Updates as 9 July 2020: Instructions for Transits Permits Chile

Instructions for Transit Permits Updated as 9 July, 2020

1. Isolation Quarantine: confinement to be carried out by persons confirmed with COVID-19, awaiting the result of the PCR test and/or who have had close contact with persons confirmed WITH COVID-19, this should be carried out in their home, hospital grounds or residence, according to clinical criteria.

2. Territorial quarantine: Areas where the free travel of persons is prohibited in order to prevent community transmission and spread of the virus.

3. Preventive Quarantine: confinement to be carried out over 75 years during the period determined by the authority, for being considered a high-risk group and people who enter Chile for the period of 14 days.

4. Sanitary Customs: sanitary control barrier that is established at a specific point to control access between one zone and another according to the risk of the person.

5. Sanitary cordon: measure that prohibits the entrance and exit of a certain place. To cross, an individual safe-conduct, a temporary collective permit or a single work permit will be required to ensure basic supplies and essential services in that place.

6. Curfew: It is the suspension of the freedom of transit in the hours determined by the Chiefs of National Defense in a State of Constitutional Emergency of Catastrophe.

7. Temporary Individual Permit: this is an authorization that allows people to carry out fundamental activities and obtain essential goods and services in communes that are under health quarantine. It can be acquired remotely at a Comisaria Virtual or in person at police stations. They do not allow travel during curfew hours or to cross a sanitary cordon.

8. Collective Permit: it is the one requested by a company or institution of essential item, so that their workers can attend in person to the workplace and / or circulate in the exercise of their duties. This must be requested through a Comisaria Virtual, attaching a nominated list of workers along with the email address of each one of them. The worker will receive in this mail the authorization of travel with the individualization of name and schedule to carry out their work

These are valid permits:

• Credential accompanied by National Identity Card for health workers, officials and public servants, food and essential trade, emergencies, education and transport.

• Single bus permit, for the rest of the items declared as essential in these instructions

9. Single Collective Permit: is the one requested by a company or institution of essential item, so that their workers can attend in person to the workplace and / or circulate in the exercise of their duties. This must be requested through a Comisaria Virtual, attaching a nominated list of workers along with the email address of each one of them. The worker will receive in this mail the authorization of travel with the individualization of name and schedule to carry out their work.

10. Delivery's permit: it is the one that authorizes the distribution of food, medicines and other essential goods for domestic use through the delivery platforms that will enable them to circulate through quarantined communes. This permit is obtained through Comisaria Virtual.

11. Safe-conducts: these are temporary authorizations that allow fundamental activities to be carried out during curfew hours and also to cross through sanitary lanes. These can be individual or collective.

12. Essential goods for domestic use: are those goods that are intended to be used or consumed by people within the home and those necessary for the existence, stability, conservation and security of the home.

II. TEMPORARY INDIVIDUAL PERMIT

This type of permit authorizes people to carry out fundamental activities and to supply themselves with essential goods and services.

This permit may be requested remotely in the portal comisariavirtual.cl by entering the respective unique password or the RUT and serial number of the RUT.

This type of permit will have the following characteristics:

1. It may only be requested directly by the person who is to move from one place to another, in any of the cases listed below. Under no circumstances may a person who is on the active COVID-19 records maintained by the health authority circulate.

2. These permits are personal, unique and non-transferable and lose their validity once the period for which they were granted has expired. In the event that they are disabled persons or elderly non-valid adults, they may carry out the activity in the company of another person.

3. The procedures authorized through this permit can only be carried out by one person.

4. Each person may apply for a maximum of two individual permits per week with the exception of the permit referred to in paragraph 3, 14 and 15 below for the persons with an autism spectrum disorder or other mental disability.

The validity will start 15 minutes after being requested in the Comisaria Virtual platform.

This type of permit will be granted for the time indicated in each of the following cases:

1. Going to health centres, services and establishments per previously arranged hour and/or medical treatment. In this case, the person may go with a companion. Duration: 3 hours of free transit.

