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The European Commission (EC) has refused this Monday to comment on the restrictions in Spain on travel due to Covid-19, but has recalled that Brussels recommends ensuring consistency between the measures applied to different trips.

"First, it is necessary to differentiate on the one hand the free movement between the Member States, which is the competence of the European Union, and on the other the measures against the virus within a Member State, which are national competence," he said in the wheel of the daily press of the EC the Community Justice spokesman, Christian Wigand.

But he added that the Brussels recommendations are important in this context.

"Since

the risk of transmission is similar for domestic and cross-border travel, Member States must ensure consistency between the measures applied to the two types

of travel," he said.

On the other hand, he added, the recommendations of the European Commission ask to take into account "the regional rather than national situation" in this area.

German tourists landed in Spain again on Sunday encouraged by the relaxation of restrictive measures by Covid-19 in the Balearic and Canary Islands in the face of Easter.

They did it before a few holidays in which Spanish citizens will have restricted mobility and will not be able to move between regions.

The Spanish Ministry of Health and the autonomous governments agreed at the beginning of the month to

close the perimeter of all the autonomous communities

, except for the two island territories, on those dates to avoid a fourth wave of the pandemic, after a few months with infections and deaths out of control.

Although foreign tourists will be able to visit the country at Easter, they will not be able to move from the region in which they land.

In addition, they must comply with the restrictions that weigh on them depending on their country of origin and the obligation to present a negative PCR upon arrival in Spain or to quarantine in some cases.

On this dissonance in the rules, the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism has pronounced this Monday.

In the Europa Press Tourism Forum, Reyes Maroto has defended the greater ease for the recovery of international mobility despite keeping the autonomous communities closed, except for the archipelagos.

As he has said, the type of transport that is used in most cases to travel between different communities within the Peninsula makes it difficult to control negative PCR.

Specifically, it has indicated that

"there is no control capacity" for domestic movements

"that does exist with international travelers who come through airports."

For this reason, he has pointed out that the perimeter closure adopted for Easter, agreed in the Interterritorial Council with almost unanimity - the Community of Madrid has opposed - is a "prudent" measure to combat the third wave of coronavirus, since that the disease data require such prudence.

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