23/nov/10 eldia.es
Madrid, EFE The Environment Committee has approved Senate this afternoon with the popular group support two amendments, one of CiU and a DC-to seek to reform the current Coastal Act to revise the criteria for sea-land boundary and protect, inter alia, certain settlements.
Both amendments have been made during the debate and vote in the Committee on Environment Protection Bill Marine Environment.
The text, adopted almost in its entirety, be sent now to the full Senate for discussion and vote, including those amendments.
At its initiative, CiU argues that within three months the government will promote the amendment of the Coastal Act in order to improve the criteria for demarcation of the maritime-terrestrial public domain applicable to consolidated urban areas with singularities, such as the Marina of Empuriabrava (Castelló d'Empuries) of Private Channels and Santa Margarida (Roses) and Sabanell Platko (Blanes). In justifying
explained that seeks to find a solution to a problem that is affecting a large number of owners of a major tourist area, following the start, by the Dirección General de Costas, the process to define the property the maritime-terrestrial public domain of those locations
Canary Coalition's amendment provides, among other things, that are considered urban areas, which include lands that have road access, water supply, drainage and supply electricity.
In its justification, explains that the reality is that many rural settlements have their own primary urbanization or urban land are bound by the building in the same area required for that kind of soil, although they have been classified as such by being in a rural environment and the legislature have wanted to preserve a city's own development.
Bill Marine Environment Protection is a standard that seeks to strengthen the protection of a natural area in Spain is approximately one million square kilometers.
The English coast is marked off by 93 percent its length, the report on the implementation of the Coastal Act of 1988 introduced last October the Council of Ministers by the Ministry of Environment. LINK
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