Supreme Court dismisses extraordinary review, allowing water law penalty reduction for pre-punishment environmental remediation.

The Supreme Court dismissed the Minister of Justice's extraordinary review against the Supreme Administrative Court's decision. The Supreme Administrative Court ruled that a water utility company could reduce its monetary penalty because it had removed the cause of the fine by installing sewage treatment facilities before the penalty was imposed. The Supreme Court agreed that the law's purpose is to stimulate such investments, rejecting the argument that pre-existing remediation automatically disqualifies a facility from penalty relief.