With a unanimous vote, seven legislators of the Committee on Economic Affairs buried the bill presented by the government to regulate the operation of Uber and other mobile transport applications in Costa Rica.
The decision was made on Wednesday afternoon after discussing the initiative of the Executive Power for two days, and a week after receiving taxi drivers to hear their complaints about Uber’s operation.
After sending the bill to the archive, the congressmen will present a new text and seek that the Legislative Plenary approve an abbreviated procedure for processing it.
The legislators of the National Liberation Party (PLN) Roberto Thompson and Karine Niño, as well as Paola Vega and Luis Ramón Carranza, from the Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC), recognized that the Executive’s initiative was technically and politically unfeasible.
The legislators will try that the new text keeps the balances between the interests of the mobile platforms of transport and those of the taxi drivers, in an atmosphere of competition. But they also study the possibility of proposing reforms to the Regulatory Law of the Public Service of Remunerated Transportation of People in Vehicles in the Taxi modality.