THREAT OF EXPROPRIATION BY THE STATE STILL HANGS OVER PROPERTIES NEXT TO WATER IN PORTUGAL IN 2016.
The settlement of Paul do Mar in Madeira is 300 years old. Most of the private legal properties have existed on land next to the sea for hundreds of years. The homeowners including foreign citizens British and Dutch have legal documents proving that they own the properties and pay taxes to the State.
BUT, the threat to ownership of private legal properties next to water from the law 54/2005 – DOMINIO PUBLICO MARITIMO does not end until the authorities give the correct documents that the owners are entitled to confirming that:
1. Av. Dos Pescadores Paulense, Rua do Cais etc in Paul do Mar… are Municipal Roads
and
2. That Paul do Mar is a “Consolidated Urban Area”
The authorities have not made 1 and 2 happen for 2 YEARS, so the EUROPEAN COMMISSION is still investigating what the Portuguese authorities are doing to its own citizens and other European citizens with properties next to water in Portugal in this case Paul do Mar, Madeira.
Members of the ASSOCIACAO DE PROPRIETARIOS PAULENSE have been working very hard since 2014 and complained to the European Commission about the BREACHES OF HUMAN RIGHTS and obstacles to the Freedom of Movement of Capital in the EU Single Market if a Member State of the EU stops owners selling and transferring legal private properties next to water in an EU member state!
The European Commission will be writing to the Portuguese authorities again and so will the Associacao representing the legal private property owners next to water in Paul do Mar on this Portuguese National Law soon and its breaches of International and European Laws including Human Rights Laws to end the THREAT of expropriation by the State of their private legal properties.
Below is just one of the headlines of International press articles on ´the land grab´ published in 2014. T
Legal Private Properties next to water in Portugal expropriated by the State 