The Government will approve throughout 2022 a royal decree to transpose the European electronic toll directive to Spanish regulations and thus make its system compatible with the one used in each of the countries of the European Union.
The two main objectives pursued by this decision are to be able to travel across the continent with a single electronic device and facilitate the exchange of information on unpaid tolls in the various Member States.
The coalition Executive has included this royal decree in the 2022 regulatory annual plan of the General State Administration, which includes all the laws that it plans to approve throughout this year.
The Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda it has been proposed to give the green light to eight laws and 23 royal decrees, among which is included the one that will regulate the young rent bonus of 250 euros.
Regarding the royal decree on electronic tolls, whose approval date has yet to be defined, the document published on the occasion of its being made available to citizens explains that its intention is to “guarantee the interoperability of electronic toll systems installed on roads and Spanish motorways with those of other Member States of the European Union”.
However, the European electronic toll service (SET) It will be a complementary system to the national electronic toll services. and will not apply to non-electronic systems. Already in 2004, the Commission tried to carry out a similar regulation but without success.
The Spanish Government already transposed the 2004 directive by way of a royal decree in February 2006, but, as the Ministry argues, technological advances “have gone ahead of its regulation at European level”, so that they were gradually implemented by the different countries without being fully compatible with each other.
Now, the Commission has tried again and for this it launched a new directive in 2019 that had to have acquired the status of law in the different countries of the Union before October 19, 2021.