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Midnight on the Gran Vía in Madrid.

Most of the windows have the spotlights that point to the mannequins turned off, but the gigantic screens with which the garments that are sold inside the stores are announced

.

First day in which the energy saving plan is in force.

The Government has left the application of sanctions for non-compliance with the Royal Decree that regulates it in the hands of the autonomies, which could reach up to 100 million euros.

And theoretically, it is the officials who carry out the usual commercial inspections who must now guarantee that

, such as the nightly switching off of lighting and temperature limits.

In some municipal police, such as that of Madrid, they have already warned that

compliance with the savings plan because they have not been provided with "the necessary legal and competent tools."

They also add that they could not be guided either by the Regulation of Thermal Installations in Buildings (RITE) when imposing fines, because the application of this regulation is the exclusive competence of the communities.

«If we catch someone driving at 145 km/h on a road whose maximum speed is 120 km/h, we know exactly what the economic sanction is and the points on the license, because that is how it is cataloged in the Road Safety Law.

But not with this issue, because

that we can apply, ”explains a spokesman for the body of local agents in the capital.

To this must be added the deficit of the Madrid police force, which currently has a workforce of 5,600 people: "We have been asking the Government for three years to increase the replacement rate in order to have a greater number of troops."

For its part, in the Community of Madrid they point out that the regulations approved by Moncloa -which they intend to appeal to the Constitutional Court- what they do is establish "different thresholds" from those contemplated in the RITE

.

In other words: "It is still a modification of an existing regulation that is already being monitored."

"That is to say, that

, but under the new parameters set," they underline in the Executive of Isabel Díaz Ayuso, along the same lines as what has already been announced by the Valencian Community.

«The autonomies already have to guarantee compliance with the RITE with ordinary inspection plans already designed.

The supervision of compliance with this Royal Decree, if we add it to the work that has been done, undoubtedly adds more uncertainty and legal insecurity due to the improvisation of the central government, ”they add.

From Puerta del Sol they insist that it is Pedro Sánchez "who has imposed this Royal Decree and who, therefore, has to provide the autonomous communities, in charge of enforcing this measure, with

that are must be launched at the time of its application, since it is an unprecedented action in this area».

Given the "doubts" raised by the guarantee of its compliance, they add, they are going to address the Minister of Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, so that she "clarifies" what exactly she meant by "it is a first package of simple measures that can be applied flexibly.

In the last 10 days, Ayuso has gone from saying on Twitter that "Madrid does not turn off", implying that in the region she presides over, the lighting measure was not going to be applied, to denouncing that from now on "the The only shop windows in Europe that will be off will be those in Spain.

Specifically, those on Gran Vía, at least for now,

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