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of the city – and the constant improvement of the quality of life of all its inhabitants (environmental
protection and urban sustainability) through its widespread use.

However, when they become a reality, these great objectives need the capacity to compete and the
organization of the organization/provision corresponding to these public services. The achievement
of the objectives (implementation and development of the related services and infrastructures,
plus the control and evaluation of their follow-up) for consideration as an intelligent city thus
imposes the interweaving, competence and substantive, of generic titles (basically in urban and
environmental matters) and sectoral.

In this sense, in the Spanish system, the primary legislation of the Spanish local regime continues
to recognize as competences of the municipalities, even in terms of the legislation of the state or
the corresponding to Regional Government, generic nuclear matters in these objectives such as
urbanism, urban environment or protection of public health, along with other more specific ones
also clearly linked to the achievement of Smart Cities (such as the supply of household drinking
water and wastewater evacuation and treatment, road infrastructure, traffic, vehicle parking and
mobility, and urban collective transport).

The combination of compelling competence titles should allow a wide field of play and innovation
in the hands of local authorities to implement urban intelligence initiatives (beyond local services
that are legally qualified as mandatory).

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