Acuña assures that the only thing the ruling says is that "since the City Council is not the owner of the land where the camel transport service is carried out, it cannot approve an ordinance regulating the service." According to the mayor, "this will not mean anything that wasn't already happening."
The only possible effect, according to the first mayor, is that the provisions on the disciplinary and sanctioning regime may become invalid.
Acuña points out that the City Council has always been the mediator between the camel drivers and the Timanfaya Park. She believes that this ruling will not change the way this service is managed from National Parks in terms of the administrative concession. Approximately forty people work in the camel transport service and more than one hundred administrative authorizations have been granted.
The Supreme Court issued a ruling on December 12 rejecting the City Council's appeal against another ruling by the TSJC in which the ordinance regulating the service provided by the camel drivers, approved by the Council in 2001, was annulled.
The City Council had been providing camel tourist transport services in the Timanfaya National Park by virtue of a contract of May 9, 1986, in which it was granted the "organization and regulation of the service".
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