The Balearic government wants to contribute to landscape protection with a change in the law. Environmental sins will soon no longer be subject to the statute of limitations, which primarily affects property owners with illegal extensions and extensions. These can be prosecuted without the prospect of a statute of limitations. There will no longer be a time limit on the prosecution of environmental offenses. In the future, environmental offenders will have to pay high compensation fines to compensate for the damage they have caused - regardless of how long ago the offense was committed.
Should defendants make an effort to repair the damage - for example, by deconstructing illegal additions - before being found guilty, the fine would be 40 percent lower.
On Mallorca, it is not uncommon for property owners to convert or expand their properties without a valid building license. Many speculated so far on the fact that their offense remains undiscovered at first and they can not be prosecuted later for it. The left-green regional government fights exactly like the likewise left-green led island council of Mallorca for years against it. In recent years, for example, the island council has had numerous illegally built properties demolished.
At the moment, however, it is only a draft law, but it will certainly come into force in the near future.
