The Commercial Court No. 2 Madridha estimated the measures back requested by the Madrid Association of Taxi and ordered the cessation of the activity of Uber, in the form UberPop, throughout the national territory because their drivers lack authorization to develop some administrative work and activity that perform supposed deslea competition l.
With this decision, the judge prohibits a precautionary measure that transport services are offered online by of drivers employed by that company to be unfair competition. The judge also estimated prohibit access and services through the website of the company and its app .
The decision comes after the Association Taxi Madrid request for protective measures against Uber. The judge stated in the provision is not a matter of philosophical debate about free markets in general and the cooperative economy in particular, but a precautionary protection based on the law.
President Professional Taxi Federation of Madrid, Julio Sanz , said that “finally someone put some sanity ” in this case. In his opinion, Judge precautionary measures are “good news” and “we must congratulate all taxi drivers”. Sanz has also shown its full “satisfaction” with the judge’s decision, which has “a contudente answer “.
In addition, the court notes that the law of unfair competition determines when rules are required to act in a market are infringed, the infringement is itself an unfair action.
The measures back taken by the Commercial Court No. 2 of Madrid has been taken without listen to the company Uber for the damage being caused to the owners of taxi service and because, as noted in the car, the company is address “in the US tax haven Delaware ” and “is presented as the notorious media with a liberated opacity vocation.”
Also here, the decision of the judge asks telcos (such as Jazztel, Movistar, Ono, Euskaltel, Orange and Vodafone) and electronic payment (Servired, 4B, Visa, Mastercard, Paypal …) to prohibit all transactions and Uber property to the company.
The decision of the Commercial Court No. 2 of Madrid known only a day after the Netherlands declaring the application of Uber for mobile phones. A court in The Hague has banned the use of the application and its UberPop service and has set fines of 100,000 euros if you breach this order. A decision chelates company has said it will appeal.
Last October, the Madrid opened disciplinary administrative proceedings against Uber after the company failed to submit the administrative license start business.
So far, the mobile application was operating in the cities of Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia. Alex Droulers, Uber spokesman, told this newspaper in September that under current legislation, the application is “legal”.
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