Marta Andreasen MEP visit to Spain to help ABUSES cases in AUKEN report.

Marta Andreasen( UK MEP) is determined to help us on the Spanish “abuses” issue, she is planning to come to Spain to meet with some of those who have complained to her (and other MEPs) about problems they have been having here recently, principally with respect to their property ( whether they stem from land law, licence issues, Coastal law, etc.). Her visit would be in the near future. Ms. Andreasen speaks English and Spanish. She will have very limited time and may get no furthur than Andalucia. Time will be short but If you have serious suggestions for the visit or are prepared to assist in arranging for a meeting with her I encourage you to contact Richard King richard.king@europarl.europa.eu

Question to be asked in the European Parliament (possibly) on 24Feb.

The European Parliament has called three times for the Spanish Government to come to the assistance of foreign property owners, most recently in an own-initiative report from the Petitions Committee adopted in March 2009 (P6_TA(2009)0192). ((AUKEN REPORT )) It recalled that Parliament, as the budgetary authority, may decide to place funding set aside for cohesion policies in the reserve as a means of persuading a Member State to end serious breaches of the rules and principles which it is obliged to respect as a result of the application of EU law, until such time as the problem is resolved. Parliament recalled also that the Commission is empowered to suspend structural funding to the Member State or region concerned, and to establish corrections in relation to projects in receipt of funding which are subsequently deemed not to have fully complied with the rules governing the application of the relevant acts. Problems of second-home-owners persist, partly because of divergent views on governance. The European Parliament has called three times for the Spanish Government to come to the assistance of foreign property owners, most recently in an own-initiative report from the Petitions Committee adopted in March 2009 (P6_TA(2009)0192). ((AUKEN REPORT )) It recalled that Parliament, as the budgetary authority, may decide to place funding set aside for cohesion policies in the reserve as a means of persuading a Member State to end serious breaches of the rules and principles which it is obliged to respect as a result of the application of EU law, until such time as the problem is resolved. Parliament recalled also that the Commission is empowered to suspend structural funding to the Member State or region concerned, and to establish corrections in relation to projects in receipt of funding which are subsequently deemed not to have fully complied with the rules governing the application of the relevant acts. Problems of second-home-owners persist, partly because of divergent views on governance. The Spanish Presidency has shown a readiness to listen to concerns on this matter coming from several political groups. Does the Council agree that every effort should be made to see that this subject is resolved under this Presidency? What concrete initiatives will it pursue, and when? Marta Andreasen UK MEP

Debate in EU on Spanish Coastal law and -Urbanistic- Abuses on the 24 FEB 2010

Write to your MEP´s today and ask them to support a debate in the EU Parliament on Spanish Coastal law and the AUKEN report on the 24/25 FEB. On monday 8 Feb, in the European Parliament, Marta Andreasen (MEP UK)tried to put a debate on the housing abuse in Spain onto Parliament’s agenda. The Spanish delegations in the EPP and the Socialist parties persuaded their groups to vote against so the result was 69 to 216 against her proposal. She has requested that the debate be re-tabled for the February 24th-25th part session, and the request already has the full support of the Greens. In order to balance the Spanish opposition it would be a good idea if you could write an e-mail to your MEP see:- http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch.do;jsessionid=1AA782A3A2D2013FA4D0608D571A707F.node1?language=en