The team of administrative lawyers within the Public Law Department of ARPA Abogados Consultores offers consultative, preventive and contentious advice services, both to private clients (individuals, enterprises, etc.) and public clients (councils, provincial councils, municipal associations, public companies, etc.) on the different fields of administrative law, especially administrative and contentious-administrative appeals, expropriations, fines and penalties, public contracts, subsidies, public companies, urban planning, etc.
Administrative Law AREA SERVICES
RESOURCES
Administrative claims and appeals handled by or before the Administration, as well as contentious-administrative appeals and incidents conducted in courts and tribunals of contentious-administrative issues, on matters such as:
- Urban Planning: Processing licences, challenging urban agreements, expropriation records, violations, sanctions, fines…
- Environment: Authorisations, spills, noise, emissions, waste, fines…
- Municipalities, Provincial Councils, Municipal Associations: Challenges, sanction proceedings, licences, ex officio reviews, local goods…
- Public Tenders: Resources in awarding public tenders, challenges to any of the clauses.
- Taxes and Taxation: Tax inspections, repayment of undue amounts paid.
- Goods: Mines, hydrological public domain (waters), mountains, ports, coasts, communal lands…
- Sanction Proceedings: Environment, urban planning, health, traffic.
- Property liability of the administration.
- Data Protection: Proceedings before the Spanish Agency of Data Protection.
- Public Subsidies and Aids: Refunds, reductions.
- Expropriations: Public utility, better appraisal.
LOCAL ADMINISTRATION
ARPA Abogados Consultores’ Public Law Department, made up of a team of lawyers and consultants for municipalities, municipal associations, minor local institutions (municipal councils…), local public companies, autonomous agencies, etc., intervenes to support them on matters such as:
- Drafting contracts, agreements and ordinances.
- Consulting regarding their organisation (meetings, agreements, minutes, calls, etc.).
- Public procurement: Contract documents and procedure.
- Creation of linked and dependent entities (autonomous agencies, public companies, public entities, etc.).
- Administrative procedure.
- Local Tax Authorities: Taxes, special contributions, ordinances…
- Election and interaction of local public service administration models.
- Challenges: Procedures and defence through the administrative and contentious-administrative channel, appeals before the Navarre Administrative Court (TAN).
- Records for the property liability of the administration.
- Drafting of legal reports.
- Legal system, organisation and local entities’ operation.
- Public goods: Communal land, roads, infrastructure and public equipment.
- Patrimonial goods of the Administration.
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
In terms of public procurement, intended for both private and public clients, the team of administrative lawyers of ARPA Abogados Consultores provides services such as:
- Drafting documents of general or particular economic and administrative conditions.
- Public projects and infrastructures.
- Participation in contract awards.
- Advice on dispute resolutions resulting both from preparing and awarding procedures and public contract enforcement.
- Advice on dispute resolutions resulting both from preparing and awarding procedures and public contract enforcement.
- Public contracts of other entities and contracting authorities, apart from the Public Administration.
- Drafting of reports and legal opinions.
- Appeals and complaints before recruitment boards and the Central Economic-Administrative Tribunal of Contractual Appeals.
- Contentious-administrative appeals.
EXPROPRIATIONS
- Expropriations: Urban planning, public infrastructure, mining…
- Advice during the different phases of the expropriation procedure, both regular and urgent.
- Declaration of public interest and need to occupy.
- Drafting of reports and legal opinions.
- Claims for a better appraisal, appraisal sheets and expert reports.
- Reappraisal of expropriated assets.
- Recapturing expropriated assets.
- Contentious-administrative appeals against decisions of the Provincial Expropriation Jury.
SUBSIDIES
Intended for private and public clients, ARPA Abogados Consultores provides services such as:
- Searching for aids and subsidies by activity area.
- Processing subsidies.
- Administrative claims for refunds and reductions of subsidies.
- Violations and sanctions.
- Drafting reports and legal opinions.
- Lodging administrative appeals.
- Lodging contentious-administrative appeals.
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
MINING
See Mining
