Learning this difference is the most important. If you are parked, you will apply national traffic regulations according to the General Circulation Regulations. So, while you are properly parked, they cannot be fine to sleep or cook inside your caravan, motorhome and camper or Rooftop Tent. On the other hand, if you are camped, you will be applied to the regulations of each autonomous community, which generally implies that you can be fine if you are not in an area enabled for it (camping areas, private camper areas or campsites). How do you decide whether you are camped or parked? That's what we are going to:
Park
Can:
- Eat or sleep inside your vehicle considering your private space as such. Put on the vehicle to prop up if the land is inclined (since it is a recommended safety element). You can alternately support a guiding wheel on the curb. In vehicles of more than 3,500 kg of maximum authorized mass if the inclination is sensitive, the footwear is mandatory. You cannot use stones or other elements.
- Raise the ceiling or open Claraboyas, provided they do not exceed the perimeter of the vehicle considering as such the space it occupies. In this case we consider our Rooftop Tent, being irrelevant that access to it occurs from inside the vehicle directly. Sleep in Rooftop Tent It is legal while the norms are respected.
You can't:
- Remove chairs or tables out of the vehicle.
- Extend your own elements such as Awnings, Advances, swing windows or own elements that overflow the perimeter of your vehicle.
- Put stabilizer legs.
- Pour fluids from clean, gray or black waters except those of the engine through the exhaust pipe.
- Issue annoying noises, such as the implementation of an electricity generator during rest hours or during the day for excessively long periods, since it can generate other situations of abuse.
Camp
If you do one or more of these prohibited things for parking, the vehicle will be camped, therefore the regional regulations on camping will be applied. Lifting the roof is camping, but only If you exceed the perimeter allowed to the sides.
On the other hand, if you are properly parked, no one can tell you that you go to a campsite, that you cannot spend the night, that the camping is prohibited, etc. Be sure to be well parked, and you will have no problem. The General Directorate of Traffic clearly establishes that you caravan or motorhome It has the same rights as any other vehicle to park permitted.
In Jovive we consider that ours Rooftop Tents They scrupulously comply with legality, so you will not have problems parking or parking where you want.
SOLUTION TO PROBLEMS WITH THE CAVAN AND CAMPERS PARKING REGULATIONS
If you find yourself in a conflicting situation (a municipality that wants to throw you out of a parking lot, for example), it is important to have solid legal arguments. The document currently including this regulation (in the absence of being included in the new General Circulation Regulation that is in preparation) is the new Prot 2023/14 instruction published in July 2023 of the General Directorate of Traffic, obligatory document, as indicated by the DGT itself in this document. We recommend printing, studying and even underlining it to take it in the glove compartment, as we do.
If they tell you that “the motorhomes, caravans, camper or you Rooftop Tent They must go to the camping ”, you can say that motorhome, caravan or Rooftop Tent It is a legal vehicle, which pays its circulation taxes and that has the right to circulate and park like any other. And if they insist, you teach you this text of the instruction Prot 2023/14 (Antique 08/V-74): “… This General Directorate of Traffic considers that as any vehicle is correctly parked, without exceed Rooftop Tent It is no exception, enough that the activity that can be carried out inside does not transcend abroad by displaying elements that overflow the perimeter of the vehicle such as tenderetes, Awnings, Leveling devices, stabilization supports, etc. "
If you tell you phrases such as: "It is that if you stay here you will throw garbage or make a fire and cause a fire," as they have once told us, you can tell you that they mulitate you when the time comes, because that is called criminalizing and discriminating to a group for presupposing that you will commit an infraction. Yes vehicle is improperly parked Cause problems and receive the corresponding sanctions, but the presumption that you are going to cause problems is not legal. Again we cite the instruction of the DGT: “The exclusion of certain users (of the public thoroughfare) must be motivated in objective reasons ... but not for subjective reasons ». The always public roads They must be accessible to all legally parked vehicles.
We recommend you maintain a low profile in your relationship with the agent of the authority that is being addressed to you, since there is due obedience towards it. The sanctions can be from a basic fine of 40 euros to one of 150 euros. There is the possibility of receiving another sanction yes exceeds limited signals or if it occupies more than one Square meter of the vehicle allowed in parking. If you are parked in You can receive beaches Specific fines according to coastal regulations. Remember that if you are Badly parked the euros for fines They can vary According to the town.
If despite the reasoning, the sanction will occur, We can guide you in your resource options and get in touch with a professional.
We attach this poster so you can print and put in your motorhome, caravan, camper or Rooftop Tent.
