Constitutional Court Section

Full. Judgment 87/2019, of June 20, 2019. Appeal of unconstitutionality 5334-2017. Filed by the President of the Government in relation to various precepts of the Law of the Parliament of Catalonia 16/2017, of August 1, on climate change. Powers on general organization of the economy, ports and hydraulic exploitation, environmental protection and mining and energy regime; limits to the taxing power of the autonomous communities: partial nullity of the autonomous legal precepts that define the concept of “building with almost zero energy consumption”, regulate carbon budgets to mitigate climate change and sectoral policies for energy, infrastructure and transport and mobility, create a climate fund, set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and declare the Mediterranean a zone free of hydrocarbon prospecting, extraction and exploitation; consistent interpretation of the precepts relating to the purposes of the law, the interconnection of water supply networks, the reduction of polluting vehicles and the emission rights trading regime.