The plenary session of the Consell approved this Friday the creation of a working group to prepare the preliminary draft of a Valencian coastal law and the reform of the Pativel (territorial action plan for green coastal infrastructure), which was validated just a month ago by the Supreme Court The court has approved in 2018 to convert what was declared buildable back into rustic, protecting thousands of hectares and protecting at least the first 500 meters of land from the shore from brick. The Generalitat intends to take over powers that the central government currently exercises over Costas, but which, according to the executive branch led by Carlos Mazón, could be transferred within the framework of the statute.
Environment Minister Salomé Pradas explained that the law “aims” to regulate the use and activities of the coast and to balance “the economic and social development and protection of the coast.” Although he has repeatedly expressed the Generalitat’s ability to assume these powers, his own words have raised doubts about the autonomous government’s potential authority. “We will defend ourselves,” Pradas said when asked if the initiative and the future law would not be addressed to the bilateral Commission on Governmental Autonomies to determine jurisdiction. The advisor has assured that she has rulings from the Constitutional Court and cases from other municipalities to which powers have already been delegated. The Balearic and Canary Islands as well as Andalusia and Catalonia are the autonomies that they already have. In the first two cases, it arose from an agreement between the central government and the regional government, which does not correspond to the way the Consell de Mazón works. In the case of Catalonia, the law was appealed to the Constitutional Court, which upheld it in the judgment mentioned by Pradas, since its law makes a clearer reference to the management of the coast than the Valencian statute. The same applies to Andalusia, whose statute has wording practically identical to that of Catalonia. However, the lack of powers provided for in the statute has led to the Constitutional Court itself overruling the Galician law, which wanted to apply its own criteria and deadlines to act against illegal constructions on the coast.
According to sources from the Ministry of Environment of the Generalitat Valenciana, the model for the preliminary project is the Galician law, which aims to limit measures against illegal constructions and, in fact, one of the examples cited by Salomé Pradas was the conflicts surrounding the coastal towns of Denia, Nules and Cabanes, Groups of houses built dozens of years ago on the same beach, a space that Costas considers to be part of the maritime-terrestrial area of which the state is the exclusive jurisdiction.
In fact, this is one of the examples that Salomé Pradas gave to justify a new law that, as she said, “defends” the owners of these houses against the “unfair and arbitrary excesses” of the government.
Ministry sources have also indicated that the powers they are requesting will be those relating to “the mainland and the sea”, so that the renewal of the beaches or the reconstruction of the promenades, which are repeatedly affected by sea storms, must be paid by the Generalitat.
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The announcement has already been responded to by the PSPV. The deputy spokesperson of the Socialists in Les Corts and responsible for the territory, María José Salvador, accused the PP of “using the Valencian institutions as a battering ram against the Spanish government” and stressed that “this proposal encroaches on the powers of the state” . and will end up being suspended by the Constitutional Court, as happened in Galicia.” In addition, the socialist leader has asked the Consell to “explain in detail what its real objective is with this new legislation” and regretted that “the right returns to her model of wild urbanism, from which she apparently has learned nothing.” .
The deputy spokesman of the PSPV-PSOE stated that “the policies that the Valencian Socialists will always defend will be those committed to the fight against climate change and the protection of the territory and landscape enclaves,” stressing that “they “We will always find ourselves confronted if they make politics an instrument of confrontation.”
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