The Administrative Litigation Chamber of the Supreme Court has admitted for processing the appeals presented by the regional government, the Junta de Andalucía, the Irrigation Union and the Alicante Provincial Council against the royal decree that regulates the Tagus hydrological plan and that will cause a loss of transfer to Segura.
Likewise, the Supreme Court has admitted for processing the separate pieces in which the adoption of precautionary measures is requested to suspend the application of the new ecological flows, which began to increase in February with the first step of 6 to 7 cubic meters per second. The high court gives ten days to the State Attorney’s Office to argue against the requests for these precautionary measures.
In that separate piece, as reported by LA VERDAD, the Autonomous Community alleges that there is no superior public interest that requires the immediate application of the new ecological flows, and alleges that the norm generates serious economic and social damage in the Region of Murcia; as well as in Alicante and Almería.
Along the same lines, the Transfer Irrigation Union (Scrats) has asked the Supreme Court to allow biologist Antoni Palau, a professor at the University of Lérida, to appear in order to explain his report, according to which the ecological state of the masses of water will not be altered if the previous minimum flow is maintained.
The Community’s appeal, for its part, is based on an exhaustive analysis of the methodology used to determine the new ecological flow regime to determine if it has responded to technical and objective criteria, and if the impacts have been taken into account. foreseeable on the affected basins. On this basis, the request for the adoption of precautionary measures has been founded “in order to protect the interests of the parties involved, especially those of the Region of Murcia, as well as guarantee the integrity of the water resources and ecosystems affected by the royal decree appealed, “indicated sources from the regional government.
“A very good news”
“It is very good news; Our president said that we were going to use all the tools at our disposal to defend the continuity of the Transfer, which is essential for the Region and the Levante”, declared the Minister of the Presidency Marcos Ortuño. In his opinion, the decision of the Supreme Court ratifies the position of the regional government to file this appeal «against the sectarian and partisan decision of the Government of Spain to cut the Transfer.
The Generalitat considers it “good news” that the Supreme Court has admitted these precautionary appeals and petitions for processing, said Vice President Aitana Mas. The Consell also appealed against the Tagus Plan.
Lucas Jiménez: “Damage to Levante is already taking place”
The president of the transfer irrigators, Lucas Jiménez, pointed out that these procedures “do not mean anything” except that the resources that have been presented and that have been worked on together “are well founded.” In his opinion, with these resources “it is irrefutably demonstrated that damage to the Levant is already being produced with this rise of 7 cubic meters per second” in the ecological flow “does not improve the quality of the Tagus waters nor does it serve users at all » of this river. This judicial decision means that “good work has been done and that it has been well founded, which results in the Supreme Court agreeing to study the possibility of imposing precautionary measures against the decision to increase ecological flows.” That said, Jiménez has admitted that it is “extremely complicated” and “very difficult” that, finally, the Supreme Court “grants these precautionary measures”, above all, “against the State”. “We cannot say that they cannot finally be granted, but we have to be realistic: the fact that the piece of precautionary measures has been admitted for processing does not mean that it is resolved,” he pointed out. Irrigators have “more hope” in the administrative litigation appeal, which “follows its route” and which “will probably be resolved in a year and a half” to address the underlying issue.
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