EU definitively approves its municipal plan against forest fires

The Cee City Council has given the final green light to its Municipal Plan for the Prevention and Defense Against Forest Fires (PMPDIF). The agreement was adopted in the extraordinary session of the Plenary on October 29, 2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña number 215, corresponding to November 10, 2026, under announcement number 2026/7267. The document bears the signature of the mayor, Margarita Lamela Louzán, dated November 5, 2026.

The plan is framed within Article 16 of Law 3/2007, on the prevention and defense against forest fires in Galicia, which requires councils to have a municipal prevention instrument for their territories. Its processing began with the provisional approval agreed upon by the Plenary in an ordinary session on August 7, 2026, published in the Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña number 153, on August 13, 2026 (announcement 2026/5313), which opened a public exhibition period of 20 business days.

External drafting and municipal agreement

The technical drafting of the document was not undertaken by the Council itself, but by the public company SEAGA (Empresa Pública de Servicios Agrarios, S.A.), as stated in the first point of the plenary agreement. The commission was supported by the agreement to which the Cee City Council is adhered, by plenary agreement on May 30, 2025.

The administrative file was processed under the municipal reference 2025/A006/000006, which was maintained from the provisional phase until the final publication. The public exhibition took place simultaneously in the Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña, on the notice board, and on the municipal electronic headquarters, and the text of the plan remained accessible on the Council’s portal (cee.gal) for the submission of contributions by affected persons and entities.

What the plenary agreement resolves

The agreement approved by the Plenary is articulated in four points:

• Final approval of the PMPDIF of the Cee City Council, now with firm character.
• Express authority to the mayor, Margarita Lamela Louzán, to carry out the subsequent procedures linked to the plan.
• Publication of the agreement in the Official Gazette of the Province of A Coruña and on the notice board of the municipal electronic headquarters.
• Communication of the final approval to the General Directorate of Forest Defense of the Xunta de Galicia, together with the supporting documentation of the resolution.

The regional communication is not a minor formality: it closes the administrative circuit between the municipal instrument and the competent body of the Galician Administration regarding forest defense, which maintains oversight over local prevention plans.

Other councils on the same path

The publication for Cee coincides in the same issue of the provincial bulletin with other resolutions of the same type, reflecting a wave of approvals of municipal prevention plans throughout the province. The Coirós City Council definitively approved its PMPDIF on September 9, 2026, through Mayor’s/Presidency Resolution 288/2026, file 2024/X999/000031, and reported the agreement on the same date.

For its part, the Val do Dubra City Council closed its file (2026/X999/000100) with a plenary agreement on September 17, 2026, published in the Official Bulletin of the Province of A Coruña on September 23, 2026. In these cases, the publicity of the agreements is based on Article 45 of Law 39/2015, on the common administrative procedure of public administrations, a regulation that also governs the public information of the Cee plan through Article 83.

Impact for residents

The approved plan is the instrument that organizes the prevention measures, special risk areas, and management obligations falling upon owners of homes and plots in forest surroundings within the municipal district of Cee. With the definitive approval, the City Council closes a process of more than two years since the adherence to the agreement and places the municipality in a position to demand and plan fire prevention tasks for the next campaign. From now on, any resident doubts regarding specific obligations will refer to the text of the plan, available on the municipal electronic office.

Source: Official Bulletin of the Province of A Coruña, no. 215, November 10, 2026, Local Administration, Cee City Council (official reference: announcement number 2026/7267).