2. Going to pharmacies, supermarkets, markets and/or places where basic supplies are sold, whether for the purchase of food, medicines and/or other basic supplies. Duration: 3 hours of free transit.

3. Taking a person with autism spectrum disorder for a walk with their respective caregiver or companion, who must show the supervisory authority the Disability Card, Certificate of Disability from the Civil Registry or Medical Certificate indicating the Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder. The permit must be requested in the name of the caregiver or companion. Duration: 2 hours of free transit, no restrictions.

4. Walking pets or animals under your care, with reduced transit within the two blocks around your home or residence. Duration: 30 minutes,

5. Payment of basic services, collection of pensions and bank management. For pensioners who have to go to the payment centres to collect their pension, the receipt and their respective national identity card will suffice. Duration: It can only be requested from Monday to Saturday for 3 hours. In the case of pensioners who attend the payment centres with the aforementioned documents, the authorisation will be understood to be valid on the day of payment.

6. Going to funerals of immediate family members. if residing in the same region of the funeral.

7. Collection of food from public bodies, such as JUNAEB or others. Duration: 5 hours, maximum once a week.

8. Appearance at a summons to which an attorney or other person is required by law to attend. Duration: Until completion of the proceedings.

9. Bringing food, medicine or basic needs to older adults, avoiding direct or physical contact with them. Duration: 2 hours of free transit

10. Bringing food, medicine or basic necessities to prison premises, in accordance with the rules established by the Chilean Police. Duration: 3 hours of free transit,

11. Transfer of children or adolescents between the homes of their parents or guardians for the fulfilment of all or part of the time of a quarantine decreed by the health authority. Duration: 2 hours for the transfer.

12. Transfer and stay of the parent in health centres to visit people with disabilities and dependence. Duration: 3 hours of free transit

13. Civil marriage ceremonies. This permit may be requested, once only, for each bride and groom, which may include a total of up to 5 companions per bride and groom, according to the capacity of the facility where the ceremony is held, in order to ensure social distancing. Duration: 4 hours.

14. Blood donor permit for people who have a reserved time at an authorised donation centre. This permit will last 4 hours for blood donors and can be requested once every 90 days. In the case of apheresis donation, the permit will have a duration of 6 hours and may be requested once every 15 days. This permit is in addition to the two weekly permits.

15. Carers of elderly and disabled people, with or without a contract, who can prove the health condition of the person requiring assistance and their link with the person.

16. Other cases that the competent authority may reasonably authorize.

Duration: 5 hours of free transit 24 hours if the funeral is in another region.

III. INDIVIDUAL SAFE-CONDUCTS

The safe-conducts allow people to travel during curfew hours and to enter and leave through a cordon sanitaire.

This type of permit will have the following characteristics:

• It can only be requested directly by the person who will be moving from one place to another, for any of the reasons listed below.

• These permits are personal, unique and non-transferable and lose their validity once the period for which they were granted has expired.

• They may be requested remotely at the portal comisariavirtual.cl by entering their respective unique password, or in person at the offices of Carabineros de Chile.

  It will be granted in the following cases:

1. Medical treatments. Duration: 24 hours, the applicant must also accompany the medical certificate attesting to the illness. (example: treatments for cancer, dialysis).

2. Funeral arrangements. Duration: 5 hours in the same region, 24 hours in another region.

3. Moving. Including members of the family that is moving as a companion of the procedure. Duration: 24 hours in the same region, 48 hours when it is to another region. It must always be accompanied by a notarized affidavit of change of address.

IV. COLLECTIVE TRAVEL PERMIT (ID or Institution Document)

The list of cases in which the travel of persons will be authorised only for specific purposes and to the extent strictly necessary is set out below.

A valid permit authorizing the travel will be considered to be an institutional credential, whether public or private, or an institutional document attesting to your status as a worker in the specific field indicated below, always with your respective national identity card.

