The scope of the reform operated over the Spanish State Law 6/1998, about regime of urban land and valuations, by the Law 10/2003, of 20 of May, of urgent measures of liberalization in the real estate sector

Abstract

On May 21, 2003, a new law was published in the Official Spanish Gazette that reforms five state articles of Law 6/1998, of April 13, on Land Regime and Valuations. The spiral of legislative reforms and judgments of the Constitutional Court in which the legal urban planning has been immersed seems to have no end.

In this case, the reform has come hand in hand with an ordinary Law, which has not made use of the formula of the Decree-Law that had been used so extensively to make adjustments to the urban planning regulations, such as the case of Royal Decree-Law 4/2000, of June 23, which interestingly had exactly the same name that is now used for the new reform law, the 10/2003, of May 20, of Urgent Liberalization Measures in the Real Estate Sector and Transportation, although different content as we will see now.