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 pharmacological provision financed by the National Health System in the presentations and quantities required in Annex II of Royal Decree 258/1999, of 12 February, in the wording in force at the time the expenditure is made.
• 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.
• Dangerous goods medical kit: 65% of the actual cost of the medical equipment included in Annex I.

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.

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.