López Aguilar believes that it is necessary to "face in a specialized way and with unitary criteria certain criminal modalities" the constitution of special prosecutor's offices, with competence throughout the national territory, among which is a specific one in matters of environment and urbanism.
López Aguilar recalled that, two months ago, the Government agreed to reinforce and provide means to the existing bodies, fully accepting the proposal, raised from the Prosecutor's Office itself, to create twenty-five new prosecutor positions.
Of these positions, two will be allocated to the direct assistance of the new prosecutor of the chamber delegated to the environment and urbanism, precisely to reinforce their dedication to territorial planning issues; seventeen will be integrated into the network of environmental and urban planning prosecutors, at a rate of one per Prosecutor's Office of the Superior Court of Justice. The remaining six will be attributed to the creation of new delegated prosecutors of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office in the territories that the Attorney General's Office deems necessary to provide with that figure, with some Autonomous Communities, such as Murcia, currently expressly requesting that a delegated prosecutor be assigned to their territory.
Likewise, the minister stressed that the framework of competencies between the Delegated Prosecutor's Office for the Environment and Urbanism and the Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office is well defined, so that the second should intervene only in those cases in which there is some kind of criminal organization, while the delegated prosecutor for the environment and urbanism coordinates all the activity of the Public Prosecutor's Office in its scope to the extent that the requirements are not met to attribute the competence to the first.
Thus, except in those exceptional cases, the territorial planning, which essentially affects the municipal sphere, would generally be outside the scope of action of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.
Finally, the minister recalled that in the Government's agreement to reinforce the environmental and urban planning prosecutor, in addition to the police units, the creation of a unit attached to the prosecutor's office in environmental and urban planning matters is contemplated, of technicians in environmental and urban planning matters, which may also provide service to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, in those cases in which it handles urban corruption matters.
Reciprocally, the units of the Tax Agency and the General Intervention of the State that are attached to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office, can support the work of the environmental and urban planning prosecutor.
