Sunday, December 25, 2005
Valencia Life. 23.12.05
A STORMY DEBATE (or LUV's labour's won?)
The Valencian Parliament yesterday approved the new land laws, better known as LUV, with the votes of the Partido Popular, who carried the motion. The remainder of the parliamentary session - the last before Christmas - was taken up with recriminations between the various politicians over the European Union report about the land laws. The PP accused the opposition parties of being totally disloyal by using the European findings as a weapon with which to beat the Valencian Government over the head, and also criticized certain 'European Lobbies' and 'the financial interests of other countries' of interfering with the laws of the Valencian Community. The Socialists stated that they considered the new law did not comply with the norms of the European Union, but Rafael Maluenda, the joint spokesman for the PP stated: "The European Union has no right to impose itself on our competencies. Brussels must respect the decisions taken in Spain and in theValencian Community as Spain is a country in its own right."
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Note: We have an electronic version of the draft law as debated in the Cortes yesterday. Together with the proposed amendments (all of which, apart from some proposed by the PP itself, were rejected) it totals over 240 pages of turgid legalistic verbiage. Some sentences run to 50 words and some paragraphs more than a page. It will therefore take some time to analyze. The LUV is to enter into force and replace the LRAU 30 days after it appears in the DOGV ( the official regional bulletin) . It is open to challenge via the courts, and that may well happen. However it will be in effect during such an appeal period. Unless the wording was modified, one feature of the LUV (Chapter IV) will require that ALL development plans (PAIs) be published in the BOE, the official Bulletin of Europe, and thus be open to EU wide competition prior to approval . That process, which carries some technical and procedural requirements, will add some delays, and perhaps open more development schemes to court appeals. CVS
A STORMY DEBATE (or LUV's labour's won?)
The Valencian Parliament yesterday approved the new land laws, better known as LUV, with the votes of the Partido Popular, who carried the motion. The remainder of the parliamentary session - the last before Christmas - was taken up with recriminations between the various politicians over the European Union report about the land laws. The PP accused the opposition parties of being totally disloyal by using the European findings as a weapon with which to beat the Valencian Government over the head, and also criticized certain 'European Lobbies' and 'the financial interests of other countries' of interfering with the laws of the Valencian Community. The Socialists stated that they considered the new law did not comply with the norms of the European Union, but Rafael Maluenda, the joint spokesman for the PP stated: "The European Union has no right to impose itself on our competencies. Brussels must respect the decisions taken in Spain and in theValencian Community as Spain is a country in its own right."
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Note: We have an electronic version of the draft law as debated in the Cortes yesterday. Together with the proposed amendments (all of which, apart from some proposed by the PP itself, were rejected) it totals over 240 pages of turgid legalistic verbiage. Some sentences run to 50 words and some paragraphs more than a page. It will therefore take some time to analyze. The LUV is to enter into force and replace the LRAU 30 days after it appears in the DOGV ( the official regional bulletin) . It is open to challenge via the courts, and that may well happen. However it will be in effect during such an appeal period. Unless the wording was modified, one feature of the LUV (Chapter IV) will require that ALL development plans (PAIs) be published in the BOE, the official Bulletin of Europe, and thus be open to EU wide competition prior to approval . That process, which carries some technical and procedural requirements, will add some delays, and perhaps open more development schemes to court appeals. CVS
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