Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista rejects the decree law on the organization of road transport recently presented by the Government of the Canary Islands. For its parliamentary spokesperson in this area, Esther González, it is a "mere patch" to the law in force since 2007 and, although NC-bc supports the moratorium proposed therein for the granting of licenses for transport vehicles with driver (VTC), it rejects the rest of the contents of the decree, which it accuses of being "very far from the integral law that the sector needs and demands."
The Government Council of the Canary Islands approved Decree Law 6/2024 of urgent modification of Law 13/2007, of May 17, on the Organization of Road Transport in the Canary Islands, at the end of last July, publishing it on August 12. Corresponding to the Parliament of the Canary Islands its validation or repeal.
Transport Board
A regulation approved by the Executive, according to Esther González, "against the unanimous agreement of the transport board, thereby evading the responsibility of the Canarian Government to approve a bill for the integral reform of the Canarian Road Transport Law, approved more than 17 years ago, and which was already born flawed."
She recalls, in this sense, that the last session held by the transport board unanimously agreed to approve a Decree Law, exclusively to regulate the suspension of the granting of new authorizations for vehicle rental with driver (VTC), until the island councils approve additional criteria for granting said authorizations and, in any case, for a maximum period of one year from the entry into force of the Decree Law.
Also proposing the processing of a bill for the integral modification of Law 13/2007, of May 17, on the Organization of Road Transport in the Canary Islands, whose draft was prepared and agreed upon with the sector by the Government of Progress.
VTC Moratorium
For the NC-bc parliamentarian, this decree law "contravenes" that unanimous agreement, "since in addition to the one-year moratorium for the granting of VTC authorizations, it includes the modification of 22 articles of the law, patching, once again, the legal text, which, since its approval in 2007, has generated more problems than solutions." Therefore, she concludes, from NC-bc "we support the moratorium proposed for the granting of VTC licenses, but, in no case, the rest of the content of the decree law."
This road transport law "affects numerous companies and thousands of workers, largely self-employed, of trucks - light or heavy -, buses, ambulances, transport vehicles with driver or taxis."
