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.

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.

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: 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.

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.

See Energy and Environment

See Mining