New law organizing sustainable mobility across Spain

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1. It recognizes the right of all citizens to a sustainable and fair mobility system, and requires public authorities to make it possible through an integrated, accessible and affordable multimodal system.
2. It creates the General System for Sustainable Mobility, with a Territorial Forum and a Superior Council to coordinate the State, autonomous communities and municipalities, plus a digital mobility data space (EDIM).
3. It approves the Document of Guidelines for Sustainable Mobility (DOMOS), a framework of guidelines and indicative objectives that binds the General State Administration; other authorities may adopt it voluntarily.
4. Municipalities with more than 20,000 residents must adopt a simplified sustainable mobility plan, and companies and public entities with workplaces of more than 200 workers (or 100 per shift) must have commuting mobility plans, negotiated with worker representation.
5. It creates the State Fund for Contribution to Sustainable Mobility (FECMO-FCPJ) to subsidize the operating costs of urban and interurban public collective transport and investment projects; subsidies may not exceed half of the operating costs.
6. New state transport infrastructure must pass a preliminary socioeconomic and environmental profitability analysis and a profitability study, with an ex post evaluation five years after entering service.
7. It regulates a controlled testing space (sandbox) for pilot innovation projects in mobility, with safeguards for participants: informed consent, right of withdrawal and promoter liability.
8. It sets a sanctioning regime with serious offenses (fines from €2,001 to €6,000) and minor ones (from €101 to €2,000), for example for providing false data to the EDIM or starting tests without admission.

Who it affects

• Municipalities with more than 20,000 residents: They must approve a simplified sustainable mobility plan within one year and review it at least every six years.
• Companies and public entities with workplaces of more than 200 workers (or 100 per shift): They must have commuting mobility plans within 24 months and prepare monitoring reports every two years.
• Municipalities and transport authorities providing urban public transport: They can receive subsidies from the new state fund for operating costs and investments, with requirements such as having a mobility plan.
• Transport operators and infrastructure managers: They must publish free, updated, open data on their services and infrastructure, and calculate the carbon footprint of their services.
• Promoters of pilot innovation projects in mobility: They can test their projects in the controlled testing space, assuming liability for damages and complying with the testing protocol.

Words worth knowing

DOMOS

Documento de Orientaciones para la Movilidad Sostenible: a framework of guidelines, objectives and indicators for planning transport and mobility sustainably.

EDIM

Espacio de Datos Integrado de Movilidad: a digital tool that gathers transport and mobility information for public authorities and, under certain conditions, for the public.

Obligación de servicio público (public service obligation)

A requirement imposed by a public authority on a transport operator to guarantee a service of general interest that, for commercial reasons, the operator would not provide, or not on the same terms, in exchange for compensation.

Espacio controlado de pruebas (sandbox)

A framework that allows pilot innovation projects in mobility to be tested under supervision, with agreed conditions and limits, without being an authorization to run the activity on a regular basis.

Zona de bajas emisiones (low-emission zone)

An urban area where the most polluting vehicles face driving restrictions to improve air quality.

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