INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM, TRAVEL AND HOSPITALITY LAW I.- A PREVIOUS STEP TO LAW 3/2022, OF 15 JUNE: DECREE LAW 3/2022, OF 11 JUNE. Between February and June of 2022, a decree law and a law with the same title were published: urgent measures for the sustainability and circularity of tourism in the Balearic Islands. The first, in the form of a decree law, which was criticised because of its lack of debate in the Parliament, was approved on the 11th of February of 2022; the latter, in the form of a law, was approved on the 15th of June of 2022. Once the decree law was ratified, it started to be processed as a bill. This creates some issues for legal security in a rule with many obligations for companies in the tourism sector and with deadlines to be followed. The used formula was justified in the explanatory preamble of the first rule with these words: “in trying to justify the extraordinary and urgent need of approving this decree law, it is important to state, on top of everything that has been explained in this explanatory preamble about the need to implement protection measures for the environment, the consumers, and the users; and goals for social politics, that the financing mechanisms coming from the European Union, the Spanish state and the autonomous community stablish determined deadlines of application and execution of the financed measures”. Different economic aids to the sector made urgent approving this rule2. All the obligations that the law gives to tourism companies make the economic aids to carry them out especially important. After the pertinent parliamentary processing, Law 3/2022 of urgent measures for the sustainability and circularity of tourism in the Balearic Islands was finally approved on the 15th of June, with some changes from the decree law with the same name, but with the same budgets and fundamental aspects. Sustainability and circularity are the key and the basis of both rules. The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) defines sustainable tourism as: “tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the 2 For this matter, v. FERRER TAPIA (2022), Revista General de Derecho del Turismo, p. 2.
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