The Lucha for Mar Menor’s protection has lived yesterday, May 29, a decisive chapter in its history. The three organs that will represent the Murcian lagoon as a subject of rights and obligations have been constituted, which makes it the first European ecosystem with legal personality.
In an act held in the degrees at the Law Faculty of the University of Murcia, Mar Menor has taken a fundamental step for his defense. The representation bodies have been constituted that, from now on, will act as their legal tutors.
The teacher of philosophy of the right of the UMU, Teresa Vicente, promoter of the Popular Legislative Initiative (ILP), has been elected president of the Representatives Committee. The mayor of Los Alcázares, Mario Pérez Cervera, will preside over the Monitoring Committee, and the UMU Ecology Professor, Miguel Ángel Esteve, will lead the Scientific Committee.
Mar Menor: Tutors, Defense and Legality
From this Thursday the Mar Menor will have three tutors who will ensure their rights and its protection against possible aggressions, as established by Law 19/2022 that granted legal personality to this ecosystem, the first in Europe to achieve it.
The process that started in August 2019 with a popular legislative initiative (ILP) that led 640,000 signatures to the Congress of Deputies, where He managed to support all political groups, except VOXthat even the law appealed before the Constitutional Court.
To Teresa Vicente, that resource helped the norm, novel worldwidesince the high court denied all the questions that Vox had raised and endorsed the adaptation of all articles of the law to the Constitution.
“It is the law with the most legitimacy of democracy. The legitimacy of the people, which is the one who proposes it; one of the three governance agencies of the Laguna that establishes the law.
By Part of the scientific committee, the tutor of the lagoon will be Miguel Ángel Estevewhich has stressed that this representation seeks to apply scientific knowledge to find faster and more effective solutions to restore the lagoon ecosystem and recover its biodiversity.
For its part, Mario Pérez Cervera will be the tutor that represents the third governance agency, the Monitoring Committeeand stressed that the ILP that today culminates its implementation process is already “example throughout Europe” to change the paradigm in the protection of the environment providing it with rights.
Teresa Vicente also highlighted the consensus that has been in these appointments of the tutors, which have been agreed by the 44 members who form the three mentioned committees, In an act behind closed doors that has ended with applause and excited hugs of the attendees.
In addition to Mar Menor tutors has been designated today as its manager To the lawyer Sergio Marco, who will act as legal representative of the lagoon based on the decisions made by his tutors.
The figure is similar to that of a legal representative of a company and, as such, Your first task will be to request a NIF for Mar Menorwhich will also become the first ecosystem to have that fiscal identification so far reserved for business entities or organizations.
A current account will also open in the name of the Mar Menor and a fiscal domicile will be established, all with the objective that the lagoon can exercise rights of which it is subject: “Although they have not been given before, The rights of nature exist and sometimes have to be visible and recognize them”, He explained. For his part, the lawyer Alfonso Manzano, who is another of the promoters of the ILP, will be the secretary of this new legal form of nature. EFE /ECOticias.com