Costa Rica bill to regulate transport apps faces resistance
By Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica
(Machine translation)
Bill No. 21,228 sent by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT) to regulate paid technological platforms to transport people continues to gain opposition. This time, the Economic Affairs Committee on Tuesday, April 9, welcomed the president of the National Association of Land Transport and Allied for Integral Mobility (ASOTRAMI), Rigorberto Aguilar Solís, and the President of the Consumers Association of Costa Rica, Juan Ricardo Fernández, who criticized the bill. .
The president of ASOTRAMI, an organization that brings together conventional taxi drivers, acknowledged that they have been against government position and have had opposite criteria with other formal organizations of taxi drivers, in terms of the regulation of technological platforms. The group believes this is a subject that should not be regulated, since the State for many years has turned given taxi drivers the concession to provide public transport services, which means there should be no other segment that competes with the service authorized by the State.
"Since 1975 there is no private transport, we have a right of concession, the laws are not eternal and can change but before they will have to answer us for that right of concession," said the hierarchy of ASOTRAMI.
Aguilar affirmed that multinationals such as UBER "disguise themselves as collaborative mobility, when in reality they are companies that profit and provide the same services as taxi drivers, only outside the law."
For his part, Juan Ricardo Fernández, President of the Consumers Association of Costa Rica, said that he is living the same story of the year 2011, when taxi drivers and transport companies negotiated a deal without taking into account the consumer. Consumers of Costa Rica believes "the customer is always right," and in this case, according to the hierarchy of the institution, the government never summoned them or consulted them about the bill.
Fernandez emphasized the need for free competition and called on legislators to create a new text taking into account the needs of users and assessing the high fees established by the bill to be registered, and which would likely be passed on to consumers.
The deputies of the Economic Affairs Committee included the proposals and recommendations of both institutions in the file of the bill to continue analyzing the feasibility of the same and then issue the corresponding reports before its final assessment.
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