Puigverd de Lleida submits the revision of the waste ordinance for review

The Puigverd de Lleida City Council has formalized the request for a mandatory opinion from the Legal Advisory Commission regarding the proposed resolution of the ex officio review procedure of the municipal ordinance regulating the waste tax, approved on December 5, 2024. This is done through Mayoral Decree 2026-0095, dated November 9, 2026, published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida no. 218, dated November 13, 2026 (reference CVE BOP-2026_0_218_9617), which simultaneously suspends the maximum deadline for resolution. The affected ordinance has no longer been applied since July, when the Plenary agreed on its precautionary suspension.

The starting point is the agreement of the City Council Plenary in the session of July 8, 2026, which opened the ex officio review procedure for the modification of the Municipal Waste Ordinance and cautiously suspended its application. In that same agreement, the Plenary authorized the Mayor’s Office to request the opinion of the Generalitat’s consultative body. The procedure is processed under file number 182/2026 and is published on pages 1 and 2 of the provincial gazette.

An instruction closed on November 9

According to the decree, the instruction of the file has ended after completing these steps:

• Incorporation of the background into the procedure.
• Conducting the hearing for the interested parties.
• Certification of the result of the hearing.
• Issuance of the legal report from the Secretariat, dated November 9, 2026.
• Formulation of the proposed resolution, on the same November 9, which includes the request for the mandatory opinion.

The document is signed by the intervening secretary, Josep Enric Sullà Pérez, and bears the validation code 7PXNYZSRJR2222M9GRGPDYJKD.

Three months as the maximum stop of the count

The decree deploys the request in six resolutions, with direct effects on the procedure’s calendar:

• Request the opinion from the Legal Advisory Commission through the counselor of the Department of the Presidency, as required by the regulations for local entities.
• Suspend the maximum deadline for resolution from the moment the request is effectively entered into the competent department until the City Council receives the opinion, not exceeding three months; if it does not arrive within this period, the count resumes automatically.
• Transmit the complete file via EACAT, indexed, chronologically ordered, paginated, and authenticated, with original electronic documents or authentic copies with visible signatures and dates.
• Immediately communicate to the interested parties the effective date of the request and the suspension of the deadline, and subsequently the receipt of the opinion and the resumption of the count.
• Keep the precautionary suspension of the application agreed upon by the Plenary separate and unaltered.
• Report the decree to the Plenary in the first session it holds.

Two suspensions that must not be confused

The decree explicitly distinguishes between the suspension of the deadline for resolution and the precautionary suspension of the application of the ordinance. The former is based on article 22.1.d of Law 39/2015, which allows the count to be stopped between the request for a mandatory report and its receipt for a maximum of three months, and on article 11 of Law 5/2005, which provides for it when the opinion is mandatory and determining.

The second, which prevents the application of the ordinance, is maintained under the terms of article 108 of Law 39/2015 and remains in effect until the procedure is resolved. The request for an opinion is mandatory by mandate of article 106.2 of Law 39/2015 and article 72 of Law 26/2010, and its processing must go through the counselor competent in local administration, according to article 10.3 of Law 5/2005.

Impact on bills

The decision directly affects the residents of Puigverd de Lleida: the waste tax approved in December 2024 continues to be inapplicable while the Legal Advisory Commission does not issue the opinion, and the outcome of the procedure could end in the annulment of the modification. The calendar, however, remains conditioned by an external process that can extend up to three months from the entry of the request into the competent department, meaning the final resolution will not arrive, at the earliest, until after this period.

Fuente: Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida, no. 218, November 13, 2026, Local Administration - City Councils, pp. 1-2 (official reference: CVE BOP-2026_0_218_9617).