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For Luis Alfonso Manzano , partner responsible for insurance and reinsurance at Bird and Bird Spain, “the mandatory nature of insurance remains in the background until the aforementioned Regulation is approved, which will develop it in the future. The reason for the delay in launching it is still not clear , but what the law says is that the amount of insurance must be established in a regulatory manner.
Luis Alfonso Manzano, partner responsible for insurance and reinsurance at Bird & Bird in Spain. (Photo: Bird & Bird)
From this perspective, this jurist emphasizes that “if this remains as it is and the approval of the Regulation is delayed, insurance cannot be implemented because it is not known Fax Lists what the amount for which it must be insured will be . At a time like the current one, with a Government in office, carrying out a regulatory development is very complicated from what we know in other similar situations.”
For her part, Carmen Reyes , lawyer and economist and partner at the HispaColex law firm, where she holds the position of lawyer in the Insurance Law department, emphasizes that “ the latest circular from the General Directorate of Animal Rights I already warned of this postponement . It is said that there is a lack of regulatory development as a fundamental cause for the mandatory nature of this third-party insurance for dogs to come into force.”
As he already commented to Economist & Jurist , “ there were few tools to be able to put together an insurance contract of this nature in the absence of the aforementioned regulatory development. Everything is unknown, the amount for which it is insured, what type of limitations the policy has. We recommend having this insurance because the risk still exists and must be covered. At the moment it is unknown, and even more so with the current political situation, when we will have that Regulation.”
Carmen Reyes, lawyer, economist and partner at the HispaColex law firm. (Image: E&J)
This obligation is found in article 30.3 of the standard , which establishes for the first time the obligation to have civil liability insurance for dogs at the state level. Thus, in the absence of regulatory development, the owner who does not comply with this obligation could be sanctioned with fines ranging between 500 and 10,000 euros.
Other sanctions to which dog owners are exposed have to do with not collecting the animal's excrement . Here the amount is very variable, since it depends on each city, but it is between 60 and 3,000 euros , so not picking up our dog's feces on the street will be a real disappointment.
At the same time, leaving the dog loose without supervision can cost us dearly . The new law provides for fines of 500 to 10,000 euros for leaving the dog loose unsupervised on the street, and that as long as nothing happens to it. In rural areas it is still common to open the door to the dog so that it can walk alone through the town, something that is now sanctioned with high amounts.
On the other hand, if we do not report the loss of the animal within 48 hours, it will be considered abandonment . Nowadays, it is mandatory to identify dogs with a chip, so if they are lost or stolen, the authorities must be notified within a maximum of two days. If we do not do it this way and they find it, we will be incurring a serious infraction whose fine ranges from 10,001 to 50,000 euros, which will be the same that they will apply to us if when we go out on the street they verify that our pet does not have the microchip.
Another practice that must be banned is leaving dogs inside the car, alone and locked up. It can be a minor infraction if this behavior puts you in danger (something that happens when it is sunny) and exposes us to a fine of between 500 and 10,000 euros.
Luis Alfonso Manzano, partner responsible for insurance and reinsurance at Bird & Bird in Spain. (Photo: Bird & Bird)
From this perspective, this jurist emphasizes that “if this remains as it is and the approval of the Regulation is delayed, insurance cannot be implemented because it is not known Fax Lists what the amount for which it must be insured will be . At a time like the current one, with a Government in office, carrying out a regulatory development is very complicated from what we know in other similar situations.”
For her part, Carmen Reyes , lawyer and economist and partner at the HispaColex law firm, where she holds the position of lawyer in the Insurance Law department, emphasizes that “ the latest circular from the General Directorate of Animal Rights I already warned of this postponement . It is said that there is a lack of regulatory development as a fundamental cause for the mandatory nature of this third-party insurance for dogs to come into force.”
As he already commented to Economist & Jurist , “ there were few tools to be able to put together an insurance contract of this nature in the absence of the aforementioned regulatory development. Everything is unknown, the amount for which it is insured, what type of limitations the policy has. We recommend having this insurance because the risk still exists and must be covered. At the moment it is unknown, and even more so with the current political situation, when we will have that Regulation.”
Carmen Reyes, lawyer, economist and partner at the HispaColex law firm. (Image: E&J)
This obligation is found in article 30.3 of the standard , which establishes for the first time the obligation to have civil liability insurance for dogs at the state level. Thus, in the absence of regulatory development, the owner who does not comply with this obligation could be sanctioned with fines ranging between 500 and 10,000 euros.
Other sanctions to which dog owners are exposed have to do with not collecting the animal's excrement . Here the amount is very variable, since it depends on each city, but it is between 60 and 3,000 euros , so not picking up our dog's feces on the street will be a real disappointment.
At the same time, leaving the dog loose without supervision can cost us dearly . The new law provides for fines of 500 to 10,000 euros for leaving the dog loose unsupervised on the street, and that as long as nothing happens to it. In rural areas it is still common to open the door to the dog so that it can walk alone through the town, something that is now sanctioned with high amounts.
On the other hand, if we do not report the loss of the animal within 48 hours, it will be considered abandonment . Nowadays, it is mandatory to identify dogs with a chip, so if they are lost or stolen, the authorities must be notified within a maximum of two days. If we do not do it this way and they find it, we will be incurring a serious infraction whose fine ranges from 10,001 to 50,000 euros, which will be the same that they will apply to us if when we go out on the street they verify that our pet does not have the microchip.
Another practice that must be banned is leaving dogs inside the car, alone and locked up. It can be a minor infraction if this behavior puts you in danger (something that happens when it is sunny) and exposes us to a fine of between 500 and 10,000 euros.