Overview
- The Constitutional Court admitted the government’s challenge and froze key parts of the Valencian coastal law, including article 17, the first final clause, and an additional clause on a degraded‑shore inventory.
- The suspension takes effect for the parties from February 26, 2026 and will bind others once the order is published in the state gazette.
- The measures at issue sought to shield traditional coastal settlements, described as having ethnological value, from state shoreline boundary rulings known as deslindes.
- The court limited its review of article 17 to sets of homes, shops, or buildings linked to traditional trades within those settlements.
- The government argues the clauses breach basic coastal rules and constitutional limits, and a bilateral panel resolved many other disputes but left these ethnological nuclei unresolved.