Qiyah: The transfer of people by adopting “smart applications” violates Moroccan laws

Abdul Samad Qayyouh, Minister of Transport and Logistics, renewed the government’s view regarding transportation by adopting smart applications, stressing that “providing transportation services by adopting modern digital applications and media without a license is an activity in violation of the laws and regulations in force,” noting that practitioners are available for transport ”on special licenses for each vehicle that is used for this purpose.

Qayyouh pointed out, in an answer to a question about the subject, which was submitted by Khadija Arhhal on the progress team of progress and socialism in the House of Representatives, that “the legal and regulatory requirements in force in our country in the field of road transportation for persons, especially the honorable back of 1963 regarding car transport via roads through roads, stipulates the mandatory of the road transport service providers for persons directed to the public to a prior license to practice this activity.”

The government official continued in his answer, which was seen by Hespress: “In the context of downloading the ministry’s work strategy to develop a comprehensive and sustainable transfer system, the Ministry launched the completion of a study related to the preparation of a national charter for sustainable and comprehensive movement development,” recording that “the charter aims to set the basic principles and goals that the future system of the mobility and transportation in our country must be built.”

The Minister of Transport pointed out that “among the issues that this charter will address, determining how to deal with these new methods of movement in Morocco, especially within the urban orbit, in coordination with the competent departments of the Ministry of Interior and the actors concerned in order to take all necessary measures to impose respect for the legal requirements in force in this regard.”

He added: “We do not miss the indication that this ministry remains open to contribute to studying the proposals submitted to respond to the contracting contracting in the sector and providing transportation services by adopting smart applications.” Stressing that this is “in a framework that takes into account the respect of the legal and regulatory rulings in force in this field and guarantees the security and safety of the accompanying people with observance of the honorable competition between professionals and workers in public transportation For people. ”

It should be noted that the Minister’s interaction with the deputy from the “Al -Kitab” team, Khadija Arhhal, comes in advance of the elements of the answer written on the interventions of the deputies, according to the works of the Basic, Energy, Minerals and Environment Committee, held on Tuesday, January 21, 2025 on “the rehabilitation of transportation of all its types in the horizon of the bets awaited by Morocco.”

While Moroccans are betting on the rehabilitation of transportation by smart applications as the best option, Abdel -Wafi Laftit, the Minister of the Interior, pledged weeks before the advisors of the second parliamentary room, to work to “find solutions jointly in the nearest deadlines for the taxi crisis and transportation of applications,” stressing that “the existence of the latter or only the traditional models of managing taxis through the system of the authorities cannot be ignored.”

Littit revealed, considering his ministry as a key and pivotal party in the issue of urban transport, that it is currently “the necessary studies” in this context, noting the advisers and Moroccans that “soon we will come to sit and find solutions with each other to apply smart methods that allow the citizen with a good benefit from transport services within cities.”