Central level
State competences
- Responsibility for national mining and energetic basic legislation (Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge);
- Planning of energy saving and conservation;
- Planning of energy tariff regulations;
- Guarantee of energy supply in case of necessity;
- Authorisation of construction, functioning, exploitation, ceasing of exploitation, dismantling and closure, as well as change of ownership of nuclear and radioactive infrastructures of first category, with a trans-regional character;
- Modification of period and quantities related to the first phase of the cycle of nuclear combustible;
- Solving of files and subjects related to mining rights, research and exploitation of hydrocarbons; (State Secretariat for Energy)
- Planning transport of energy;
- Sustainable energies: development of the Plan de Acción Nacional de Energías Renovables [National Plan of renewable energies – PANER in its Spanish abbreviation] and of the Plan de Acción de Ahorro y Eficiencia Energética [Action plan for saving and energy efficiency] each for 10 years.
Regional level
- Development and implementation of national legislation;
- Authorisation for electric infrastructures within the AC territory;
- Authorisation for transport of energy within the AC territory;
- Planning at autonomic level in the field of sustainable energy, energy efficiency within the frame of national plans.
- The Statutes of Autonomy reformed from 2006 onwards (namely Catalonia, Andalusia and Aragon), also include the following competencies:
- Development of quality rules for energy supply services.
- Promotion and management of renewable energies and energy efficiency.
- Participation (via reports) in inter-territorial services related to production and transportation of energy.
- Participation in regulation and planning at state level of the energy sector that affects the Autonomous Community.
Local level
Provincial competences
- Securing coordination and provision of municipal services.
Municipal competences
- Public lighting;
- Planning and fostering energy efficiency at local level.
Responsible ministries/bodies
Central
Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (Secretariat for Energy)
Sources
Spain, International Energy Agency, Country Review
La energía en España Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo, Madrid, 2010. P.9 [Energy in Spain. Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Madrid,2010.p.9].
Ley consolidada 51/1997 de 27 de noviembre del Sector Eléctrico [Law 51/1997 of 27 November 1997 on the electric sector with amendments].
Ley consolidada 34/1998 de 7 de octubre del sector de hidrocarburos [Law 34/1998 of 7 October 1998 on the hydrocarbons sector with amendments].
Ley 2/2011 de 4 de marzo de Economía Sostenible. [Law 2/2011 of 4 March 2011 on the sustainable economy]
Arzoz Santisteban, Xabier (2014), La distribucion de competencias en materia energetica: bloque de constitucionalidad y jurisprudencia constitucional, RVAP, num. 99-100, p. 441-463.
