The company Last Lap, organizer of the San Silvestre Vallecana, has paid 9,600 euros of fine for requesting the COVID passport, or complementary PCR test before the race, to all the participants who registered in its last edition, on December 31, 2021.
The fine has been imposed by the Spanish Agency for Data Protection (AEPD), which has agreed with ‘Liberum’, a citizen association created expressly to “restore rights and freedoms” since the COVID pandemic that filed a complaint on January 31.
Last Lap violated articles 6 and 9.2 of the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD). An athletics event does not appear as an exception to requesting these data. In this way, San Silvestre should not have requested this information as they did not have competitions even though their competition rules included said clause.
Thus, the AEPD confirmed that the claimed party proceeded to pay the penalty “in the amount of 9,600 euros, making use of the two reductions provided for in the Initial Agreement transcribed above, which implies the acknowledgment of responsibility.
“The payment made, within the period granted to formulate allegations at the opening of the procedure, entails the waiver of any action or appeal in administrative proceedings against the sanction and acknowledgment of responsibility in relation to the facts referred to in the Initiation Agreement”, states the resolution.