A few days ago the Valencian Government (Valencian Community, Spain) passed the new decret on plant conservation (Decree 70/2009, May 22, which creates and regulates the Valencian Catalogue of Threatened Flora, DOCV nr. 6021, 25.05.2009) which includes some improvements for te Valencian Plant Microreserves Network. The most important issue is the enlargement of the territory able to set up new PMRs, due that since 1994, these reserves only could be made on the emerged (oversea) regional territory -the sum of the three Valencian provinces: Castellon, Valencia and Alicante-; after lots of legal conflicts between the Spanish administration and the regional ones (as those of the Valencian Community), the Spanish Law 42/2007 (november 2007) on Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, redistributed the responsability on the coastal conservation, empowering the Authonomous Communities (=regions) to create protected sites and manage the biological resources of marine areas near their respective coasts. So, in a close future, the Valencian PMR network also could include marine microreserves, mainly thinking of the fine protection of plant communities hosting marine phanerogams (Posidonia oceanica, Zostera spp. etc.) and bentic algae. The Valencian Decree is only available in Spanish and Valencian/Catalonian languages:
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