ITE · Aragon Planning Act, art. 260
ITE in Aragon: the periodic inspection and Zaragoza's ordinance
If you carry out an ITE in Aragon: the Planning Act covers predominantly residential buildings over 50 years old in municipalities of more than 25,000 inhabitants, every 15 years, and Zaragoza asks for it every 10 under its own ordinance. Here is the Aragonese rule, Zaragoza's and how you prepare the inspection in ArquiFlow.
The rule in brief
- Report
- The law calls it the periodic inspection of buildings; Zaragoza, the Inspección Técnica de Edificios (ITE). The report deals with the building's state of conservation (art. 260).
- Regulation
- Decreto Legislativo 1/2014, consolidated text of the Aragon Planning Act, art. 260, and municipal ordinances such as Zaragoza's (BOPZ, 31 October 2002).
- Buildings
- Predominantly residential buildings over 50 years old in municipalities of more than 25,000 inhabitants; planning or an ordinance may mark out other areas with their own duty, limited or not to listed or protected buildings (art. 260.1 and 2).
- First inspection
- The law sets no date for the first one. In Zaragoza, within the year after the building turns 50 from its construction or an equivalent full rehabilitation, or within 6 months if the city expressly requires it (ordinance, art. 31).
- How often
- The law, every 15 years (art. 260.1); in Zaragoza, within the year after 10 years have passed since the previous deadline (ordinance, art. 31).
- Who signs
- A competent technician, who describes the defects, their likely causes and the recommended measures in order of priority, and states how far earlier inspections' recommendations have been carried out (art. 260.3).
- Who files it, and where
- The law lets the town hall ask owners for the reports (art. 260.4). In Zaragoza, the owner files the report and the technical sheet, stamped by the professional college, and they are entered in the building technical inspection register (ordinance, arts. 32 to 35).
- Result
- In Zaragoza, the report states the favorable result unequivocally; one without a favorable result is not accepted, and the building does not count as inspected (ordinance, art. 35).
Official sources
- Decreto Legislativo 1/2014, Aragon Planning Act, art. 260boe.es
- Decreto Legislativo 1/2014 in the BOA (18 July 2014)boa.aragon.es
- Zaragoza: building conservation and ITE ordinance (BOPZ 31/10/2002)zaragoza.es
Updated November 1, 2026
The ITE in Zaragoza, step by step
Zaragoza receives the ITE through its e-office or at the planning department's registry, on its own forms. These are the pages a technician uses.
- The ITE procedure on Zaragoza's e-office
Who files it, with electronic ID or Cl@ve or at the planning department's registry, and which documents go with it.
zaragoza.es - The ITE report form
The report model the city publishes for the inspection.
zaragoza.es - The building's technical sheet
The sheet with the building's data that goes with the report.
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What sets the Aragonese ITE apart
What it checks in Zaragoza
The structure and foundations, façades and party walls, roofs, plumbing and drainage, with a location plan and photographs (ordinance, art. 33). Neither the law nor the ordinance asks for an accessibility or energy efficiency assessment.
Not filing it on time in Zaragoza
A sanctioning procedure opens and there is no rehabilitation aid; the city orders the inspection with 3 months to comply, then imposes coercive fines of 600 euros, up to three, and may have it carried out at the owner's expense (ordinance, art. 38).
The register and licences
Zaragoza keeps a public computerised register holding the planning data, the construction date, the works, the inspections and the defects corrected; a building with its ITE outstanding gets no licences, except for the works it needs to pass it (ordinance, art. 36).
The inspection and ruin
Having met the periodic inspection makes the owner presumed diligent if ruin is later declared, and repairs made since the last inspection count towards the ruin threshold (Aragon Planning Act, art. 261).
In ArquiFlow
In the technical inspection report you choose the ITE regime, the one for the municipal inspection of the state of conservation.
You grade each defect by element, with its likely cause and the measures you recommend, and the report records the conservation result; accessibility, which Zaragoza does not ask for, you can leave blank.
The report the owner files follows the city's form, with the technical sheet and the college's stamp in Zaragoza.
You choose the regime
Catalonia's IITE, the IEE (building assessment report), a municipal ITE or the Euskadi ITE (Decreto 117/2018). The report shows the building's details and the fields that regime asks for.
You record the defects
Each observation in the report carries the building element it affects: façades, roofs, structure, installations…
You grade them
Each defect carries its grade: minor, important, serious or very serious.
And you note the verdict
On an ITE, the report records the conservation verdict and whether the building meets the basic accessibility conditions.
Frequently asked questions
How often is the ITE carried out in Aragon?
The Aragon Planning Act sets every 15 years for predominantly residential buildings over 50 years old in municipalities of more than 25,000 inhabitants (art. 260.1). Zaragoza, under its ordinance, asks for it every 10 years.
What if the report is not favorable in Zaragoza?
It is not accepted: the report has to state the favorable result unequivocally, and until it does the building does not count as inspected (ordinance, art. 35).
Does ArquiFlow file the ITE at the town hall?
No. In Zaragoza the owner files the report and the technical sheet, stamped by the college, through the e-office or at the planning department's registry, which enters it in its register.