Competencias para la reforma de la planta municipal

Abstract

In case a municipal amalgamation could be founded –and this is open and debatable– such a policy belongs to each Autonomous Community and not to the State. This follows from the regional jurisdiction, commonly exclusive, on “modification of local borders” or, more recently, on “territorial organization”. The State, through its core competence on the “the legal basis of public Administrations” may impact on the exercise of those regional powers. This effect does not reach a mandatory reduction of the municipal map. However, some measures to encourage voluntary mergers could be allowed, though always bearing in mind that the final approval of any merger is specific to each Autonomous Community and that the distribution of possible State grants to the merging councils belongs to each Autonomous Community

Keywords:

municipalities, administrative powers, municipal mergers