According to Advocate General’s conclusions on Case C-50/21, the limitation of the number of hire vehicles licences in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona violates freedom of establishment.
Both taxis and private hire vehicles (PHVs) carry out local private transport services and, in Spain, in the recent years, PHVs have found their way into intra-urban transport, in addition to the inter-urban transport activity they already performed. As a result, the traditional taxi model, protected from competition thanks to the State intervention, is being…