{"id":19780,"date":"2026-06-08T15:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/19780\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T15:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:41:12","slug":"spain-fury-over-the-failure-of-the-traveller-registration-scheme-criticised-by-brussels-mallorca-never-wanted-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/19780\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain fury over the failure of the traveller registration scheme criticised by Brussels: Mallorca never wanted it"},"content":{"rendered":"

The far-right Vox group on the Council of Mallorca<\/a> has called for political accountability from the central government following the European Commission\u2019s decision to launch infringement proceedings against the Spanish state over the regulations governing traveller registration.<\/p>\n

The party considers that the proceedings opened by Brussels<\/a> represent a forceful challenge to regulations promoted by the Ministry of the Interior which have created legal uncertainty, unnecessary bureaucratic burdens and serious harm to thousands of tourism<\/a> businesses in Mallorca, the Balearics<\/a> and throughout Spain<\/a>, they stated in a press release.<\/p>\n

Vox also recalled that, when the Spanish government announced the introduction of the new traveller register, it had already tabled a motion in the Council of Mallorca calling for it not to be implemented and demanding the suspension of regulations it considered harmful to the tourism sector, an invasion of citizens\u2019 privacy and a source of unjustified bureaucratic burden for hotels<\/a>, tourist accommodation providers and travel agencies.<\/p>\n

The party argued at the time that the measure posed a new obstacle to the competitiveness of an industry of strategic importance to Mallorca and warned of potential conflicts with European data protection regulations \u2013 warnings that are now fully vindicated by the European Commission\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n

Vox has pointed out that the main business organisations in the tourism sector, including the Mallorca Hotel Business Federation (FEHM) and the Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodation (Cehat), have been warning for years that Royal Decree 933\/2021 imposed excessive obligations that were incompatible with European data protection regulations, warnings that have now been backed by the European Commission.<\/p>\n

Vox\u2019s deputy spokesperson on the Council of Mallorca, David Gil, stated that the investigation<\/a> opened by Brussels confirms what business owners, hoteliers, travel agencies and numerous legal experts have been denouncing for years. \u201cPedro S\u00e1nchez\u2019s government legislated behind the sector\u2019s back and in breach of basic principles of European law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Gil added that Vox had already warned of this problem when the government announced the launch of the traveller register. \u201cBrussels has proved us right and exposed a government that chose to impose its ideological agenda rather than listen to the professionals and businesses affected,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Vox considers it particularly serious that a regulation directly affecting Mallorca\u2019s main economic activity was pushed through without listening to those who generate employment<\/a>, wealth<\/a> and prosperity on the islands.<\/p>\n

\u2018When Brussels opens infringement proceedings over a regulation of this nature, someone must take responsibility. It is not enough simply to correct the mistake. We need to explain why the warnings from the tourism sector were ignored for so long and why the competitiveness of our businesses was put at risk,\u2019 concluded Gil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The far-right Vox group on the Council of Mallorca has called for political accountability from the central government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[9192,18,12457,4720,1573,3902,12574,1009,5831,8017,2344,116,52,54,9459],"class_list":["post-19780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-balearics","tag-brussels","tag-data-protection-spain","tag-employment","tag-far-right","tag-holiday","tag-hotels","tag-investigation","tag-latest-headlines","tag-majorca","tag-mallorca","tag-spain","tag-tourism","tag-travel","tag-wealth"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116715250425886087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}