operador de TVDE
Published 6 November 2026, 09:07
operador de TVDE — an app-based ride-hailing operator
A company licensed by the IMT that the driver works under and that the car is registered to. An individual cannot be an operator: by law, only a legal entity can. So a driver either works for someone else's operator or sets up their own company — on 5 August 2026 the IMT list had 24,604 operators, and more than half of them were unipessoal, that is, one-person companies.
Where you come across it. The licence costs €200, a decision must be made within 30 working days, and silence counts as approval. The company's articles of association must include the activity code CAE 49330.
Since 1 September 2026 the licence has been issued for no more than five years (it used to be up to ten), and you apply to renew it six months in advance. The contract between operator and driver must always be in writing, and if the work is organised like employment, the presumption of an employment contract under Article 12 of the Labour Code applies, whatever the document is called.