To sanction the person responsible for an environmental infraction as well as to restore, where appropriate, the environmental damage caused.
General information
- Regional ministry
- Consejeria De Fomento, Vivienda, Ordenacion Del Territorio Y Medio Ambiente
- Governing board
- Direc. General De Medio Ambiente Y Cambio Climatico (DIR3: A06045079)
- Classification
- Sanctioning
- Subject(s)
- Environment
- Starting way
- Ex officio
- Target
- Citizens
- Legal entities, self-employed persons and registered professionals
- Administration and public employees
- Subject to fees
- No
- Languages in which the procedure can be completed
- Spanish
- Allow power of attorney
- Yes
- Links to web pages with specific information
- Type
No links are included
Requirements
Carrying out conduct classified as an infringement in environmental legislation.
Deadlines and submission
- Deadline for submission
It doesn't have.
- Submission deadline start date
- -
- Submission deadline end date
- -
- Periodicity
- Continuous
- Means of submission
- Online and in person
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- Online submission
- At the General Electronic Registry
- Art. 14. 2 of the Law 39/2015, of 1 October, of the Common Administrative Procedure of the Public Administrations, establishes the obligatory nature of the electronic management for certain subjects as, for example, a) The juridical persons, b) Entities without legal personality, c) Those who carry out a professional activity for which compulsory membership is required, for the procedures and actions they carry out with the Public Administrations in the exercise of said professional activity. In any case, within this group, notaries and property and mercantile registrars shall be included. d) Those who represent an interested party who is obliged to relate electronically with the Administration, e) The employees of the Public Administrations for the procedures and actions that they carry out with them due to their condition of public employee, in the form in which it is determined by regulation by each Administration.
Required documentation
- It is not necessary to provide documentation
Processing and resolution
- Instructor board
- Services of the Directorate-General for the Environment and Climate Change.
- Attributive rule
Article 4 of Decree 7372005, of 30 June, on the organic structure and modification of the employment relationships of the department of the Environment, and successive amendments.
- Reports or opinions
- No reports or opinions are required
- Resolution entity
- Director-General for the Environment and Climate Change, Minister for Development, Housing, Territorial Planning and the Environment or the Governing Council depending on the type of infringement.
- Attributive rule
- Art. 52 of the Law of Cantabria 17/2006, of 11 December, on Integrated Environmental Control.
- Artss. 12 and 49 of Law 22/2011, of 28 July, on Waste and Contaminated Soil.
- Artss. 12 and 111 of Law 7/2022, of 8 April, on waste and contaminated soil for a circular economy.
- Article 26 of Law 34/2007, of 15 November, on air quality and protection of the atmosphere.
- Art. 4 Decree 73/2005, of 30 June, on structure.
- Maximum deadline for decision
- According to applicable regulations
- Average deadline for decision
- According to applicable regulations
- Effects of the administrative silence or inactivity of the Administration
- Initiation ex officio:
- According to applicable regulations
- Does it put an end to the administrative procedure?
- No
Appeals
- Type
Appeal against sanctioning resolutions issued by the Director General of Environment and Climate Change and optional appeal for reconsideration in sanctioning resolutions issued by the Minister of Development, Housing, Territorial Planning and the Environment and the Governing Council.
- Board
Higher hierarchical body in appeal and same body in appeal for reconsideration.
- Deadline
- 1 month.
Regulations
- Regulation applied
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- Law of Cantabria 17/2006, of 11 December, on Integrated Environmental Control.
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- Royal Legislative Decree 1/2016, of 16 December, approving the revised text of the Law on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control.
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- Law 22/2011, of 28 July, on waste and contaminated soil.
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- Law 7/2022, of 8 April, on waste and contaminated soil for a circular economy.
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- Law 34/2007, of 15 November, on air quality and protection of the atmosphere.
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- Law 39/2015, of 1 October, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations.
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- Law 40/2015, of 1 October, on the Legal Regime of the Public Sector.
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- Law 5/2018, of 22 November, on the Legal Regime of the Government, the Administration and the Institutional Public Sector of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.
Do you need help?
The 012 General Telephone Information Service will be available 24 hours a day, every day of the year, according to the following timetable:
- Personal telephone attention by means of information agents, from 9:00 to 21:00 hours from Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays.
Mechanised attention, via voicemail, during other hours and on public holidays. - Incoming calls to the mailbox will be recorded and then, from the General Information Telephone 012, a response call will be made to the citizen to resolve his or her request for information.
- For telephone calls from outside the Autonomous Community of Cantabria you can dial 942 395 563 (from abroad +34 942 395 563); if you are calling from Cantabria, you can dial 942 395 562.
- This service is only available in Spanish.