The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Infrastructure of the Community of Madrid has opened a sanction file for a very serious offense against the company Prestige and Limousine, a Cabify subsidiary that currently performs the shipping service, after verifying that "it is a company that it is not authorized for the transport of merchandise and that the service is provided with tourism vehicles ", which would not be conditioned for the performance of this type of activity. The very serious type penalty ranges from 4,001 to 6,000 euros.

This sanction file has been opened as a result of the pulse that this company has had with the Community of Madrid and with the department led by Ángel Garrido, who had issued a request that the company stop "immediately" providing its new shipping service , released this month in the central region, with a vocation to establish itself in other parts of Spain and consisting of the movement of products or merchandise through the trunks of VTC vehicles, in full confinement of this health crisis.

Cabify derived the Envíos business to a subsidiary, PyL, and renamed it Envíos by PyL, accessible through the company's application. As EL MUNDO announced, the Ministry again notified Cabify that it required a license or authorization to carry out transport duties and that this type of activity could never be carried out using tourism-type vehicles.

"According to data from the Registry of Transport Companies and Activities, the company Prestige and Limousine is the holder of VTC transport authorizations, that is, it is authorized to carry passengers but not freight, " said the Ministry on Thursday. in a statement to which this newspaper has had access.

The department led by Garrido, from Ciudadanos, recalls that the Land Transport Management Law only contemplates the transport of merchandise in vehicles built and equipped for this purpose , a requirement that Cabify has already emphasized both in its first request and in the subsequent notification, as well as in this last communication of the sanctioning file. According to the General Vehicle Regulations, passenger cars are "specially designed and built" for the transport of people, stresses the Ministry.

After verifying that Prestige and Limousine is a company authorized for the transport of passengers and that tourism vehicles are not built and equipped to carry out the transport of goods, says the Ministry of Transport, it considers that "the company must stop providing and advertise this service immediately. " Failure to do so, the Spanish mobility platform would incur a "very serious" offense, with fines that could reach the aforementioned amount of 6,000 euros and that could be applied repeatedly over time if the activity continues.

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