General Law on territorial and urban planning of 29 December 2000.

The purpose of this Law is to regulate land planning, land urban planning and construction regime throughout the national territory, in accordance with the principles recognized in article 27 of the Constitution. The arrangement of the territory is understood by the set of criteria that are expressly formulated, and the rules, plans and provisions related to land, urban planning and construction, with a view to achieving an adequate relationship between territory, population, activities, services and infrastructures. The planning activity encompasses all the urban planning and its management, the land regime, the execution of works aimed at the urbanization, building infrastructures, and services, etc.
The planning activity, according to the purposes to be reached, entails the following faculties: 1. In relation to urban planning and its management: a) Drafting the planning guidelines, and establishing supra-communal planning, general regulations, parochial urban planning and their units of action, partial urban planning plans, special plans and particular provisions regulating subsidiary legislation and rehabilitation. b) Placing the production and residence to distribute them better throughout the territory. Classify the territory into urban land areas, establish the percentage of land that can be occupied by constructions, the volume, the shape, the number of plants, the type and the destiny of the buildings with general criteria of ordering for units of action. c) Establishing the public fares, the means of transport, communication and service infrastructures, the location and characteristics of the centres and services of public and social interest and the free spaces in proportion to the collective needs, etc.
The planning and parochial plans distinguish and characterize non-urban land in all or some of the following divisions: forestry land, agricultural land and livestock, water and natural protection areas, environment of assets of historical and cultural interest, areas exposed to natural risks and land without specific designation.