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The Government delegate, Rafael González Tovar, today expressed his satisfaction that Murcia has a new Commercial Court (number two), which approved by the Government of Spain a little over a month and a half and whose constitution held this morning.

It will be recalled that approval was a proposal by the then Justice Minister Mariano Fernandez Bermejo, the meeting of the Council of Ministers on 13 February.

The Royal Decree approved that day authorized the creation of 15 courts of this specialty in Madrid, Malaga, Sevilla, Zaragoza, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Valencia, A Coruña, Murcia, Valladolid, Badajoz, Elche, Vigo and Burgos.

The annual cost of these 15 legal units within the program for 2009 amounts to EUR 2,548,961.52.

Of the new fifteen courts today, April 1, come into operation No.2 Málaga, No. 2, Sevilla, No. 2, Zaragoza, n º 2 de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, No. 1, Valladolid, No. 3, Valencia, No 2 of A Coruña, Madrid No 10 and No 2 in Murcia while the rest will do later.

Currently in Spain había40 commercial courts, so that once made those approved in February by the Government, will be 55 courts, representing an increase of 37.5%.

This is in response to the significant increase in workload facing judicial units, derived from the difficulties that currently flows through the economy, while advances in the development of judicial due to the volume of litigation of the courts in operation.

The selection of the locations where the new units will be located has been made by judicial analysis of workload data in conjunction with the figures input matters, adopted by the General Council of the Judiciary for this type of trial.

Source: Delegación del Gobierno en Murcia