The Presidency of the Generalitat and the Ministry of Agriculture have met urgently and are discussing the measures they’ll take The Consell is designing a roadmap that shall be of “most forcefulness” The Generalitat signifies that it defends dialogue within the face of confrontation
The Generalitat Valenciana considers that the opinion of the Council of State on the royal decree of the Government that approves the revision of the hydrological plans of the hydrographic demarcations “endorses” the place of the Valencian administration and “reinforces” its arguments, for which purpose it appeals to the Central government to dialogue, whereas finding out to take authorized motion.
This was defined by the vice chairman and spokesperson for the Consell, Aitana Mas, on the press convention after the plenary session of the Consell, the place she identified that even supposing the opinion is favorable to the decree, the Government is warned of the dearth of coordination that generates the elimination of the ninth further provision, which was the purpose of competition that the Council had been demanding.
Mas has detailed that, after listening to the opinion, the Presidency of the Generalitat and the Ministry of Agriculture have met urgently and that they’re discussing the measures that they’ll take within the coming days, amongst which embrace the judicial route, on the identical time that they’ll insist to the central Executive in opening a dialogue that isn’t going down, he regretted, earlier than including that the Consell groups are designing this roadmap that shall be of “most forcefulness” as a result of “an essential a part of our exercise is at stake financial system and water sovereignty” within the coming years.
Some negotiations during which the Valencian authorities considers that it has “extra power than ever” as a result of, in its opinion, the decision of the advisory physique “reinforces” the arguments of the Consell to have the ability to proceed demanding modifications and, above all, to “straight attraction to Let there be a dialogue.” And it’s that Mas has burdened that there are two choices, that of the dialogue that the Generalitat defends or “the confrontation that different extra irresponsible events do.”
Maintain the ninth further provision
Mas has learn a few of the extracts from the opinion that “endorses” the Valencian positions on the switch and has burdened that this doc impacts that “the ninth further provision should be maintained”, as claimed by the Council and the Alicante irrigators.
Specifically, it has additionally cited one other a part of the opinion on “the dearth of coordination between the Tagus and Segura hydrological plans that the Royal Decree challenge doesn’t remedy, and that may trigger, not solely a scarcity of coherence between the plans of every hydrographic confederation, but additionally to a situation related to a component of nationwide hydrological planning such because the switch of the Tagus-Segura”.
Likewise, he has referred to the specific point out made within the opinion that “the talk and voting within the National Water Council didn’t happen with the readability and transparency with which they need to have taken place”.
“This opinion does nothing apart from endorse the place of the Generalitat and the Consell”, so “we solely need to reaffirm ourselves on these points that we’ve got raised via dialogue in current months” and “we demand that the State Government , in accordance with this report, take it into consideration and might assessment the selections they deliberate to make within the coming days,” Mas defined.
However, the spokesperson for the Consell has reiterated that the Valencian Community, and particularly Alicante, must proceed sustaining water not just for human consumption but additionally for an exercise as essential to its financial system as agriculture, and has questioned which These are the plans of the Ministry to ensure that water may be provided to the Alicante areas within the coming years.
Aitana Mas has defended that emphasis must be positioned on the desalination of water, but additionally on the reuse and purification of water if viability is desired sooner or later. “Too many challenges forward to concentrate on confrontation,” she warned.
Asked if this week the Consell has had any direct contact with the central government to handle the switch, Mas has assured that the Consell “have by no means stopped” and have tried to debate the state of affairs with the Ministry of Ecological Transition “since all fronts, each technical and political”.
Despite this, he regretted that “no progress” has been made, however he believes that this ruling opens a loophole to “strengthen the dialogue over the following few hours.” “We are going to extend the depth and power” of the Valencian claims “via this place of the Council of State”, he concluded.