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DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. 113 /XI
IT RECOMMENDS THE GOVERNMENT TO ADOPT LEGISLATIVE MEASURES
ON REAL ESTATE VALUATION MATTER DUE TO DECISIONS
ADMINISTRATIVE OR PUBLIC INVESTMENTS
Within the framework of the work developed by the Commission possible for the
political monitoring of the phenomenon of corruption and for the integrated analysis of
solutions with a view to their combat has been identified as critical area in which to
check unjustified enrichment phenomena as a result of the performance of
public entities, the phenomena arising from patrimonial valuations
significant resulting from the alteration of territorial management instruments or the
realization of structuring public investments.
Predicting on the Government's Programme the revision of the Solos Act understands the Assembly
of the Republic which cannot fail to be assessed the repercussion in the transparency of the
decisions of the entities of the central and local administration the indirect consequences in the
heritage of individuals from decisions in the areas of urban planning or the
publico investment.
Recent demographic developments indicate a stabilization of the population, or even
a gradual reduction over the next few decades. The majority of municipalities have
verified a reduction in population in the last two decades. Even in the areas
metropolitans of Lisbon and Porto verify-a global stabilization of the population
yet marked by the decline of central cores and the population increase in the
peripheral areas.
The analysis of the housing stock demonstrates the existence of significant number of
firecrackers, sometimes in sharp degradation, in the older urban areas and the
depletion of the market for new housing in the areas of urban sprawling.
It does not have a sense today, except in exceptional circumstances, the enlargement of the
urban perimeters and the revision of territorial management instruments by expanding the areas
potentially urbanizable.
Also the realization of major public investments, not least in the fields of
acessibilities and transport, translates many times by the creation of significant
appropriate patrimonial valuations by the owners of the surrounding areas
generating at times speculative phenomena with serious effects for planning
territory.
The awareness of the indispensability of limiting urbanistic speculation and appropriation
private of more-valuable investments generated by investments warranted the special forms of
taxation created when constructing the two crossings on the Tagus in Lisbon.
It matters so in the revision of the Solos Act to consider the profound changes
economic, social and demographic fact check in recent decades and prevent forms of
corruption of public decision-makers and of unjustified appropriation of more-valuable
speculative.
In these terms, and under the provisions of Article 156º of the Constitution of the Republic, the
Assembly of the Republic recommends to the Government:
1. That the enlargement of urban or urbanizable areas in the event of approval or
review of territorial management instruments, be conditioned by the
attestation of the absolute insufficiency of urban or urbanizable areas
existing in the face of the demographic, economic and social developments of the municipality.
2. That the inclusion of any parcel of territory in urban or urbanizable area
determine immediately the taxation in municipal property tax as
urban building.
3. That within the framework of the new Solos Act be provided for the taxation of the most-valuable
resulting from the significant alteration of the urban potential of buildings
relatively to the previously beholdant territorial management instruments.
4. That they adopt general criteria for the taxation of the most-valuable ones generated by the
major public investments, specifically by the new airport
international Lisbon, by the new road and rail concessions and by the
expansion of metropolitan networks.
Palace of S. Bento, April 14, 2010
The Deputies,