Álvaro Otárola Fallas, Acting Technical Director General of INCOPESCA, states the following: ".I wish to indicate that this official has no objection to adding to Article 1, the two new subparagraphs to agreement AJDIP/040-2018, in the interest of solving the problem that arises, but only provided that they have the following wording (changes in bold):
"1-To authorize, on a one-time-only basis, the rehabilitation of commercial fishing licenses that had expired without the renewal thereof having been previously requested, under the following conditions:
- k)To those users who had been authorized a transfer and who, for some reason, were unable to complete it, whether before the Public Registry or before the institution itself, in which case they shall be granted a period of up to six calendar months to finalize said procedure; otherwise, they shall lose the right to the rehabilitation of the respective fishing license.
- l)To those permit holders who had been authorized an inactivity period and who, for some reason, were unable to extend their inactivity period before its expiration, they shall be granted a period of up to one calendar year from the rehabilitation of their fishing license to repair, expand, replace, or put into operation their vessel; otherwise, the license shall lapse by operation of law...".