The Ministry of the Interior rules out new moratoriums on the effective entry of the new documentary record of travelers, so starting next Monday, December 2, tourist accommodation and vehicle rental companies must provide the State security forces and bodies, up to a total of 28 new customer data that until now were not mandatory to provide. “There are no reasons for new delays,” sources from the department led by Fernando Grande-Marlaska stated this Wednesday regarding the entry of the Royal Decree. The hotel sector threatened on Wednesday to take the procedure to court. The regulations have been in force since the beginning of 2022, but since then its mandatory compliance has been postponed due to complaints from tourism companies – the last extension was carried out in October -, who claim that the new registration is detrimental to their businesses. In response to this, the Interior has assured that in the coming days a ministerial order will be put out for public consultation that will regulate the process in order to make it easier for accommodations to register data. The procedure will be open for two weeks, during which the different actors in the sector will be able to contribute ideas to improve the royal decree. The department of Grande-Marlaska defends, in any case, that the new procedure is endorsed by the Council of State and the National Data Protection Agency. Related News standard Yes Revolt in the tourism sector against the requirement to request personal and banking data to travelers from Marlaska Antonio Ramírez Cerezo Starting next Monday, hotels, travel agencies, tourist apartment managers or car rental companies must be registered on the SES.Hospedajes platform and contribute up to total of 42 customer details, including bank details. Interior sources assure that this is data that companies already collect in the normal course of their operations and that in no case will they be required to provide information that they have not been able to collect. Interior defends that the new regulations do not have a collection or sanctioning objective, although the Failure to comply would entail fines of between 601 and 30,000 euros if the violation is serious (it would be the worst case because very serious violations are not contemplated) and between 60 and 600 if it is slight, as reflected in the Citizen Security Law. From the department of Marlaska they specify that it was necessary to execute the new registry because the current regulations are obsolete. They point out that the creation of the overnight stay registry has existed since August 1959 and in the case of vehicle rental control, the ministerial order dates back to 1974, both of a pre-constitutional nature. The platform will be mandatory to use starting Monday, but it was already being used by thousands of companies, they say from the Interior. According to the data provided by the Ministry, 4.77 million user data linked to 61,540 hotel establishments, 1,994 travel agencies, 222 digital platforms and 1,720 motor vehicle rental companies have been recorded. Based on these data, it has been possible to locate 18,584 people for whom there was a search and arrest warrant both nationally and internationally. «This registry is a police instrument for the prevention and fight against terrorism and organized crime. The data collected is essential for the security forces and bodies,” concluded sources from the same department. Hotels, incredulousThe confirmation that next Monday the rule will be effective has once again raised a cloud of dust – once again – in the sector. hotel sector, in which they also consider it meaningless that a ministerial order is developed after the entry of the new registration procedure. «The only meeting we have had with the Interior was on October 4 and the previous one was in 2023; “We have not had any more meetings, nor have they responded to any letter from Europe or any association,” laments the general secretary of the Cehat hotel association, Ramón Estalella, who even doubts that the Marlaska department is going to launch the ministerial order. after three years promising it to the sector. «If what they are saying were true, they would have called us; “They would have answered our letters and responded to the requests to the Secretary of State,” adds the hotel representative. Cehat has already communicated that it is preparing legal measures against the new rule, and the Valencian hoteliers gathered at the Hosbec employers’ association will also join this complaint, as reported yesterday.Travel agenciesThe same regret or more is conveyed from the travel agencies, since they understand that the law for the protection of citizen security from which the new decree emanates did not take travel agencies into account, as transmitted yesterday by the main sector association CEAV. Interior, however, defends the inclusion of the sector in the regulation because “we cannot allow it to be born with loopholes that the alleged perpetrators of criminal acts can use from the beginning to avoid being controlled.” From the rest of the agency employers, Acave, Fetave and UNAV also attack the step taken by the Interior and say that it represents a “no response” to the motion against the measure approved in the Senate and to the non-law proposal approved by the majority of Congress on October 23, which urged to suspend the application of the rule and “open a new process of dialogue with the actors in the tourism sector.”
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