1. Health

a. Health professionals and laboratories Officials of public or private institutions, who carry out functions in this area without restrictions, incorporating companies that offer food and cleaning services in these premises. It extends to quarantine hotels, stadiums and convention centres or others for patient care, and long-stay establishments for the elderly.

b. Staff of pharmacies, laboratories, chemical companies and drug producers. Likewise, the personnel of companies dedicated to the production of medical supplies, medical devices, personal protection elements and inputs for their storage and conservation.

c. Staff of veterinary services and providing services in an animal facility (zoos, racetracks and university campuses). This includes members of not-for-profit organisations involved in animal care, duly qualified by the competent authority.

d. Persons caring for children or adolescents who are children or in the care of persons referred to in (a) above. These persons must present their identity card and a photocopy of the health officer's credentials, as well as a certificate from the health institution attesting to the shifts in which the parents or carers perform their duties and indicating the name and identity card number of the person designated to care for the child or adolescent by the health worker.

2. Emergency

Emergency services, such as firefighters and fire prevention and combat personnel, emergency response crews of transportation companies, gas distribution companies, electricity transmission and distribution companies, telecommunications and drinking water.

3. Public Utility Services

a. Officials and civil servants, within the framework of the fulfilment of their duties. This category includes municipal, legislative and judicial officials, including officials belonging to autonomous public institutions such as the Comptroller General's Office, the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Central Bank and the Social Security Institute.

b. Members of the Diplomatic Corps who must carry their diplomatic credentials.

c. People who provide services in residences for children and adolescents, older adults, and people with disabilities or in street situations. Likewise, the staff of the Women's Centres and their shelters.

d. Chilean Armed Force
e. Carabineros de Chile.
f. Investigation Policy (PDI)

4. Food and essential trade

a. Persons serving in supermarkets, bakeries, markets, food supply, distribution and production centres, as well as trade in essential household goods. Also, persons providing services to entities engaged in the production, distribution or trade of essential household goods. Fairground workers only when they present their patent and respective identity card.

b. Workers in neighbourhood stores, food retail outlets, hardware stores and other basic inputs, only when they are served by their own owners (according to labour regulations).

c. Personnel of agro-food companies, forestry and agricultural producers, with respect to the land and tasks in which critical processes are being carried out (planting, harvesting, processing and distribution), as well as fishing and processing of fish and seafood, production of food for animals, birds and fish farming, and production of cellulose and paper, cardboard and derived products.

5. Transport

a. Personnel working in public transport (buses, subway, metro-train or others).

b. Transporters of essential goods. Only personnel indispensable for carrying out the functions of transporting goods of public and/or private companies with respect to the items indicated in this document.

The dispatch guide will be the health permit for the carrier and must indicate: Driver's RUT. Truck license plate. Date of dispatch. Destination of dispatch. Hourly range to perform it. Products to be dispatched.

c. Essential personnel of the companies that perform activities associated with cargo logistics, such as those developed in ports, maritime terminals, airfields and airports; terminals, roads and other railway facilities; storage, deposit, inspection and/or distribution facilities of goods; transportation elements such as containers, trucks and trailers; and, the provision of any maintenance or repair service or inputs necessary for transportation operations.

d. Personnel working in the country's airports, who may travel from the airport to their places of residence and vice versa, carrying their credential, in the case of crews, and their identity card.

6. Education

a. Education assistants and teachers who are taking ethical shifts.

b. Essential personnel for the technological support and maintenance of educational institutions, whether public or private.

7. Others

a. Persons who provide services in hotels where guests are kept.

b. Activities which by their nature cannot be stopped and whose interruption generates an alteration for the functioning of the country, duly determined by the competent authority.

c. Ministers of religion, exclusively to attend rites or activities that cannot be postponed.

VI. SINGLE COLLECTIVE PERMIT

This permit may be obtained through the Comisaria Virtual, and will be applicable only in the first stage for workers of companies considered as public utility, security and press services, which are listed below.

