The plenary of Barcelona’s town hall has definitely approved this friday suppress the requirement to have the so-called ‘Responsible Civic Ownership Card (CTCR)‘, which allowed the owners of dogs take your pets without tying in spaces that will soon be specially enabled. To do this, modify the Ordinance for the Protection, Possession and Sale of Animals (OPTVA) from the city.
This is the step prior to enabling future ZUC (Shared Use Areas). The ZUC will be concrete spaces where theThe dogs will be able to walk without being tied, at certain times. It is not yet known when these areas will be released, although the forecast is that this calendar will be made public soon.
Third Deputy Mayor, Laia Bonethas explained that “the will of this government is to soon promote the ZUC, a hundred in allto provide enough recreational spaces for the dogs that today live in the city, more than 180,000, and to guarantee that 95% of families with a dog have a space less than 10 minutes from home. But, at the same time, we want to organize the spaces where these dogs can be unleashed in order to maintain a good coexistence with the other users of the public space.& rdquor;
The specific modification of the ordinance, approved by the Plenary in 2014, has been approved this Friday with the favorable vote of the municipal government, Junts, Ciutadans and the abstention of ERC, Valents and the non-attached councilor. The agreement, which incorporates the only amendment received, presented by the Junts group, will now have to be published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Barcelona, in the Municipal Gazette and on the municipal website.
Having the CTCR card was a requirement provided for in the ordinance that never materialized. “With its elimination of the regulations, Barcelona is advancing in the procedures to deploy the set of measures for driving dogs in the city provided for in the same regulations and whose main objective is to reinforce the compromised possession of animals & rdquor ;, has pointed out the consistory it’s a statement.
It should be noted that the adequacy of this ordinance will not affect those considered potentially dangerous dogssince in no case can they walk on public roads without tying up, as established by Law 10/1999, of July 30, on the possession of dogs considered potentially dangerous.
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Broadly speaking, the text states that the rights of animals must necessarily be complemented by the duties of their owners and, therefore, promotes the “good coexistence and civility” establishing that, in the future, dogs will have to be tied up in public spaces, except in spaces where this is explicitly indicated.
Specifically, as stated in the OPTVA, a future decree will have to establish the spaces reserved for pets, where they can go loose (Areas for Dogs (AG) and Recreation Areas for Dogs (AEG)), as well as the Shared Use Zones (ZUC), in which, at certain times, pets can walk without being tied up, with a minimum space in each neighborhood for their leisure.