Coalición Canaria requests the modification of the regulations for the rental of motorhomes and campers. The president of the Canarian Nationalist Group, David Toledo, spoke this Friday in the Works Committee of the Parliament of the Canary Islands to ask the Minister of Public Works, Housing and Mobility of the Government of the Canary Islands, Pablo Rodríguez, about the status of the regulatory change for the rental of motorhomes and camper vehicles. An initiative, he recalled, pending since the last legislature, and extensively worked on by the former parliamentarian, Jesús Machín, councilor in the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
Toledo has detailed that this issue has already been addressed through eight different initiatives, beginning with a Non-Law Proposal (PNL) approved in November 2020, and throughout 2021 and 2022, and until March 2023, multiple questions were asked and more PNLs were presented.
According to the Lanzarote parliamentarian, in March 2023, two months before the elections, the previous councilor stated that "everything is ready for the regulations to be modified."
The parliamentarian stressed the importance of regulating this activity, which became popular after the pandemic. "The Canarian transport law establishes requirements that are unaffordable to be able to develop this activity legally," he said. Among these requirements, he highlighted the requirement to have a minimum fleet of 20 motorhomes with a maximum age of one year, which implies an investment of close to eight hundred thousand euros.
The president of the Canarian Nationalist Group has also criticized the "requirement to maintain the fleet for seven years", calling it "incompatible" with any type of similar activity. "I do not know a single activity in our society that is subject to so many demands, so many requirements and that it is so difficult to get up to date with the Administration and be legal in the activity," he added.
Toledo concluded his speech reiterating the "urgency" of resolving this situation, reflecting his "concern" that the Government "facilitates the development of emerging economic activities and their adaptation to new forms of tourism in the Canary Islands, a vital sector for the economy of the islands".
For his part, the Minister of Public Works, Pablo Rodríguez, has announced that he will "study the modification of the regulations governing the activity for the rental of motorhomes" and stressed that the current decree in the Canary Islands to "exercise the rental of vehicles without a driver could be limiting access to the market".
Thus, the councilor has assured that the Ministry will initiate an analysis process with the aim of identifying possible obstacles and proposing solutions that allow "improving the regulation of the sector and promoting competition and the supply of services". "Once the project is available, it will be sent to the Transport Board for its consideration and processing as a draft amendment to the Regulation."