This permit replaces the use of credentials for free travel, during daytime hours, and the safe-conduct for curfew hours, which must be obtained in order to be authorized to attend work in person and, therefore, persons must carry the Single Collective Permit and the national identity card and always present them to the supervisory authority at the time of control.

This type of permit will have the following characteristics:

• The Single Collective Permit is valid for 7 calendar days.

• In each case, it will be the applicant's responsibility to indicate whether the

  permit will be used during the day and/or in the evening.

• It is valid for entering and leaving through sanitary cordons.

• It must be obtained, at least, 3 hours in advance by the applicant.

• The list of workers will be checked against the records of active COVID-19

  cases maintained by the Health Authority. Consequently, it may not be obtained by persons who are on the above-mentioned register as active cases.

• One-time permits may be scheduled up to 3 days before they take effect, so that applicants can get organized in advance.

• Each applicant institution must enter into the Comisaria Virtual the list of persons who may attend the workplace in person and must inform their respective sectorial portfolios, their total staff and the criteria used to

estimate the number of persons who must perform their work in person. This information will be audited by the respective sectoral institutions

1. Public Utility Services

a. Personnel working in energy supply and operations plants (generation, transmission, storage and distribution), both public and private.

b. Personnel working in drinking water supply and operations plants. c. Personnel working in gas supply and operations plants.
d. Service station and fuel distribution staff.
e. Staff performing essential tasks for the operation of motorways.

f. Telecommunications services, data centre and operations centre personnel.

g. Personnel working in nuclear reactors.

h. Personnel of banks and financial institutions, compensation funds, securities transport and insurance companies paying annuities. In addition, staff who provide services for the administration of unemployment insurance

i. Isapres and AFP's personnel.
j. Funeral services and cemetery personnel.
k. Workers in garbage collection companies, septic tanks and sanitary landfills.

l. Service providers in postal companies, whether public or private, and delivery companies, which shall be subject to special sanitary rules determined by the Health Authority for the performance of their functions.

m. Essential personnel for the operation of the notary's offices, according to the turn established by the respective Court of Appeals for this purpose and the conservatives of Real Estate.

n. Essential personnel for the facilitation of the country's foreign trade, meaning customs agents and assistants

o. Personnel providing services for the maintenance, repair and operation of public infrastructure, such as public buildings, airports, ports, roads, hospitals, rivers, canals, reservoirs and prisons

p. Personnel providing services for the production, processing and delivery of food to public institutions and those providing services for them.

q. Emergency response teams from transport companies, gas distribution companies, electricity transmission and distribution companies, telecommunications, drinking water, sanitation and pest control.

r. Essential workers for the operation of mining company sites, suppliers and contractors.

s. Personnel of veterinary services and those who provide services for the care of animals in biotheriums, zoos, racetracks, experimental stations, university campuses and other public or private institutions that possess or house animals. This includes members of non-profit organisations that carry out work for the care of animals, duly qualified by the competent authority.

2. Security.

a. Concierges and security officers for buildings, condominiums and other properties.

b. Security companies, technological resources and related companies without a Carabineros de Chile OS10 credential.

3. Press.
Journalists and members of the media (TV channels, written press, radio and online media).

VII. DELIVERY PERMIT

Permit for distributors who provide food and medicine distribution services through delivery platforms, which will enable them to circulate in quarantined communes.

This type of permit will have the following characteristics:

• Validity for one day only until 24:00 hours.

• The list of distributors will be checked against the records of active COVID-

  19 cases maintained by the Health Authority. Consequently, it cannot be

  obtained by persons who are on the aforementioned record as active cases.

• Deliverers must present this permit together with their national identity card

  to the control authority.

These regulations are effective as of Thursday, 9 July, 2020 at 5:00 a.m., replacing the instructions accompanied by Official Letter No. 13,556, dated 19 June, 2020, signed by the Ministers of the Interior, Public Security and National Defence.

Notwithstanding the above, all resolutions issued by the Competent Authority remain in full force.