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The regional minister of Presidency, Interior, and Social Dialogue, Abel Bautista, the president of the General Council of the Judiciary, Vicente Guilarte, and the president of the High Court of Justice of Extremadura, María Félix Tena, closed the 2nd Ibero-American and European Agricultural and Livestock Law Course, organised by the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation and the General Council of the Judiciary, under the agreement signed between both institutions. (13/03/2024)

During his speech, Bautista advocated for the defence of the primary sector as the “main source of growth and wealth generation” in Extremadura and pointed out that “the countryside has begun to awaken demanding legal guarantees, coherence, and the redefinition of the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy)”. In addition, he identified depopulation and the lack of generational replacement as challenges for the primary sector.

In his speech, Bautista stated that the “judiciary and judges have become a true bastion against those who seek to transgress the laws without consequences”, adding that “without Law, without legal guarantees, without the rule of law, without respect for the Constitution, democracy is not possible”.

On his part, the president of the General Council of the Judiciary, Vicente Guilarte, showed his support for the agricultural and livestock sector by affirming that it is now more necessary than ever to “provide them with legal certainty”. Additionally, he expressed his support and that of the General Council of the Judiciary “for any continuous training activity”.

Referring to the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary, Guilarte Gutiérrez stated that it is necessary to “seek a system that facilitates judicial independence once and for all” because currently the path we are on “is dead and we must all react”.

Before the closing, the director of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste Foundation, Juan Carlos Moreno, intervened to introduce the presentation by the magistrate of the 2nd Chamber of the Supreme Court, Pablo Llarena Conde. He stated that the judge is the gateway through which one accesses from the theory of justice to the real world of the application of the law. He/she is the figure who “gives human meaning to the legal norm by solving a problem”. In this sense, he affirmed that desirable justice can only be made credible “by judges performing their duty, which is to serve order, the orderly regulation of life, with the application of Law, doing so in the calmest and most impartial manner possible”.

This activity, which is part of the state training plan of the General Council of the Judiciary, aims to give relevance and visibility to a sector that has been little explored from the perspective of legal science, especially from an international dimension.

The course is co-directed by the president of the High Court of Justice of Extremadura, María Félix Tena Aragón, and by the director of Yuste Foundation, Juan Carlos Moreno, and counts with the collaboration of the Notarial College of Extremadura and the College of Property, Mercantile, and Movable Property Registrars of Spain.