The restoration plan will have full force despite the order of the Constitutional on the closure of the quarries
Joaquin Villanova: "We do not want to return to the past; only thinking about the present, which is Reforestation of the sierra, and about the future, which is to have it recovered in seven years"
July 15, 2008 .-
Referring to the news broadcast today by the media, which echoed the order of the Constitutional Court which suspended the execution of the judgement of October 17, 2005 (the Sala de lo-Contentious Administrative High Court Justice of Andalusia and a judgement of the Court of the Administrative Contentious Issue 4 of Malaga) and affecting the closure of four quarries in the mountains of Alhaurín de la Torre, Mayor's office wants to state the following:
1 .- The indictment issued today refers only to one company, Sando who introduced the April 19, 2006 request for defence against the indictment 20/02/06 refusal of application for revocation of the judgement closure quarries dated 17/10/2005.
2 .- The order considers the request of the company Sando a precautionary suspension of the judgement dictated by the closure TSJA and also the judgement of the court of administrative litigation No 4 in Malaga
3 .- This acceptance of precautionary suspension does not imply that the judgement is overturned, it is simply suspended.
4 .- The municipal legal services understand that this suspension only applies to one of the companies covered by the closure, namely Sando, which alone has appealed, so until there is no communication or final judgement invalidity by the Constitutional Court, unable to assess the extent of the same as the rest of the quarries.
5 .- The order of the Constitutional Court only decides and rules on a complaint brought by Sando on violations of their constitutional rights during the process followed by court No. 4 and TSJA. The order does not imply therefore opinion on whether extractive activities were legal or not.
6 .- Therefore this council goes ahead with its plan Restoration and respect that carries with it remains fully valid, regardless of whether this council as it has always shown abide by court rulings.
Faced with this news the mayor has concluded that:
"The only safe and we want to continue the Special Plan of Reforestation and Restoration of the Sierra as it is approved, which is enshrined in law and was published in BOJ.
Another thing are the formalities on legal and procedural issues, which obviously does not abide by and appreciate, because it is the sole task of justice, but will respect what they come. It was Sandos right to appeal because it believed it had violated their constitutional rights and the reason they attend, according to this order of the Constitutional Court accepts that its request for precautionary suspension. Perhaps the final judgement is cancelling the same or perhaps not at the moment there is only this precautionary suspension that affects exclusively Sando.
We continue with our task, because there is a work plan that will last for seven to ten years. The jobs have been maintained and there was no more that the initial damage arising from the closure of the four quarries, but then gave the solution: the Special Restoration Plan which is running and working well.
What we signed is what will comply to the letter, we do not want to return to the past, just look at this, which is reforest the mountains as is being done, and the future, which is having recovered in seven years, and leave it green, that is what agreed between municipalities, regional government of Andalusia, employers and unions in January 2006 and thus meet the cost agree that much work. For nothing in the world think again witness the lack of quarries. "
