Chambers and Partners recognise Pareja i Advocats, Associats

Chambers and Partners recognizes Pareja i Associats, Advocats, as one of the best law firms in Spain in the field of planning once again. Chambers and Partners again distinguishes Carles Pareja and Gemma Segura for their knowledge, experience and professional rigour in urban and public law, as well as for their communicative capacity. Chambers and…

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The Supreme Court considers it illegal to prohibit the establishment of housing for tourist use in certain areas of the Canary Islands because it violates the principles of necessity and proportionality established in the Market Unity Guarantee Act, as well as the Services Directive and the Law on free access to service activities and the exercise thereof.

In the judgment of 12 December 2018 (Ar. RJ\2018\5689), the High Court analyses whether the regulation of housing for tourist use in the Canary Islands is sufficiently justified and, more specifically, the restriction of uses contained in Article 3.2 of Decree no. 113/2015, of 22 May 2015, enacting the Canary Islands Holiday Rental Property Regulations…

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The SC confirms that in the framework of a compulsory expropriation procedure, the expropriating Administration cannot desist from the expropriation already initiated once the fair price has been determined in the administrative way

The Supreme Court, in its ruling of July 10, 2018, declared that the determination of the expropriation price in the administrative way determines the inability of the expropriating Administration to desist from the expropriation initiated. Now, in emergency proceedings – in which the occupation is prior to the fixing of the fair price – the…

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Modification of the Urban Planning Regulations of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area Development Plan regarding Barcelona car parks, definitively approved on September 18, 2018, published in the DOGC of 10-16-2018.

The Urban Planning Subcommittee of the municipality of Barcelona, in session of September 18, 2018, definitively approved the Modification of the urban planning regulations of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area Development Plan (PGM) regarding Barcelona car parks, a modification that was published in the DOGC, for the purpose of its immediate enforceability, on October 16, 2018….

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The Supreme Court declares that a competitor has legal standing to challenge the authorisation of a chemical product which does not comply with EU legislation

The Supreme Court (SC) has held that it is “more than obvious” that the holder of a plant protection product authorisation (in the specific case metalaxyl) has legal standing to challenge the authorisation of a chemical product granted to a competing company. The reason given was that the competing industry had provided documentation essential for…