📋 Tender Overview
The Council of Ministers will approve this Tuesday March 18 the Royal Decree that transposes the European Directive by which the criteria for calculating the taxes and bonuses for the use of road infrastructure that in no case implies the implementation of new tolls in the states road network are established.
AP-4 between Seville and Cadiz (EFE)
The Government rules out any possibility of taking measures to expand or modify payment for use on highways highways or conventional roads. The approval of this text does not imply the creation of new tolls the introduction of a tarification system other than the current one or tarify some type of vehicle or the use of new infrastructure. 4 out of 10 km of state highways have become free having released 1029 km of the existing 2530 km ending the trend of systematic extensions to reach a more territorially balanced road financing model. AP-68 to improve their functionality and compensate for recurring users and we also work to apply bonuses in the AP-53.De 2018 users of the AP-9 have been saved more than 330 million euros those of the AP-66 46.8 million euros and those of the AP-68 92 million euros. Possibility of internalizing congestion and external costs due to CO2 emissions. In existing toll highways concessions however nothing must be done since for these the environmental criteria are not applied. In the case of hypothetical new concessions in the tender of the contract that these criteria must be established in accordance with what the board establishes. Seitts highways have already started working to comply with the regulations with the agreements of the Council of Ministers of December 3 2025 and follows it. They are the only ones in fact that they must accommodate their situation to this European directive. The directive establishes the obligation to eliminate gradually and with exceptions the vignette system for heavy vehicles. The top date is 2030 and its elimination for light vehicles is not contemplated. The impact of the regulation of the vignettes in Spain however is void because this tax on our roads is not implanted. The regulation of discount regimes in the modified directive for heavy vehicles is identical to the previous one. For light vehicles the regulation is identical to that of the heavy ones but assumptions are contemplated to make a more flexible regime such as toll reductions for frequent users which are not contemplated for heavy. using the same criteria used so far in the new ones that can be applied from the approval of the Royal Decree. Article 1 of Directive (EU) 2022/362 of the European Parliament and the Council of February 24 2022 is transposed by the Royal Decree that establishes the criteria for the determination of the encumbrances of its exemptions and reductions and its application to the vehicles Integrated infrastructure in the state road network.
