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On the 8th of May, 2019, in the case “Yovino, Augusto sobre 6.1.49 – Requisitos de los vehículos de transporte de carga y de pasajeros”, (CAU 3107/2019-0), No. 7 Criminal and Infractions Court acquitted an Uber driver. This ruling was based on the understanding that: (i) there is no specific regulation in CABA regarding transportation services using applications; (ii) the substantive laws currently in force (such as the Civil and Commercial Code of the Nation) allow this type of transportation; (iii) when transportation and infringement regulations were modified it was expressly decided to neither regulate nor prohibit the service; (iv) in CABA, there is no principle of prohibition which only allows activities (of whichever nature) that are expressly permitted to take place (since that contradicts Article 19 of the National Constitution), meaning that a lack of regulation does not equate to prohibition; (v) those who drive using the Uber application do not provide a taxi or remis (private taxi) service, therefore one cannot resort to an analogy, extending the usual applicable rules for these other services to Uber.

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