The courts 558 sanctions have lying imposed by the Madrid City Council in its low -broadcast areas. The figure represents 97% success in the judicial resources presented by conductors through the platform provided by the dove. Since the Justice of Madrid annulled several of the articles From the Sustainable Mobility Ordinance in 2024, the legality of the Fines System of the Zbe of the capital is questioned.
Judicial failure. Only in 2025, the Consistory has accumulated 383 unfavorable sentencesof which 224 included condemnation in procedural coasts, which represents almost 60% of cases. Of all cancellations, 60% corresponds to the Centro District ZBE, 25% to Madrid Zbe and 15% to Elliptical Plaza. Each of these sanctions has a minimum amount of 200 euros.
Two reasons. Courts support their decisions on two legal pillars. First, the City Council does not comply with article 242 of the Sustainable Mobility Ordinance, which requires “documenting the installation of visible informative posters that warn about the collection of data or images for access control.” In no case, the Consistory has been able to demonstrate the existence of such regulatory signage, which has caused the cancellation of sanctions.
The cancellation of the legal framework. THE SECOND Pilar: The Superior Court of Justice of Madrid annulled The part of the Mobility Ordinance relative to the ZBE, leaving without legal base all the sanctions issued under that regulatory framework. This nullity assumes that the fines lack legal basis by being supported by a regulation canceled by the courts. Despite this, the Madrid City Council He has resorted This decision and continues to sanction.
A fundamental fund machine. Madrid foresee Collect this year more than 208 million euros in traffic fines, of which approximately 110 million come from the ZBE. This means that more than half of the proceeds in fines by the Madrid town hall comes from the sanctions in these areas. The figure makes Madrid the Spanish city that enters the most for this concept, raising 3.5 times more That Barcelona, the second on the list. Of the ten cities with the largest population in Spain, Madrid is the most fine.
“I despise for legality.” Pedro Javaloyes, Dvuelta spokesman, affirms that this implies “the contempt for the legality and rights of citizens by the Consistory.” “The courts are stopping the city council systematically for the massive and unjustified use of Zbe fines,” he adds. “Not only is there a normative abuse: there is a clear collection intention, at the expense of the drivers, that justice is dismantling sentence.”
It is worth resorting to fines. Resorting to these sanctions is becoming what Javaloyes define as “a civic reaction” that “balances the balance between an administration that tends to turn the fine into a collection instrument and a citizen who, otherwise, would be helpless,” he said. For its part, the Madrid town hall assures that Zbe are necessary to meet the air quality objectives. Also remember that the cancellation of the TSJM It is appealedso until the Supreme Court does not apply any other action, the fines will continue.
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