How can pleadings be lodged against local Administration action?
Pleadings or appeals lodged against local Administration action will depend of the type of action, decision or rule that is being appealed. Therefore, when the citizen in question is involved in the proceedings (a driving offence, requesting a subsidy or public aid, requesting a permit, etc.) the exact rule governing the proceedings and all the different stages involved have to be analysed, as well as when the interested party can lodge pleadings and once such proceedings have been completed, how and to whom can an appeal be filed. There are two basic types of appeals, administrative, which are filed to the administration itself, and the contentious-administrative, which are filed when no other administrative appeal is possible, before the Courts of Justice. When it concerns general proceedings (for example publication of the General Urban Development Plan) or that of adopting rules, for example, adopting the Tax Regulations that govern Property Tax known as ” Impuesto de Bienes Inmueb
