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Date Published: 23/09/2021
ARCHIVED - EU and Murcia consider making the Mar Menor a legal person
The proposal to give the lagoon personal rights has come from a petition signed by residents in Murcia
The European Commissioner for the Environment, Virginijus Sinkevicius, met with mayors and councillors from the Region of Murcia yesterday to discuss the current problems affecting the Mar Menor and the plan to grant legal personhood to the Mar Menor.
The meeting, which took place in San Pedro del Pinatar, focused around aims to instate environmental personhood to the Mar Menor lagoon so it can be treated as a legal personality with all the ensuing rights and protections. If approved, the move would be “historic and pioneering at the European level and, of course, exportable to other endangered ecosystems in the continent,” stated Antonio Luis López Campoy, Councillor for the Environment for Los Alcázares.
The push for legal personhood for the Mar Menor has been brought to the table by a citizens’ petition signed by thousands of residents and environmental organisations, which also alleged that the measures being taken so far by the Region of Murcia and the Spanish central government are insufficient and has called for the EU to force them to take more effective action.
Image: Ayuntamiento de Los Alcázares
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