Canary Airlines decides to strike indefinitely From Monday, February 27, to protest the regional government’s “not responding” to regulation on the use of tachographs in the Canary Islandsas reported tonight by Fenadismer.
Spain’s National Federation of Transport Associations said in a statement that after “massive” demonstrations by aircraft carriers last November, it had agreed to open a negotiating table with the regional government “which is now on its deathbed”. This organization of small and medium-sized road transport companies is in this sense an act of the Canarian Government. demand to make the use of tachographs more flexible on the islands, taking into account the isolation feature“It has led Canary airlines to call for an indefinite strike that will predictably paralyze ports on all islands starting next Monday, 27th.”
Fenadismer recalled that the tachograph has been mandatory in the Canary Islands and Balearic Islands since 2010, due to a Royal Decree approved by the central government at the end of 2009, following agreements with autonomous governments. both archipelagos, replacing the previously existing arrangement that required it to be used only on the largest islands. This criterion was maintained after the approval of the new Royal Decree last year updating road transport activities outside the use of the tachograph device in the development of the new European Regulation on driving times and rest, which was approved by the European Union last September. July 2020.
Employers, however, European regulations allow the use of tachographs to be exempted for shipping on islands With an area of less than 2,300 square kilometers that would exempt all Spanish islands with the exception of Mallorca, “in practice neither the Canary Islands nor the Balearic Islands have so far requested the Spanish Government to use the said legal provision regionally in their respective territories”.
The association is of the opinion that the need for a tachograph in transport on island territory (Canary and Balearic Islands) due to its very small area “leads to bureaucratic difficulties and unnecessary investments that are not justified by the presence of problems or the presence of violations”. The regulations in question are due to the short distances covered and therefore the very limited driving times.” It was also emphasized from Fenadismer that “the obligation to use tachographs on the islands has not been proven to prevent accidents or violations, but has only a collection effect due to the sanctions usually imposed”.