The choose denies the MNAC’s declare to ask the ministry for a report on Sijena’s work | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

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The Huesca choose in command of the Sijena case has denied the declare of the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC) to ask the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain to organize an knowledgeable report on the switch of the mural work to the Huesca monastery.

In an order launched by the Government of Aragon, the choose considers that “there is no place” for the MNAC’s request, which requested that the IPCE, depending on the Ministry of Culture, put together a conservation undertaking associated to the change of location of the work at present exhibited in room 16 of the museum. For the choose, the issuance of this report just isn’t pertinent “at the present procedural moment.”

He provides in his order, dated October 27, that, as soon as the allegations have been made by all of the events concerning the schedules supplied for the return, he’ll determine on the setting of the deadline and the dedication of the way of compliance with the sentence, whose “effective compliance” he desires to ensure.

For the Government of Aragon, this order “evidences the judge’s willingness to execute the sentence and not enter into discussions about whether or not it is possible to execute it, given that this is already res judicata.”

On October 6, the MNAC requested the choose to authorize this report on the best way wherein the switch of Sijena’s work must be carried out, which the Catalan museum insists on contemplating as “very complex.”

Exclusion of the Generalitat

On the opposite hand, in a second order dated October 23, the choose has upheld the enchantment of the Villanueva de Sijena City Council and has agreed that the Generalitat of Catalonia doesn’t intervene within the judicial execution of the process.

The choose concludes that the Generalitat can not intervene as an executed celebration since it isn’t a debtor within the government title and the instances supplied for in article 538 of the Civil Procedure Law don’t exist.

At first, the choose accepted the Government’s look as an adhesive celebration to the execution, understanding, based on the arguments of the Catalan aspect, that it had a reliable curiosity within the means of returning some items declared property of cultural curiosity on account of its powers in issues of heritage.

The Sijena City Council appealed this resolution, to which the Aragonese Executive adhered, understanding that the work are a part of the heritage of Aragon and, due to this fact, the Generalitat lacked reliable curiosity in that portray, arguments lastly upheld by the Justice of the Peace.

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