The processing of the new regulations for loading and unloading in the taxi service sector of Ibiza has not only remained at a standstill for the past year after the councils of the island closed an agreement with the Consell and the proposal was sent to the Balearic Govern for approval, but in recent months the technicians of the Balearic Ministry of Mobility have conveyed to their counterparts in the Consell their “doubts” as to whether they are the ones to assume this responsibility.
“We do not understand ,” says the second vice president of the Consell, Javier Torres, who stresses that, as the Consell de Ibiza does not have its own taxi regulations (this is being worked on, but Torres notes that it is “complex and takes time”), “the technicians of the Consell are clear” that the new loading and unloading order has to be processed by the Autonomous Community. In fact, Torres recalls that the last update of this order was approved by the Balearic Ministry of Mobility.
The insular loading and unloading order sets the rules of how services should be undertaken when a taxi driver operates outside their municipality (the agreed proposal does not change with respect to the current operation) and includes for the first time the regulation of the operation of GPS. Currently only municipal regulation exists and there is no regulation on how taxi services from other municipalities should operate via GPS. It also includes the updating of fares which have not been revised since 2013, not even with the rise in the CPI.
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