sive air operation using satellites and
drones. The unmanned aerial vehicles
revealed improvements to people’s
houses that they had failed to declare
to the tax office, such as extensions
and swimming pools. The unprecedented investigation, which began in
2014 has generated extra takings of
€1.3 ($1.4 billion) for the Land Value
Tax (Impuesto sobre Bienes Inmuebles). Spain’s tax office estimates that
the fraud occurred in as many as 8.9
percent of the houses registered on
Spain’s municiple registers, or padrónes. For full story see: The Local
Denia gets two “Black Flags” for
beach water pollution
The organisation “Ecologistes en Acció del País Valencià” has given the
Denia beaches of Punta dels Molins
and Punta del Raset black flags for
their waters exceeding legal pollution levels. The same organisation
also analyses the situation with sew-
age treatment works and has given 42
black flags to water treatment works
throughout the region - which do not
meet parameters established by the
European directive 91/271. This list
includes the Xàbia sewerage plant.
From: La Marina Plaza
Denia and the University of Alicante to set up environmental and
marine research centre in the Mongó Natural Park.
The objective of the research centre is to conduct research, development and innovation, education,
counseling, outreach and awareness
in the environmental field. The official name of the research centre is
ESCIMO-Dénia, (Estación científica
Montgó-Dénia) and it will be based
in the House of IRYDA, in the natural park Montgó. The University of
Alicante will develop activities of interest to both institutions, including
studies related to protected natural