The Spanish Committee of Representatives of People with Disabilities (Cermi) has urged the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and the 2030 Agenda to approve the royal regulatory decree “as quickly as possible” European disability cards and reserved parking. The objective is that “Spain can be the first country in the European Union to transpose the 2024 directive which creates the two titles”.
In a document of proposals that Cermi sent to the department headed by Pablo Bustinduy, it highlights, with a view to the first drafts of the future standard, “the essential questions that, in the opinion of organized civil society, the royal decree should contain”.
Thus, in terms of normative technique, Cermi plans “not to repeal Royal Decree 1056/2014”which regulates the parking card reserved for people with reduced mobility”, but only “modify it to incorporate the new elements of the directive“, he underlines, “its content, as well as the competence of the State in the matter, would be preserved, in light of the judgment of the Constitutional Court 8/2017, of February 2”.
At the same time, they demand that the royal transposition decree “includes a directory of carpets, spaces and activities, not exhaustive, only indicative, in which It is possible to apply the advantages and special conditions granted by the cardfor the knowledge and easy assimilation of the potentially beneficiary disabled person”.
And this “expressly establishes as holders of rights that grants the European Disability Card to those who benefit from a disability condition of 33% by legal assimilationso that they are not excluded. “For this, Cermi considers that “it would be sufficient to determine that the subjective scope of application of the new royal decree is that of all disabled people defined in article 4 of the general law relating to the rights of disabled people, without distinctions or differentiations.
They also propose to the ministry “to integrate into the state standard free use of reserved parking spaces regulated by municipal ordinance, in the event of pricing, for holders of the European parking card.” This would, they argue, “ensure free use throughout the national territory, as a fundamental condition of equality”.
Another proposal from Cermi in this sense is that “autonomous communities and cities be recognized the power to expand the list of spheres, domains and general activities in which there are special advantages or conditions for holders of the European Disability Card, in the exercise of their specific powers and within the framework of their responsibilities.
Finally, the Committee requests that the new regulatory standard be used to modify Royal Decree 1052/2022 on low emission zones“to expressly declare that holders of the European parking card will always be able to access it free of charge” in any municipality in Spain, “regardless of the environmental rating of the vehicle they use. And they propose to file a complaint with public administrations which “enable technological systems for universal card recognition so that the user does not have to bear excessive administrative burdens”, such as having to register the entry in each municipal register of low emission zones.
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