The new licenses for Uber or Cabify in the Canary Islands will have to wait

The plenary session of the Canary Islands Parliament has approved this Wednesday the commission's opinion that urgently modifies the Law on the Organization of Road Transport in the Canary Islands, in which the granting of licenses for vehicles for transport with driver (VTC) is extended for one year.

Last year it was agreed that the granting of licenses for vehicles for transport with a driver in the Canary Islands, where there are about 9,000 pending, is subject to environmental and sustainability criteria and traffic load, and the decision will depend on the councils.

The law was approved in 2007 and its modification is a consequence of a decree law that the Canarian government approved last year to adapt the regional legislation to a ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU of June 2023 that ended the proportion of one VTC license for every 30 taxis, and opened the way to environmental and management criteria.

The councils will decide on these criteria as indicated in the modification text that has been approved for parliamentary processing.

In Wednesday's session, the amendments of Vox were rejected, whose deputy Paula Jover has criticized that it is acting according to a "climate religion", and some proposals from Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarias were accepted, a formation of which Esther González has questioned that users and their right to choose the means of transport that best satisfies them are forgotten.

The deputy of the Socialist group Marcos Bergaz, who has asked that the time be used so that in a year it is not necessary to extend the moratorium.

The modification opinion affects other aspects of the law and the deputies agree that it would be pertinent to have a new road transport law.