Financial assistance for Medical Kit provision. 2019 Notice

Two types of assistance will be provided: for the initial purchase of medical kits and for replacing them. Both include:

• The medical supplies financed by the National Health System in the formats and quantities required in appendices II and IV (for general antidotes) of Royal Decree 258/1999, of 12 February.
• The medical material, forming part of the mandatory medical kit, detailed in appendix I of the notice resolution.

These subsidies will not cover amounts corresponding to the purchase or replacement of cabinets and containers in which the on-board medical kit is stored.

The amount of the assistance will be determined on the basis of:

1. The regulatory medical kit corresponding to each category of vessel.
2. The allocation specified for each type of medical kit taking into account the number of  workers registered on the boat.

For both types of assistance schemes, initial allocation and replacement, the amount of the subsidy will be:

• Medical Kit A: Sixty-five per cent (65%) of the actual cost of the medicines included in the regulatory medical kit funded by the Social Security and the actual cost of the medical materials included in appendix I of this notice resolution.
• Medical Kit B: Seventy per cent (70%) of the actual cost of the medicines included in the regulatory medical kit funded by the Social Security system and the actual cost of the medical materials included in appendix I of this notice resolution.
• Medical Kit C: Ninety per cent (90%) of the actual cost of the medicines included in the regulatory medical kit funded by the Social Security system and the actual cost of the medical materials included in Appendix I of this notice resolution.
• Life raft medical kit: Ninety per cent (90%) of the actual cost of the medical kit.
• General antidote kit: Sixty-five per cent (65%) of the actual cost of medicines funded by the Social Security system.

The assistance will cover all medical kits on board, which the vessel is required to carry, requested by the beneficiary.

The subsidies may be applied for by employers who operate vessels duly registered or flagged in Spain for maritime shipping or fishing, excluding:

• River navigation.
• Warships.
• Recreational craft used for non-commercial purposes that do not have a professional crew, and
• Tugs sailing in the port area.
  

An employer is understood as the registered shipowner or shipping or fishing company that owns a ship, except if the ship has been chartered with the assignment of nautical management or is managed, in whole or in part, by a natural or legal person other than the registered owner, in accordance with the terms of a management agreement; in this case, the charterer with nautical management or the natural or legal person managing the ship will be considered an employer.

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:

1. 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.
  
  
2. 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.
   
   
3. 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.
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
5. 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.
   
   
6. 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.
   
   
7. 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.

In the year following the awarding of the subsidy, in order to give adequate publicity to the public nature of the scheme, the beneficiaries must place a sticker in a visible place on the main kit of the subsidized vessel as per the model defined in Annex VIII of the notice resolution.

For this purpose, the provincial offices of the Social Marine Institute will provide the subsidy beneficiaries with the corresponding stickers within the month following the date of the resolution.

This notice sets out a single selection and decision procedure. The submission deadline for applications will be one month as of the entry into force of the notice resolution.

The period for submitting applications runs from 14 June 2021 until and including 13 July 2021.