A detailed overview of security regulations and the impact of non-compliance.
Aeropuertos Espanoles y Navegacion Aerea (AENA) may withdraw an airport access pass when there is a breach of the National Security Programme (PNS), which is designed to protect passengers, crews, the public, ground personnel, aircraft, airports and airport facilities against acts of unlawful interference.
For service providers and contractors, AENA supervises and penalizes companies and their staff for breaches of contractual obligations attributable to them, including breaches of security regulations, through disciplinary proceedings.
Under the procedure established in the contract, companies are notified of the reasons for opening the file and the corresponding penalty, with proof that the recipient has received the notice.
After that notification, the company or the sanctioned worker has a period in which to submit any arguments they consider appropriate. Those arguments are then assessed before the final classification of the infringement and the penalty to be imposed are determined.
Airport workers must be extremely careful with day-to-day compliance. This is not a trivial matter: security depends on all of us, and non-compliance may lead to administrative penalties or even permanent withdrawal of the pass, which could inevitably result in the loss of the job.
Sanctions and duration
These are examples of sanctions and their duration:
1. Withdrawal of the personal pass for one to seven days for:
- Leaving a door open after accessing through it using the pass.
- Using your own pass to facilitate access for another authorized person.
- Using another person's pass to access, even if you are authorized.
- Using passes that expired less than fifteen days ago.
- Not wearing the pass visibly, provided it is being carried elsewhere.
- Using the pass while not on duty.
- Coming to the airport more than three times in one month without the pass.
2. Withdrawal of the pass for seven to thirty days for:
- Using your own pass to facilitate access for an unauthorized person.
- Leaving a ZRS (Zona Restringida de Seguridad) access point open.
- Accessing the restricted area while avoiding a security control.
- Accessing the ZRS (Zona Restringida de Seguridad) with unauthorized prohibited items.
- Accessing the restricted area through access points or means other than those established.
- Refusing to undergo established security measures.
- Refusing to show the pass to security staff.
- Using passes that expired fifteen or more days ago.
- Using another person's pass.
- Using the pass in areas for which it is not authorized.
- Taking photographs or recordings in unauthorized areas.
3. Withdrawal of the pass from thirty days to permanent withdrawal for repeated conduct:
- Repeated misuse of passes.
- Tampering with or falsifying passes.
- Failure to comply with orders, rules and instructions issued by the airport authority.
