1,000 euros fine to a resident of Ibiza for entering with her car to Formentera

In addition, she argues that neither the shipping company with which she traveled, nor in the port of Ibiza or Formentera no one warned her that she had to enter with prior authorization from the Consell de Formentera. In all this time she claims not to have received any notice or notification from the Consell de Formentera, so that the prompt payment will have expired, although she recognizes that she has moved house and that perhaps this has caused that they have not been able to locate her. Thus, the notification has arrived to her through the Tax Agency.

It should be noted that the Consell de Formentera regulates the entry of vehicles to the island from 2019 through the project 'Formentera eco'. In fact, the website to apply for authorization to enter with your own vehicle is: formentera.eco/es. Residents with a car in their name in Ibiza (not a rented car in Ibiza or elsewhere) have free access, but first they must request the authorization and fill in all the data through that website. In a period not exceeding 24 or 48 hours, the person receives the authorization in paper in his e-mail, a document that he must keep in case he is fined because the system fails for whatever reason.

In 2022, when this Ibiza resident was fined, the vehicle entry control was in force from June 15 to September 15. The daily vehicle ceiling last year was 10,956 vehicles and an average of 955 requests were denied daily. At this point it should be recalled that year after year the Consell de Formentera is reducing the entry of vehicles more and more. Thus, its intention is that since it came into force in 2019, the ceiling of vehicular traffic on the island has been reduced by 16%.

The latest data on the regulation of vehicle entry to Formentera this year 2023 show that 58,736 applications were received, about 15,000 more than in 2022. In this season 2023, the Consell de Formentera has had about 505,000 euros of gross revenue from the regulation of entry of cars, which represents double the amount collected in the season 2022 when the figure was 264,000 euros. The average stay of vehicles this year has been 4.9 days and one-day stays have been reduced by 3%, according to data handled by the Consell de Formentera.