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ARCHIVED - Proposal for the Mar Menor to become legal entity is admitted for processing
The Congress of Deputies has now admitted the bill to make the Mar Menor and its basin a legal entity
As discussed many times over the years, the topic of how the Mar Menor can be cared for on a long-term basis is complicated, due to the sheer number of different bodies and administrations involved in the decisions, implementation and the management of this large area, which lies within several municipalities and is controlled by several different bodies.
The regional government, the national government, the CHS, the councils of Cartagena, San Pedro del Pinatar, san Javier, Los Alcázares, Torre Pacheco, environmentalists, scientists etc, all are involved, and of course, the people who live and work there also have an opinion and a lot at stake.
There has been talk about creating a single body to manage the Mar Menor which works in co-ordination with the above bodies, but obviously the political implications of this are widespread and extremely complicated, but there have also been calls to make the Mar Menor a legal entity in its own right, a point of view particularly popular with resident protest groups who don´t wish to see the Mar Menor used as a political bargaining tool.
This idea is being promoted by a commission, made up of different people, entities and groups all working with the common aim of the protection of the Mar Menor, and at the end of July, an initiative for the approval of creating this legal entity was presented by the Promoting Commission, made up of different people, entities and groups for the protection of the Mar Menor, before the Congress of Deputies.
The Congress of Deputies has now admitted the bill to make the Mar Menor and its basin a legal entity after a positive report from the Senate.
Once it has been admitted for processing, 500,000 signatures have to be collected in support of the bill within six months to keep the process going, which is a prolonged process.
Associations in defense of the lagoon, such as Por Un Mar Menor Vivo, have demanded that it have three figures derived from the legal personality: a guardianship or legal representation, a Monitoring Commission (which would be the guardians of the Mar Menor) and a Scientific Committee, which will assist the tutoring and the Commission.
Likewise, any natural or legal person would be entitled to defend the Mar Menor ecosystem, and could enforce the rights and prohibitions of the law through an action presented before the corresponding judicial body.
"It would mean that we could have the Mar Menor that we want, without spills, with recovery of wetlands and without heavy metals," they say from the Association.
The objective of this popular legislative initiative is that the lagoon ecosystem of the Mar Menor is endowed as a subject of rights, based on its intrinsic ecological value, and that the necessary intergenerational solidarity is guaranteed, protecting it for future generations, also complying with international commitments acquired, such as the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change.