The Minister of Transportation, Guillermo Reyes, representatives of drivers and users of the mobility applications and José Daniel López, the leader of Alianza In, the union of the same, met, this Wednesday, February 1, to install a work table and advance in the construction stage of the bill that seeks the regulation of applications in Colombia.
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According to Reyes, The bill that was in progress in the Superintendency of Transportation is suspended Y “only one will be filed until a dialogue of all parties is carried out”.
The meeting established a schedule of regional hearings to address the issue and other discussion tables led by the Ministry of Transportation, Labor and the Ministry of ICT, to discuss the necessary regulation of mobility platforms.
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“The dialogue is full of differences, but we reiterate the purpose of working together to defend the right of Colombians to choose how to mobilize”, stated José Daniel López, who also reiterated the importance of regulating and not prohibiting the operation of mobility apps, since the income of nearly 100,000 drivers and more than 8 million users would be affected.
At the meeting, the drivers explained that people prefer mobility by these means, since, “For example, in the case of women who feel safer on the platforms, we ask for no more exclusion and also an end to the persecution by the authorities for drivers and users”.
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In a meeting with the Government and the drivers who use platforms, we agreed:
1 The filing of the bill of law is SUSPENDED @supertransportuntil there is no consensus on apps. pic.twitter.com/ExzzV5v7iK
– José Daniel López (@lopezjosedaniel) February 1, 2023
The Ministry of Transport will maintain and promote the national table with the union of individual taxi-type transport services, so that in a maximum of two months the adjustments to the public policy are built that strengthens its current conditions.
(See: Ministry of Transportation calls drivers of mobility apps to dialogue).
The ICT Minister, Sandra Urrutia, pointed out that the communications portfolio is willing to participate in more dialogue sessions, in order to mediate, advance legislation and reach agreements in the collaborative economy.
“Colombia deserves to have a legal framework that accompanies the reality offered by technology and laws and regimes should not ignore its use. The principle of network neutrality would be wrong and here we must promote the care of people and the use of these applicationsUrrutia added.
The tables will seek to build a public policy on the use of platforms in transport, in its different modalities, in which the representatives of all the actors (direct and indirect) will participate, for the construction of solutions that contribute to the improvement of the service to the users.
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Meeting to define the future of mobility apps.
Ministry of Transport
Minister Reyes was emphatic that the government’s idea has never been to exclude people Y “The realities cannot be ignored, the provision of the transport service must be regularized, the construction process of the draft bill will continue but it will only be presented for consideration by the Congress of the Republic, once it is agreed and a consensus is obtained with all the actors“.
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