Posición y funciones de los Estatutos de Autonomía en la STC 31/2010

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Miguel A. Aparicio
In a line similar to that proposed in the State Council Report of 16 February 2006 on modifications to the Constitution, the Constitutional Court Ruling 31/2010 has severely limited the constitutional functions of the Statutes of Autonomy while denying them any special legislative category outside those found in any other type of organic law. According to the jurisprudential doctrine of the declaration, it is clear that the Statutes of Autonomy are not adequate regulations for defining the powers and functions contained in the powers that they attribute to the respective Autonomous Communities, therefore although they can be “described” these provisions lack regulatory force. Neither can the Statutes contemplate a possible development of the Autonomous State, given that the constitutional categories that belong to it and even the sub-matters over which it exercises competent functions constitute an interpretative monopoly of the Constitutional Court. This set of limitations and inabilities mean that the Statutes of Autonomy cannot ensure an ambit of exclusive autonomous powers because, under any circumstances, the State has the power to regulate the corresponding matters using its horizontal powers, and moreover, with the effect of supremacy. And in the end, in relation to shared powers, the State can defined the basics in the amount of detail and under the form of regulations it considers appropriate (legislative, regulatory or executive). We are therefore looking at a new attempt to declare the process of autonomy as being closed, denying the Statutes of possible exercising the device principle and eradicating within them, in appropriate feedback, their regulatory strength and their constitutional functions of origin.
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bloc constitucional, bloc de la constitucionalitat, funcionsconstitucionals dels estatuts d’autonomia, interpretació constitucional, poderconstituent, posició dels estatuts d’autonomia en l’ordenament jurídic, principi dispositiu

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Aparicio, Miguel A. “Posición y funciones de los Estatutos de Autonomía en la STC 31/2010”. Revista d’estudis autonòmics i federals, no. 12, pp. 16-43, https://raco.cat/index.php/REAF/article/view/250409.

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