The concession given to Marina Greenwich SA by the Valencia regional government to enlarge Campomanes port in Altea has been annulled by the Supreme Court in Valencia.The change has come about because the ammended plan for the project did not include a new environmental impact plan.

The environmental impact plan carried out for the original 1999 project was not valid for the ammended 2002 project plan.The Supreme Court has ordered work to stop straight away.Altea´s Town Hall has made the suggestion that the contractors make a restoration of the area to its original state.

The decision was made in a response to an appeal by environmental protection groups Ecologistas en accion,Greenpeace and World Wildlife Spain.It appears that these groups made an appeal in 2005 and it was rejected by the regional government ,which in their estimation was illegal as the two submissions for the port were quite different.The ruling also says that the fact that the regional government issued the same report for the two projects was wrong.When the regionañl government displayed the new 2002 plans and an environmental report they did not indicate that it referred to an earlier project.