management Plan of Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant MAurici National Park
List of management bodies:
- Els Aiguamolls de l'Empordà Natural Park
- Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici Natural Park
- Alt Pirineu Natural Park
- Cadí-Moixeró Natural Park
- Cap de Creus Natural Park
- Headwaters of the Rivers Ter and Freser Natural Park
- El Delta de l'Ebre Natural Park
- Els Ports Natural Park
- El Montgrí, les Illes Medes i el Baix Ter Natural Park
- Montsant Natural Park
- Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park
- L'Albera Site of National Interest
- Mas de Melons i Secans de Lleida Natural Reserve
- Poblet Natural Site of National Interest
For all other areas, the managing bodies are the territorial services of the Ministry:
- Territorial Services in Barcelona
- Territorial Services in Girona
- Territorial Services in Lleida
- Territorial Services in Tarragona
- Territorial Services in les Terres de l'Ebre
- Territorial Services in Catalunya Central
The area managing body sets a fee in line with the current order approving public fees for the provision of services in natural areas under special protection.
Consult the areas included in the Plan for Areas of Natural Interest.
This application does not provide exemption from applying for any other authorisation necessary to carry out the activity.
The activity may not be publicised until authorisation is obtained from the Generalitat de Catalunya.
The Natural Park may establish the amount of deposit to be paid depending on the nature of the activity and, in all cases, the amount that the organisers must pay for the maintenance and improvement of the paths. The deposit will be returned to the promoters within a maximum period of ten days after obtaining certification that no damage has been caused. Should there be any such damage, the promoters will be required to repair it within a reasonable time; if not, the deposit will be used to carry out the required actions.
See the document Good Practices when visiting a protected natural area.
Steps to follow
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Step one
Apply
This processed is only available face to face if you are a natural person and, you can be helped in a face-to-face office, where the person who attends you can do the treatment on your behalf, with your consent.
Freelances, trades person, Companies, Organizations and other groups should engage with the public administration through electronic means (Internet).
You must have with idCAT Mòbil or digital certificate for physical person, legal person or linked person.
You can only identify yourself with idCAT Mòbil if you are a natural person.By Internet
Form
Start . Go to FormKeep in mind that:
- Documents required at section “Documentation” should be attached.
- Once you have submitted the form, you will receive an email with the ID code of the procedure. With this data you will be able to track it.
- More information: Support for online processing and tutorial videos on Canal Empresa.
If you have any processing problems, first check the recommendations in the Support section on processing on Tràmits gencat. If the problem persists once you have checked that you have the necessary software and you have followed the instructions, you might check whether there have been any service outages or incidents in the service warnings and outages section of the e-Portal. There you will find details of the type of incident and where it has occurred: search for service incidents for the current year and sort them by ‘Start date and time’ in descending order.
If an incident has actually occurred, and if possible, please wait a few hours before trying to resubmit the form.
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Step two
Check the procedure status
You can check the procedure status:
You can check the procedure status:
- On the Canal Empresa website (using idCAT Mòbil or digital certificate) for the self-employed, professionals, companies, organisations and other groups conducting economic activity.
- In the “Private area” (with idCAT Mòbil or digital certificate), for private individuals.
- In the “Status of my procedures” (with the procedure identifier and the identity card/tax ID number (DNI/NIF)).
- At any Citizen Information Office (OAC), for private individuals.
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Step three
Receiving the government body’s response
How is the response notified?
How is the response notified?
The government body will send you an email stating that you have an electronic notification, which you may access:
- via the link in the email, using:
- digital certificate for the tax ID number (NIF/CIF) used for the procedure
- idCAT Mòbil (requires prior registration)
- one-time password: requiring the tax ID number (NIF/CIF) of the notification addressee and the telephone number or email address provided to the Generalitat as contact details. This information is included in the notification email. If you do not find the message in your inbox, please check your spam folder
- in the “Electronic notifications” section or the Canal Empresa website, using:
- digital certificate for the tax ID number (NIF/CIF) used for the procedure
- idCAT Mòbil (requires prior registration)
- one-time password: you need the previously provided tax ID number (NIF) and the email address or mobile phone number to access the notification
- in the “Private area” personal space in the gencat Procedures or the Canal Empresa websites, using:
- digital certificate for the tax ID number (NIF/CIF) used for the procedure
- idCAT Mòbil (requires prior registration)
- one-time password: you need the tax ID number (NIF) you provided and the email address or mobile phone number to access the notification
You have 10 calendar days to accept the notification once it has been issued. If you have not accessed the notification within this period, it will be considered rejected.
The moment you access the content of the notification, it will be considered to have been carried out.
If you are a private individual and have not asked to interact electronically with the government body, you will also receive notification at the postal address given on the application form, in addition to the electronic notification.
Receiving the government body’s response
If one month has passed since the submission of the application for any of the authorisations regulated by Decree 148/1992, and it has not been granted, the application shall be deemed to have been rejected.
- via the link in the email, using:
