In a ruling of 28 October 2013 the Director of the Basque Institute of Public Administration (IVAP) has published the decision of the Jury of the “Jesús María Leizaola 2013” Prize for research into Basque autonomy, to award it ex aequo to Gemma Martínez Bárbara, Head of the Tax Policy Service of Bizkaia Provincial Council and a volunteer contributor to this website, for her paper entitled “Tax Harmonisation and Provincial Taxing Power in the Basque Autonomous Community” and to Saioa Artiach Camacho, who also works for the Provincial Council, for her paper entitled “Procedural and Substantive Aspects of the Rural Lease Contract in the Civil Law of Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa from 16th to 19th Centuries. A Means to Manage the Equity of the Individual“.