2024-09-02 18:38:32
The Superintendency of Transport has intensified its inspection, surveillance and control work in the land freight transport sector, managing to require 3,023 companies for alleged regulatory non-compliance and resolve 1,483 first-instance investigations, with sanctions amounting to more than $40 billion.
For her part, the Superintendent of Transportation, Ayda Lucy Ospina Arias, stressed that “we are committed to ensuring that the public land freight transportation service in Colombia is provided under the highest standards of legality and equity. The implementation of new technologies and the strengthening of our inspection and control processes are crucial steps to ensure that companies comply with current regulations, thus protecting users and promoting fair competition in the sector.”
In compliance with article 2.2.1.7.6.2 of Decree 1079 of 2015 and Resolution 757 of the same year, as well as articles 29 and 65 of Law 336 of 1996, the Superintendency has deployed the Requirements Information System (SIR-ST), a tool that optimizes the collection of data and evidence, facilitating the monitoring of the regulatory obligations of companies in the sector.
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To date, the Super-transport has requested 1,138 companies that have allegedly failed to comply with the economic relations regime and the minimums established by the Efficient Cost Information System for Motor Freight Transport (SICETAC), according to the reports of the National Registry of Freight Dispatches (RNDC) corresponding to 2022.
In addition to this massive request and as a result of other administrative actions carried out, 257 investigations have been opened for the failure to provide information, in addition to non-compliance with current regulations on the matter, which are at different stages of the administrative sanctioning process. Work is also underway to establish the different scenarios and actions to be deployed according to the recurrence of companies during the 2023 and 2024 terms.
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