2014_05_30_DER_Aula-Derecho-Foral

María Jesús Valdemoros, General Director of Economic and Business Policy of the Government of Navarra, defended at the University of Navarra that the Navarra-State Economic agreement "is an integral part of a system, not an alternative system, and operates in an institutional framework in which other solidarity mechanisms operate".

Valdemoros participated together with the Full Professor of Financial and Tax Law and president of the committee of Navarra, Eugenio Simón Acosta, in a new edition of the classroom Foral, which dealt with the legal and financial study of the agreement Economic of Navarra with the State, an instrument that regulates the financial autonomy of the Comunidad Foral within Spain.

The Director of Economic Policy of the Government of Navarre made special emphasis on the fact that the agreement of 1990 was a consequence of the new territorial framework of the Spanish Constitution of 1978, as well as of the Schools and competences of Navarre included in the Organic Law of Regulation of the Navarrese Foral Regime (LORAFNA). It also detailed the mechanism for calculating Navarre's contribution to the State, and emphasized the fact that Navarre assumes unilateral risks, as it considers variables that do not depend on the Comunidad Foral, as well as the solidary nature of the agreement.

Eugenio Simón Acosta began his speech by referring to reference letter to the concept of"historical rights" and to various rulings of the Constitutional Court in relation to the competences of Navarre, highlighting as a fundamental characteristic of the foral regime its agreed nature.

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He pointed out the difference between the agreement and the " Concierto", referring to its historical development since 1839 and since the Ley Paccionada of 1841, which he analyzed following the trajectory of the tax system in Navarre in the XIX and XX centuries, to conclude with the reference letter to the sentence of the Supreme Court of July 9, 2007, which points out what is and what has been the foral tax system and that it should be "of knowledge general in Navarre".

The classroom of Foral Law is a joint project of the Foral Government and the University of Navarra with the goal to promote the study, knowledge and research of Navarrese Law. It is also a forum for discussion on possible reforms or legislative initiatives. This project of training arose in 2007, and since then it has held 13 study conference in which nearly a thousand people have participated. Among other topics, the main developments in Administrative Law and taxation, the reforms of the regional law Nuevo or the legislative repercussions of historical events such as the conquest and subsequent incorporation of Navarre to the Crown of Castile or the promulgation of the Constitution of Cadiz have been discussed.