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At this time of the year we need to work doubly hard to see if we can get local authorities to adapt some sort of regulations for the carriages horse taxis prior to the main tourist season. After receiving many welfare reports over the years from different provinces because some horses were literally being worked to they collapsed. We sent our recommendations to central government and to all the regional governments in Spain to implement s some type of regulations.

They of course have put the responsibility on the local authorities who in most cases have not brought in any control for the licensing of the carriages within their towns and cities. We issued our recommendations separately to all the authorities where we had previously received welfare reports and had hoped that they would use this as a framework for the license conditions.

We ask everyone involved within local authorities who are responsible for issuing carriage taxi licenses to consider our recommendations for the coming year as we rely on your support to bring about the improvement in equine welfare which is long overdue and always on view to the general public.

DOWNLOAD THE RECOMMENDATIONS (pdf format 1.7 MB)