Easing taxi rules but UberPOP remains prohibited – Yahoo! News

Taxi Service UberPOP must adapt to the law or stop, Secretary Mansveld found in its evaluation of the current Taxi Act . However, they have to perform seven measures that the new taxi services such UberPOP easier.

According Mansveld (Infrastructure) is the current taxi policy monitors the quality of taxi transport. Through the use of private drivers offering UberPOP the customer does not guarantee the safe, reliable and affordable transportation. And so the taxi service remains prohibited

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But it can taxi entrepreneurs have made things easier, find the Secretary. This applies to both new and existing drivers. Therefore, there is the end of this year some change. So lapses include the meter duty in taxi fares for which a fixed price as offered through apps

This is Mans Velds proposals to relax the rules:.
1. Deletion of the exam for professional competence in order to obtain a business permit.
2. Abolishing the requirement for taxi drivers to be a licensed physical evidence in their car.
3. Enabling digital alternatives for the now mandatory physically present rate card in the taxi.
4. Changing mandatory giving a ritbon to the customer, possibly in digital form.
5. Deleted meter duty at fixed prices in the taxi. For all the taxi is currently subject to the obligation to use a meter. The only exception is the transportation contract. It is proposed to extend this exception to all cases where prior to the taxi a fixed price arrangement is made. . For example, by using apps

Later, the end of 2016 or in 2017, two more proposals elaborated:
6. Scrapping the requirement for taxi drivers the Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG) to renew every five years.
7. Deletion of the VOG requirement for entrepreneurs. Thus, the operator’s license could eventually disappear altogether.

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The transport via UberPOP is now offered at a lower rate than in professional taxis. This creates anger among drivers in the established world, which under current law a lot of money spent on licenses, taxi meters and other obligations.

Incidentally Mansveld sees improvement in UberPOP. She called the decision Uber to only deploy drivers who are in possession of the statutory driver card “a positive step”.

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