The PSD requested this Friday a parliamentary assessment of the decree-law that extends the deadlines for municipalities to include soil classification standards in their plans, considering that the changes are insufficient and do not correct government breaches.
In a statement, the PSD indicates that it has submitted “a request for parliamentary consideration of the Government Decree-Law that modifies the Legal Regime of Territorial Management Instruments” and runs until December 31, 2023 “the term to include in the municipal and inter-municipal plans the classification and qualification norms of the soils”.
A request for parliamentary consideration is a way for MPs to attempt to put an end to the validity or modification of a decree-law of the government.
In the released statement, the Social Democrats consider that “the amendments presented” by the executive with the decree-law in question “are not only not sufficient, but also do not correct the non-compliance in which the Government finds itself”.
For the PSD, the Government “intends that the municipalities review their Municipal Master Plans, under penalty of losing access to community funds.”
However, for the revision of the Municipal Master Plans to be approved, the municipalities must comply with the regional and national plans, which are the responsibility of the Government and which, in many regions, are not only not in force, but have not been adapted the program under the Legal Regime of Territorial Management Instruments”, reads the note.
The Social Democratic deputies thus defend that “it is at least controversial that the Government, which has to set an example, does not repeatedly review and adapt the national and regional plans to the current legal regime.”
The statement released by the PSD comes after the Social Democrats presented a bill on June 9 that proposed the extension, until August 31, 2023, of the deadline for municipalities to present revisions to the plans in question. , preventing municipalities that did not finalize the documents from being excluded from accessing community funds.
A few days later, on June 15, the Government approved, in the Council of Ministers, a decree-law that extended this period until December 31, 2023, arguing that the objective was that municipalities did not suffer “the consequences that they would suffer the suspension of their requests for European funds”.
For the Secretary of State for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, André Moz Caldas, who was speaking at a press conference, the suspension of these candidacies could “significantly delay” the fulfillment of a “set of public investment objectives in charge of the municipalities and that are in the national interest.
However, it is important that the municipalities use this new deadline and be able to complete these processes,” André Moz Caldas stressed, insisting that “it is very important that this additional margin be effectively used.”
In the previous regime, it was stipulated that, “if before March 31, 2022”, the first consultative meeting in the field of the revision of territorial plans or a procedural conference would not be held “due to an act attributable to the municipality or association of the municipalities in question. “the right to request community and national financial aid would be suspended” that are not related to health, education, housing or social support, until the conclusion of the procedure for the modification or revision of the territorial plan in question, without the conclusion of program contracts”.
Source: Observadora
