The Inspection Service of the Directorate General for Mobility and Land Transport immobilised 12 vehicles between 2 and 4 August, imposing a total of 12 sanctions worth 21,012 euros as part of the Inspection Plan against intrusion in the Public Passenger Transport sector at Palma airport.

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These were VTC vehicles with authorisation from Extremadura that had been providing transfer services, basically to and from Palma Airport.

According to the Inspection Service, these vehicles had not reported any public passenger transport services in VTC vehicles in their autonomous community – Extremadura – in the Register of VTC Services of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA). In addition, they exceeded the maximum period for the relocation of VTC vehicles from other autonomous communities in the Balearic Islands, set at 18 days, when the presence of these vehicles had already been detected since June. They also exceeded 20% of services outside their community in a three-month period, given that in this case, they were providing 100% of the service outside their territory. Finally, two of these vehicles did not have any VTC transport authorisation.

On 2 August, the Inspection Service of the Directorate General for Mobility began to report and immobilise the illegal activity of these vehicles in the Balearic Islands, in accordance with the provisions of Article 141.39.1 of Law 16/1987 on the Organisation of Land Transport.

As a result, a total of 9 complaints have been made against these delocalised vehicles for providing public passenger transport services in VTC vehicles from Extremadura outside their community, exceeding the maximum period for delocalisation (€9,009), 2 complaints for providing public passenger transport services without transport authorisation (€8,002) and 1 complaint for breaking the vehicle immobilisation order (€4,001).

“The Inspection Service will continue to monitor, report and sanction this type of infringing behaviour on a daily basis until it ceases and all VTC vehicles operating in the Balearic Islands do so within the legal framework, eradicating any type of intrusion in the sector,” explained the Director General of Mobility and Land Transport, Jaume Mateu.

These actions are part of the Inspection Plan against intrusion in the public passenger transport sector at Palma airport and on the island of Ibiza, and against intrusion in the freight sector 2022, which is being promoted by the Ministry of Mobility and Housing. This plan includes 122 actions at Palma airport by the Inspection Service of the Directorate General of Mobility and Land Transport in collaboration with the Civil Guard, Local Police and AENA. These actions consist of random checks during all time slots, including weekends, and are carried out by teams of up to four agents, depending on availability and the control tasks to be performed. The main objectives of the inspections include the detection of persons and vehicles that may be carrying out unauthorised passenger transport services, as well as the control of VTC vehicles.