«Igualar por abajo» La doctrina del Tribunal Supremo sobre la responsabilidad del Estado derivada de la ley contraria al Derecho comunitario y de la ley inconstitucional

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«IGUALAR POR ABAJO». LA DOCTRINA DEL TRIBUNAL SUPREMO...
«Igualar por abajo». La doctrina
del Tribunal Supremo sobre la
responsabilidad del Estado
derivada de la ley contraria al
Derecho comunitario y de la ley
inconstitucional
JOSÉ MARÍA RODRÍGUEZ DE SANTIAGO
José María Rodríguez de Santiago
Catedrático de Derecho Administrativo
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
RESUMEN: ABSTRACT
Este trabajo comienza con un análisis crí- This paper commences with a critical
tico de la doctrina del Tribunal Supremo, analysis of the Supreme Court doctrine
según la cual para reclamar responsabili- according to which acts of enforcement of
dad del Estado legislador derivada de la a specific law are not required to have
declaración de inconstitucionalidad de been previously challenged in order to
una ley no es exigible haber impugnado claim liability (damages) of State legisla-
los actos de aplicación de esa ley. A partir ture that is derived from a subsequent de-
de ahí se llega a la conclusión de que la claration of the unconstitutionality of this
solución correcta en los casos que se law. Bearing this in mind, the conclusion
examinan no era la de facilitar los requisi- reached in this paper, in the cases under
tos de la acción de responsabilidad del consideration, is that the right solution
Derecho europeo para asimilarlos a los would have been not to relax the austerity
de la acción de Derecho interno, sino, al of European law requirements as regards
contrario, como resultado de un verda- State liability action in order to assimilate
dero diálogo entre Tribunales sobre el them into the internal law stipulations for
fondo de las cuestiones, la de asimilar los the same action but rather, by means of
requisitos de la acción de Derecho in- a genuine dialogue between the courtson
terno a los más exigentes de la acción de the substance of the issues involved, to
Derecho comunitario. adapt the national law requirements of
the liability action to the more demanding
conditions of European law.
Palabras clave: Responsabilidad del Estado legislador por incumplimiento del Dere-
cho comunitario, responsabilidad del Estado legislador derivada de ley inconstitucio-
nal, principio de equivalencia, tutela primaria y tutela secundaria.
Keywords: Liability of State legislature for the breach of European law, liability of State
legislature for unconstitutional law, principle of equivalence, primary and secondary
protection.
Fecha recepción original: 22 de febrero de 2011
Fecha aceptación: 2 de marzo de 2011
ISSN 1579-6302 141REDE 38/Abril-Junio – 2011
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SUMARIO
1. DOS CASOS DE LA JURISPRUDENCIA RECIENTE SOBRE RESPONSABILI-
DAD DEL ESTADO LEGISLADOR: «TRANSPORTES URBANOS» (STJ DE 26
DE ENERO DE 2010 Y STS DE 17 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2010) Y «SALARIOS
DE TRAMITACIÓN» (STS DE 2 DE JUNIO DE 2010)
2. CRÍTICA A LA DOCTRINA DEL TRIBUNAL SUPREMO SOBRE LA INEXIGI-
BILIDAD DEL REQUISITO DE HABER IMPUGNADO LOS ACTOS DICTA-
DOS EN APLICACIÓN DE LA LEY INCONSTITUCIONAL PARA PEDIR RES-
PONSABILIDAD DEL ESTADO POR LOS DAÑOS CAUSADOS POR
AQUÉLLA
3. LA IDEA DE LA PROTECCIÓN PRIMARIA Y DE LA PROTECCIÓN SECUNDA-
RIA FRENTE A LA ACTUACIÓN ESTATAL CONTRARIA A DERECHO
4. UNA RELECTURA DEL ART. 40.1 LOTC A LA LUZ DE LAS IDEAS DE PRO-
TECCIÓN PRIMARIA Y PROTECCIÓN SECUNDARIA
5. EL FUTURO PROBABLE: NO SOLO DESAPARECE EL REQUISITO DE HA-
BER INTENTADO LA PROTECCIÓN PRIMARIA, SINO QUE SE «IGUALAN
POR ABAJO» TODOS LOS REQUISITOS DE LA ACCIÓN DE RESPONSABILI-
DAD ESTABLECIDOS EN LA JURISPRUDENCIA DEL TRIBUNAL DE JUSTI-
CIA
6. LA NECESIDAD DE RECONSTRUIR LA DOCTRINA JURISPRUDENCIAL
DEL TRIBUNAL SUPREMO SOBRE RESPONSABILIDAD PATRIMONIAL
DEL ESTADO LEGISLADOR DERIVADA DE LEY INCONSTITUCIONAL
7. SOBRE LA COMPETENCIA DEL TRIBUNAL CONSTITUCIONAL O DEL TRI-
BUNAL SUPREMO PARA DELIMITAR LOS EFECTOS DE LA DECLARACIÓN
DE INCONSTITUCIONALIDAD DE LA LEY Y, EN SU CASO, PARA ADMITIR
EL EJERCICIO DE ACCIONES DE RESPONSABILIDAD DERIVADA DE LA
LEY INCONSTITUCIONAL
8. CONCLUSIÓN
9. BIBLIOGRAFÍA CITADA
142 ISSN 1579-6302 REDE 38/Abril-Junio – 2011

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