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This paper takes stock of the application of the Valencian photovoltaic regulations relating to the setting-up of photovoltaic plants on nondevelopable land, as well as that relating to the plants under state jurisdiction in Valencian territory, showing the difficulties of their implementation, including the adoption of numerous agreements to suspend the granting of municipal licenses, due, in the author's opinion, to the haste with which the transition process has been developed and the consequent choice of many conflictive sites. The recent reform of European community regulations relating to the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources is also analyzed, which is based on a more rational approach, but which may arrive late. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the substantive and procedural regime of the new "integrated photovoltaic authorization" created by the Valencian legislator (Decree Law 14/2020) to facilitate the implementation of photovoltaic plants on undeveloped land, highlighting the regulated nature of territorial intervention that it incorporates (the authorization of implantation in undeveloped land). The response aroused by this regulation in some Town Halls is also taken into account, which has resulted in the suspension of the granting of municipal licenses, causing their lack of effectiveness. And finally, the reaction of the Valencian legislator to this situation of paralysis through Decree Law 1/2022 is also examined, which corrects the territorial policy on the matter to help its acceptance at the local level and takes advantage of the facilities for environmental evaluation of the projects recently offered by the state legislator (Royal Decree-Law 6/2022). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this small paper, a review is made of the regional legislative developments on integrated pollution prevention and control, that is, with a strict interpretation of what are really manifestations of this technique, such as the one advocated here, of the legislative developments of the figure of the integrated environmental authorization (AAI). The thesis of the work is that, given the increasing regulatory density of European Community legislation and the basic state legislation on the subject, the current and foreseeably future role of such developments is very secondary, and focused on the articulation of the AAI with other sectoral interventions on the industrial facilities included within its scope of application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the last judgments in the case of the Aznalcóllar mines (or Boliden case). A well-known event in Spain that produced significant environmental damage, and that, having occurred before the new Law on Environmental Liability and to be resolved under the previous legislation, is causing countless problems for reimbursement of the substantial expenditures invested by the Spanish Public Administration in repairing the damage. Posed a negative conflict of jurisdiction between civil and administrative courts, the Special Chamber of Conflicts of Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court has just returned the matter back to the former. To the author, it is, however, a false or apparent conflict, because of loopholes in that previous law, fortunately overcome for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the last judgments in the case of the Aznalcóllar mines (or Boliden case). A well-known event in Spain that produced significant environmental damage, and that, having occurred before the new Law on Environmental Liability and to be resolved under the previous legislation, is causing countless problems for reimbursement of the substantial expenditures invested by the Spanish Public Administration in repairing the damage. Posed a negative conflict of jurisdiction between civil and administrative courts, the Special Chamber of Conflicts of Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court has just returned the matter back to the former. To the author, it is, however, a false or apparent conflict, because of loopholes in that previous law, fortunately overcome for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]