a) Presentation by entrepreneurs of unilateral public offers of adhesion to the Consumer Arbitration System.
b) Resolution on the public offer of adhesion and, where appropriate, granting of the adhesion badge to the Consumer Arbitration System.
c) Denunciation of a public offer of adhesion by the employers.
General information
- Regional ministry
- Consejeria De Industria, Empleo, Innovacion Y Comercio
- Governing board
- Direc. General De Comercio Y Consumo (DIR3: A06029673)
- Classification
- Declarations and communications from interested parties
- Subject(s)
- Enterprises
- Consumption
- Starting way
- Interested
- Target
- Legal entities, self-employed persons and registered professionals
- Subject to fees
- No
- Languages in which the procedure can be completed
- Spanish.
- Allow power of attorney
- Yes
- Links to web pages with specific information
- Type
No links are included
Requirements
The employer shall formulate in writing and through electronic means a public and unilateral offer of adhesion to the Consumer Arbitration System.
The offer of adhesion must indicate whether it is opted for arbitration to be decided in equity, in law or indistinctly at the consumer's choice, as well as the period of validity of the offer. In the event that none of these extremes are recorded, the offer will be understood to have been made in equity and for an indefinite period.Entrepreneurs who have the status of natural persons and carry out different sales or services activities in different establishments, or through distance selling through different channels, must clearly identify in the membership offer the activity or activities for which they make the offer.
Public offers of adhesion made to the Consumer Arbitration System may be denounced before the competent Arbitration Board by the entrepreneur or representative with sufficient power to dispose, either in writing or by electronic means. The denunciation shall take effect one month after the date of its communication to the Arbitration Board, unless a longer period is established in the public offer of adhesion or in the denunciation.
The denunciation shall not affect arbitration agreements validly concluded prior to the date on which the denunciation of the offer of membership must take effect.
Deadlines and submission
- Deadline for submission
Permanently open.
Denunciations of offers of adhesion shall take effect one month after the date of their communication to the Arbitration Board, unless a longer period is established in the public offer of adhesion or in the denunciation and shall not affect arbitration agreements validly entered into prior to the date on which the denunciation of the offer of adhesion must take effect.- Submission deadline start date
- 06/05/2025
- Submission deadline end date
- -
- Periodicity
- Continuous
- Means of submission
- Online and in person
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- Online submission
- At the General Electronic Registry
- Art. 14. 2 of the Law 39/2015, of 1 October, of the Common Administrative Procedure of the Public Administrations, establishes the obligatory nature of the electronic management for certain subjects as, for example, a) The juridical persons, b) Entities without legal personality, c) Those who carry out a professional activity for which compulsory membership is required, for the procedures and actions they carry out with the Public Administrations in the exercise of said professional activity. In any case, within this group, notaries and property and mercantile registrars shall be included. d) Those who represent an interested party who is obliged to relate electronically with the Administration, e) The employees of the Public Administrations for the procedures and actions that they carry out with them due to their condition of public employee, in the form in which it is determined by regulation by each Administration.
- Place(s) for in-person submission
Legal persons:
General Electronic Register of the Administration of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria at the electronic address https://sede.cantabria.es/Individuals:
General Electronic Register of the Administration of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria at the electronic address https://sede.cantabria.es/, or in any of the places provided for this purpose in article 134.8 of the Law of Cantabria 5/2018, of 22 November, on the Legal Regime of the Government, the Administration and the Institutional Public Sector of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria, and in Article 16.4 of Law 39/2015, of 1 October, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations.
Required documentation
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP. Application for Membership of the Consumer Arbitration System. Word and pdf formats.
Mandatory
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Processing and resolution
- Instructor board
- Consumer Arbitration Board of the A.C. of Cantabria.
- Attributive rule
- Decree 11/2019, of 21 February, which establishes the Organic Structure and partially modifies the List of Jobs of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Tourism and Commerce.
- Decree 6/2023, of 7 July, on the Reorganisation of the Ministries of the Administration of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.
- Royal Decree 713/2024, of 23 July, approving the Regulations governing the Consumer Arbitration System.
- Reports or opinions
- No reports or opinions are required
- Resolution entity
- President of the Consumer Arbitration Board.
- Attributive rule
Royal Decree 713/2024, of 23 July, approving the Regulation governing the Consumer Arbitration System.
- Maximum deadline for decision
- 3 Months
- Average deadline for decision
- 2 Months
- Effects of the administrative silence or inactivity of the Administration
- Initiation by request:
- Positive
- Does it put an end to the administrative procedure?
- Yes
Appeals
- Type
Optional appeal for reconsideration against the resolutions issued by the President of the Consumer Arbitration Board.
- Board
The optional appeal for reversal before the same body.
- Deadline
- 1 month for the appeal for reconsideration.
Regulations
- Regulation applied
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- Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007, of 16 November, approving the revised text of the General Law for the Defence of Consumers and Users and other complementary laws.
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- Law 60/2003, of 23 December, on Arbitration (BOE no. 309 of 26 December 2003).
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- Royal Decree 713/2024, of 23 July, approving the Regulation governing the Consumer Arbitration System.
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- Law of Cantabria 1/2006, of 7 March, on the defence of consumers and users (BOC no. 52 of 15 March 2006).
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