Applications, as well as other documents and communications, will be submitted according to the provisions of articles 14 and 16 of Law 39/2015, of 1 October, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations.
Paper applications will be submitted at the provincial or local offices of the Social Marine Institute where the vessel that applies for assistance for the medical kit has been issued its contribution account code.
The completed application form will be submitted via the electronic registry at the Social Security Electronic Office. Other documentation will be attached as an appendix to the application form.
When the subsidy applicant is a joint ownership or a professional civil society, they must include the relevant appendix indicating the details and signature of all its members. The signature and details of the legal representative of the society or joint ownership entity will appear on the application form.
Applications submitted on the form attached in appendix II will be signed by the interested parties or individuals who accredit that they represent the interested parties by any valid legal means, both for physical and online submission, and must be accompanied by the following documentation:
- Accreditation of the identity of the applicant and/or legal representative.
- If the applicant and legal representative is an individual and opposes the consultation by the Social Marine Institute regarding the identity data held by the Home Office, they must submit the national identity or foreigner identity document.
- If the applicant is a legal entity and it opposes the consultation by the Social Marine Institute regarding the identity data, it must provide a document accrediting the tax identification number of the beneficiary.
- Representation will be accredited by any valid legal means that reliably substantiates this representation pursuant to article 5.4 of Law 39/2015, of 1 October. It may also be accredited by a certificate issued by the relevant Social Marine Institute provincial office.
- Original invoice itemising the expenditure incurred when purchasing the medicines financed by the National Health System that forms part of the mandatory medical kit and/or an invoice detailing the expenditure incurred when purchasing the medical material included in the mandatory medical kit and provided for in appendix I of the resolution, in which each of the products invoiced is listed.
The expense will be accredited with invoices and other equivalent documents valid in legal commercial trade or with administrative effects.
The total cost of the medical kit must feature in the invoice for the life raft.
If a single invoice includes items for the acquisition or replacement of medicines or medical material for different vessels belonging to the same beneficiary, the invoice must specify which items correspond to each vessel. If this is not specified on the invoice, all items will be applied to a single vessel for the purpose of setting the limit determined by the statutory medical kit provision.
Once the awarding procedure has been completed, if they wish, beneficiaries may request the return of any original invoices submitted in paper format taken into account to calculate the subsidy. Prior to their return, these invoices will be marked with a stamp following the model in appendix VII of the notice.
- Life raft inspection certificate issued by a service station approved by the Directorate-General for the Merchant Marine of the Ministry of Public Works, for 2019, when requesting assistance for the initial endowment or replacing statutory medical kits on said rafts. The full replacement of the life raft's medical kit must explicitly feature in this certificate or its appendices.
- Bank certificate stating the beneficiary account holder of the account to which the payment of the subsidy is requested, following the model indicated in appendix IV of the notice.
- Should it oppose consultation on the part of the Social Marine Institute in order to collect data on compliance with tax and Social Security obligations from the Tax Agency and the Social Security Institute, the interested party must submit certificates accrediting that they are up-to-date on these payments.
- When the applicant is a joint ownership or professional civil society, this information will also be collected on each of its members, unless they oppose, in which case they must also submit the relevant certificates for each of the members.
- For vessels registered in 2019, a Medical Kit Inspection Certificate for 2019 issued by the Subdirectorate-General for Foreign Health of the Ministry of Health when applying for a subsidy for the initial medical kit.