Maritime and terrestrial domain occupation in Spain ; La ocupación del dominio público marítimo-terrestre en España

Abstract

A proper management of Spanish public shoreline must face at present some of the most serious problems of the twenty past years. Indeed, two decades after the Spanish Coastal Act (passed in 1988), the delimitation of the public appartenances in Spanish coasts is still incomplete, the budget allocation to the «Coastal Actions Program» is clearly insufficient (less than, for example, the budget of a medium-sized university), while administrative permissions for temporary occupation of coastal public domain are likely to persist, with extensions that politically motivated and not a true restoration of public spaces, as evidenced by the controversy in 2009 over the permanence or otherwise of the chiringuitos (so-called bars). Auken report finally forced to rethink Spanish politics, which in recent years tended to an strict and rigorous application of legal articles, so that numerous legal disputes and territorial grew. There is, at least, an apparent contradiction at people eyes between certain strong operations of demolition of some homes, compared with the -apparent- impunity of large property located in similar sites. This paper analyzes the different types of occupation in the coastal public-domain, and the problems that explain the current difficulties facing management. ; La adecuada gestión del dominio público marítimo terrestre español debe afrontar, en el momento actual, algunos de los problemas más graves de los últimos veinte años. En efecto, dos décadas después de la aprobación de la ley de costas en vigor, el deslinde de las costas en España sigue estando incompleto, la asignación presupuestaria al programa «actuaciones en la costa» es claramente insuficiente (menor, por ejemplo, que el presupuesto de una universidad media), mientras que las concesiones —por definición, ocupaciones temporales del dominio público— tienden a perpetuarse, con prórrogas que responden a motivaciones políticas, y no a una verdadera recuperación de espacios públicos, como demuestra la controversia en 2009 sobre la permanencia ...