Ultzama must regularize a zoological center reported by Seprona

The Ultzama City Council has requested a private individual to regularize the animals of a zoological nucleus existing on plot 3010 of polygon 3, in the area of Labaki, in Gerendiain, and requests a copy of the complaint report number 2026-100862-21, initiated by Seprona on September 20, 2026. The request is published as a notification edict in the Official Gazette of Navarra number 225, dated November 11, 2026, with reference L2614380. The administrative act is dated November 5, 2026, and is signed by the mayor, Martín M.ª Picabea Aguirre.

The announcement is inserted in section 6.1 of the publication, dedicated to notification edicts, and does not correspond to a sanctioning resolution, but rather to the procedure provided for in articles 42, paragraph 2, and 44 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations. The corporation itself justifies the procedure as personal notification to the interested party having proven impossible, such that the publication replaces individual communication.

The edict establishes the point of appearance at the offices of the Ultzama City Council, at San Pedro Street number 8, 31797 Larraintzar, Ultzama Valley, where the affected party may learn the full content of the communication and the request. The text specifies that the period to carry out the required action “will begin to be counted from the date of publication of this announcement in the Official State Gazette,” a reference that the document maintains despite its publication in the Official Gazette of Navarra.

A request with two requirements

The agreement submitted for notification contains two specific mandates for the owner of the operation:

• The regularization of the animals of a zoological nucleus already existing on plot 3010 of polygon 3, in the area of Labaki, in Gerendiain.
• The delivery of a copy of the complaint report number 2026-100862-21, carried out by Seprona personnel on September 20, 2026.

The edict does not detail the species or the number of animals affected, nor the type of facilities or the health status of the specimens, and does not quantify possible sanctions. It limits itself to ordering the regularization and requesting the complaint report that originated the municipal file.

File data and means of appearance

The identifying elements of the procedure published are as follows:

• Issuing body: City Council of Ultzama (Ultzama Valley), calle San Pedro number 8, 31797 Larraintzar.
• Interested party: person identified with NIF 44.406.949K, the only personal datum collected in the list of interested parties.
• Date of the act: November 5, 2026.
• Publication: Official Gazette of Navarra number 225, of November 11, 2026, pages 39904 and 39905.
• Official reference: L2614380.
• File cited in the complaint: 2026-100862-21.

Law 39/2015 establishes that, once the period has elapsed without the interested party appearing, the notification shall be understood as produced for all legal purposes, such that the requirement will be effective even if the recipient does not attend the municipal headquarters.

Gerendiain, a council of 72 inhabitants

Gerendiain is one of the fourteen councils that make up the composite municipality of the Ultzama Valley, along with Alkotz, Arraitz-Orkin, Auza, Zenotz, Eltso, Eltzaburu, Gorrontz-Olano, Ilarregi, Iraizotz, Suarbe, Larraintzar, Lizaso, and Urritzola-Galain. According to the list of populations published in the Official Gazette of Navarra number 174, of September 3, 2026, the council of Gerendiain had 72 inhabitants, while the Ultzama Valley as a whole totaled 1,597.

The plot subject to the requirement is located on land within the district of Gerendiain, in the area known as Labaki, within polygon 3, a rural area of the valley. The intervention of Seprona, the nature protection service of the Civil Guard, places the origin of the file in a surveillance operation carried out in mid-September 2026.

The processing remains open: the City Council has not communicated any subsequent resolution and the requirement constitutes the first act published in the official gazette. Any sanctioning or archiving agreement must likewise be notified to the interested party and, if applicable, published through the same channel.

The relevance of the case lies in the fact that it transfers to the official gazette a conflict affecting coexistence in a valley with a strong livestock character and the activity of an animal farm: the local institution does not act ex officio, but based on a complaint from Seprona, and the required regularization conditions the continuity of the activity on the plot. For the residents of Gerendiain and the rest of the Ultzama Valley, file 2026-100862-21 will be the reference by which it is resolved whether the installation complies with the regulations or if the case leads to a sanctioning procedure.

Source: Official Gazette of Navarra, number 225, of November 11, 2026, section 6.1 (notification edicts), pp. 39904-39905 (official reference: L2614380).