Transport will meet this Friday with the VTC employers to discuss a license regulation

2023-06-21 14:34:39

Finally, the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (Mitma) will meet with the employers of VTC Feneval and Unauto this coming Friday, June 23 at 10:00 a.m. after denouncing that the Government was agreeing to a regulation of VTC licenses unilaterally with the taxi as a result of the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that invalidates the Spanish ratio of one VTC for every 30 taxis.

José Manuel Berzal, spokesman for the VTC section of Unauto, points out in statements to LA RAZÓN that both employers will attend this meeting “out of common sense, even arriving late.” The VTC employers regret that the Government has decided to summon the taxi sector first, after meeting yesterday and today with Antaxi, despite the fact that the VTC are directly affected by the CJEU ruling, which not only declares ratio 1 illegal /30, but also establishes that the request for a second license, in addition to the national one, can only be made under general interest and non-discriminatory criteria. Berzal fears that, in the worst case, Transport will appear at the meeting on Friday with a decree-law already agreed with the taxi without the possibility of modifying it. “We are willing to talk to defend the interests of the mobility sector in general, including the taxi, but what we are not going to accept in any case is a document that has already been closed,” says Berzal on behalf of the VTC employers, both with presence in the National Road Transport Committee (CNTC). The sector warns that it will not give in to impositions.

The employers had been criticizing that the Government was negotiating a regulation that directly affects the VTC without counting on them, although the call has finally arrived. After this step forward to negotiate with the VTC, the great one ignored in these negotiations has finally been the Spanish Taxi Federation (Fedetaxi), an organization that represents approximately 40% of taxi drivers, compared to the 60% that Antaxi concentrates, and a member of the National Road Transport Committee.

This Wednesday Fedetaxi has denounced in a statement its exclusion in meetings with the representatives of the taxi drivers. “It is an unprecedented fact that we do not know what causes it,” he said. “Let’s remember that in Spain there are only two representative entities of the taxi sector and that one of them is being left completely on the sidelines, which represents absolute contempt for the thousands of professionals represented by Fedetaxi,” denounces the organization.