The Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Morán, has defended the need for a "re-evaluation" of the wolf situation in Spain, when questioned about the differences in criteria between the central Executive and several autonomous communities, including Galicia.
"We must adapt the information to the reality of the moment," he indicated to the media, emphasizing that renouncing "an update" would be "tantamount to deceiving the European Commission."
Morán stressed that "a public information process has been opened," coinciding with his attendance at a visit to the works on the O Burgo estuary, and remarked that all ongoing work must serve as a basis for the upcoming Sectoral Conference which will be convened in the near future.
In this context, he recalled that "it is obvious to everyone that August and September were particularly conflictive in terms of fires throughout the Spanish northwest." "The impact on biodiversity cannot be underestimated," he pointed out, to maintain that "a re-evaluation of the species' situation" is essential, he reiterated.
Debate on Coastal Legislation
In parallel, and regarding the disagreement with the Xunta on coastal regulations, the Secretary of State reiterated that "the process of intervention and reform of the regulation" responds to an express requirement from the European Commission.
As he explained, "legal uncertainty is what we aim to overcome in the face of an infringement procedure from the European Commission which states that Spanish coastal legislation is not adapted to a correct transposition of a services directive, both in terms of the processing of concessions and their extensions."