REGPEX Profile
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Spain - Cantabria


The Parliament of Cantabria (Parlamento de Cantabria) was established in 1983.

Number of Members of Parliament
39.

Length of the parliamentary mandate
Four years.

Mode of selection of the Members of Parliament
Direct election with proportional allocation of seats. For further information, see the Statute of Autonomy of Cantabria, available here (ES) and the Electoral Act, available here (ES).

Population included in the constituency of the regional parliament
593.121 inhabitants (in 2011).

  1. Competences (legislative and non-legislative), legal bases and policy areas where the regional parliament is active
  2. List of committees/sub-committees or working groups in the regional parliament 
  3. Committees in charge of scrutinising subsidiarity
  4. Staff in charge of subsidiarity scrutiny  
  5. Subsidiarity check
  6. Cooperation/coordination at the regional level  
  7. Cooperation/coordination at the central level  
  8. Cooperation/coordination at the cross-regional level 
  9. Cooperation/coordination at the EU level 


Competences (legislative and non-legislative), legal bases and policy areas where the regional parliament is active  

Legislative: The legislative competences of the Parliament include inter alia transport, fishing, industry, tourism, culture and youth. Moreover, the Parliament is responsible for approving the regional budget. For further information, see Articles 24 and following of the Statute of Autonomy of Cantabria (see link above).

Non-legislative: These competences include inter alia the control of the Governing Council and the appointment of two Senators representing the Region in the National Parliament. For further information, see the Statute (see link above).


List of committees/sub-committees or working groups in the regional parliament
The Parliament includes Standing Committees inter alia on:

  • Presidency and Justice;
  • Innovation, Industry, Tourism and Trade;
  • Public Works and Housing;
  • Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development;
  • Economy, Finance and Employment;
  • Environment, Land Use and Planning;
  • Education, Culture and Sports;
  • Health and Social Services.

For further information, see here (ES).

Committees in charge of scrutinising subsidiarity   
N/A.

Staff in charge of subsidiarity scrutiny  
N/A.

Subsidiarity check  
Nature (selective/systematic): N/A.
Procedure: N/A.
Cooperation/coordination at the regional level 
 

N/A.
Cooperation/coordination at the central level 
EU draft legislation is forwarded by the Spanish Parliament (Cortes Generales) to all Spanish regional parliaments. In turn, the latter may transfer resolutions on the infringement of the subsidiarity principle to the Spanish Parliament within four weeks. The legal basis is found in Act 8/1994 of 19 May 1994, as amended by Act 24/2009 of 22 December 2009, regulating the Joint Committee for European Affairs and bringing it in line with the Lisbon Treaty.


Cooperation/coordination at the cross-regional level 
There is some cooperation through the Conference of Presidents of the Autonomous Parliaments of Spain (COPREPA), which provides a forum for the presidents of the regional assemblies to share experiences. In order to facilitate the subsidiarity monitoring by regional parliaments and the cross-regional cooperation in this field, the Parliaments of Aragon and Navarre have published a guide for drafting opinions in the context of the early warning system (Guía para la elaboración de los dictámenes autonómicos en el sistema de alerta temprana, available here (ES)). This guide was presented and discussed at the March 2011 meeting of COPREPA.


Cooperation/coordination at the EU level  
The Parliament participates in CALRE (Conference of European Regional Legislative Assemblies).

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