Local autonomy and environment

Commentary on the Tribunal Supremo of 3 june 2011

Abstract

The right of access to the information as for environment does not understand of supervising for the technical personnel of a Town hall the execution of public works of the State declared of general interest. In the supposed present the Supreme Court comes to revoke a judgment of the top court of justice of Madrid on having understood that it is not necessary to attribute the rights that the Law 30/1992 grants the citizens in his relations with the administration to another public administration, since the suitable riverbed in order that such relations have virtuality they find in the articles four nine of the mentioned law. To the thread of this argumentation the supreme court outlines the rights of information and of access to records of files contemplated in the articles 35 and 37 of the law 30/1992, this way to deny that inside the same ones there could fit a request of visit of the condition of situation of the works competition of the condition effected by a local Administration.