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It has approved a Royal Decree that extends the obligation to tour operators and also to non-professional individuals
MADRID, 26 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Today’s Council of Ministers has approved a Royal Decree that extends to tour operators, digital platforms and non-professional individuals the obligation to identify clients from whom they rent accommodation or vehicles to the State Security Forces and Bodies.
According to the Government, until now the regulations required to communicate the data of their clients, among other economic sectors, to the companies dedicated to providing, through price, accommodation (hotels of any category, pensions, campsites, apartments, bungalows and tourist flats) or vehicles.
However, the Government has considered it necessary to update the rule given the appearance in the sector of new actors and intermediaries (tour operators, digital platforms and non-professional individuals).
In this way, says the Executive, the Royal Decree approved this Tuesday adapts the regulation to the current reality and to the needs of the prevention of “threats to security, especially in the face of terrorist activity and organized crime.” Given that, in both cases, the logistics of accommodation and the acquisition or use of motor vehicles are of special relevance.
TWO COMPUTER RECORDS OF ACTIVITIES: VEHICLES AND ACCOMMODATION
With the reform introduced by this Royal Decree, tour operators and digital platforms that provide services in Spain must register in a computerized activity registry, to which they must provide information on the operations they carry out and the basic data of the client they serve.
Non-professionals who rent accommodation or vehicles to third parties are exempt from registering in the registry, but are obliged to communicate the same information about their operations and clients.
The Royal Decree provides for the creation in the Secretary of State for Security of two single centralized registries, one for accommodation and the second for vehicles, in which the data will be stored for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offenses, as to the applicable personal data protection regulations.
The Council of State, in its mandatory opinion, has validated the project, both from the perspective of its adaptation to our legal system and to community regulations, understanding that “there are public safety reasons that advise proceeding with this regulatory development to ensure an effective response to threats to citizen security from terrorist activity and organized crime “.
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