Hunting: Cuenca notifies Seseña of a fine with a reduction for early payment

The Provincial Delegation of Sustainable Development of Cuenca has agreed to publicize the resolution for prompt payment issued in a sanctioning proceeding for a hunting violation, after personal notification at the interested party’s last known address proved unsuccessful. The resolution is published in the Official Gazette of Castilla-La Mancha (DOCM) number 207, dated October 28, 2026, in section III of Other Provisions and Acts, with the official reference 2026/7689. The announcement is dated October 21, 2026, and is signed by the provincial delegate, José Ignacio Benito Culebras.

Case details

The processed procedure is SANCI/26/231201/000253, initiated due to a hunting violation. The data made public by the Delegation are as follows:

• Interested party: 51929842M.
• Reference town: Seseña (Toledo).
• Content of the act: resolution for prompt payment.
• Resolving body: Provincial Delegation of Sustainable Development of Cuenca, under the Ministry of Sustainable Development of the Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha.
• Date of the published resolution: October 21, 2026.

The announcement does not detail the amount of the fine nor the exact percentage of reduction applied, details which only appear in the full text of the resolution, which the interested party must access by appearing in person. The terminology used—“resolution for prompt payment”—corresponds to cases in which the person under investigation pays the sanction voluntarily and within the deadline, which entails a reduction of the initially proposed amount.

Ten business days to appear

The publication replaces personal notification and sets a precise deadline for the affected party to gain full knowledge of the administrative act. The schedule and enabled channels are:

• Deadline: 10 business days starting from the day following the publication of the resolution.
• Office hours: from 9:00 to 14:00 hours.
• Email: ds-juridicos-cu@jccm.es.
• Telephone: 969178300.
• Location: Provincial Delegation of Sustainable Development in Cuenca.

The Delegation warns that the announcement is inserted in both the DOCM and the Official State Gazette, as required by the procedure when individual communication could not be carried out.

Regulatory framework of the notification

The publication is supported by articles 44 and 46 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations (BOE number 236, of October 2, 2015), which allow personal notification to be replaced by an announcement in official gazettes when the former is not possible.

On a material level, the sanction is framed within Law 3/2015, of March 5, on Hunting in Castilla-La Mancha, whose general application regulation was approved by Decree 56/2026, of September 29, published in DOCM number 190, of October 2, 2026. That text replaced the previous 2022 regulation, which was annulled by judgment number 234/2024 of the High Court of Justice of Castilla-La Mancha, which found a lack of the mandatory report from the Regional Hunting Council during its processing.

This practice is common in the Cuenca Delegation, which in recent weeks has published similar notices: DOCM number 198, of October 15, 2026, included three prompt payment resolutions from the same body in sanctioning proceedings, in that case for infractions regarding forest fires.

Impact for readers

The notification affects a resident of Seseña, a town in Toledo located more than 150 kilometers from Cuenca, which partly explains the difficulty of personal communication and the relevance of consulting the notice: the ten-business-day period runs from this publication, meaning that letting the period elapse without appearing or alleging what is deemed appropriate may consolidate the resolution in the administrative channel. The case also illustrates how the regional administration uses the official gazette as the ordinary communication channel when the address declared by the person under investigation is no longer operational.

Source: Official Gazette of Castilla-La Mancha (DOCM), no. 207, of October 28, 2026, section III — Other Provisions and Acts, page 37934 (official reference: 2026/7689).